Build resilience & flexibility for farming in the long-run. Learn how to take care of your body and set up systems on the farm to support your whole farm crew's health.
We have maxed the registrations for this April Retreat but are excited to be able to offer the same series again in November, 2024 and January 2025. Visit the main Farm Labor Dashboard "Events" page for details and grab your spot!
Women-centered "Learning Circles” celebrate a peer-based learning model that works exceptionally well with women farmers, bringing together small groups to share and learn from each other. Refreshingly different from typical webinar lecture formats, these well-received participatory sessions draw on discussion and shared learning and support between each other.
Women-centered "Learning Circles” celebrate a peer-based learning model that works exceptionally well with women farmers, bringing together small groups to share and learn from each other. Refreshingly different from typical webinar lecture formats, these well-received participatory sessions draw on discussion and shared learning and support between each other.
Participants will explore what negotiation is - and is not, and learn how to prepare for and execute a successful negotiation, and how to preserve relationships when the negotiation is not successful.
Women-centered "Learning Circles” celebrate a peer-based learning model that works exceptionally well with women farmers, bringing together small groups to share and learn from each other. Refreshingly different from typical webinar lecture formats, these well-received participatory sessions draw on discussion and shared learning and support between each other.
Explore ways farm owners and managers can bring out the best in their employees, and learn about tools that can help establish consistent expectations, support supervision, and help your farm to be in legal compliance.
This interactive session will explore strategies to create the farm culture needed to effectively hire and retain the right employees for your farm. We'll also introduce tools and resources to help with job descriptions, interviewing, organizational charts that support those efforts.
In this 3-part online workshop, we will use the DiSC Workplace Profile, to help you identify your preferred work styles and environment, and explore how those preferences can guide strategies to being an effective leader/manager, managing conflict and building strong and productive work teams. In this 3-part online workshop, we will use the DiSC Workplace Profile, to help you identify your preferred work styles and environment, and explore how those preferences can guide strategies to being an effective leader/manager, managing conflict and building strong and productive work teams. There is a participant fee for this workshop, and advance registration is required.
Attend this online workshop on Jan. 9 to learn about simple tools to help you calculate the cost of hired workers and prepare to have the resources on hand to meet payroll needs throughout the year. Optional "office hours" on Jan. 12 with University of Wisconsin farm viability specialist John Hendrickson to answer your individual follow-up questions.
