N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Orange County Center and the Orange County Economic Development Commission have announced that the fourth annual PLANT (People Learning Agriculture Now for Tomorrow) Farm Incubator Workshop Series will begin Jan. 5.
The workshop series trains beginning farmers to serve the developing market for local-food production in the Triangle. The three-hour workshops are held eight consecutive weeks in January and February.
The workshops cover a broad range of topics of importance to beginning farmers. Classes are taught by experienced market farmers, university professors, extension agents and others involved in the local-food system.
For more information, call 245-2063. The program application is available online at orangecountyfarms.org/PLANTatBreeze.asp