This beginner-friendly class at Eureka Organic Farm in Springfield Vermont will cover how to safely operate a tractor, choosing the right tractor for your farm’s needs, basic maintenance and troubleshooting, understanding attachments and their uses, and key safety practices to prevent accidents. Open to all, this class is designed specifically for women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC farmers who want to build confidence and practical skills with tractors. Sliding scale fee. Advance registration required.
This class is designed for anyone who will be working on or around tractors in a vegetable farm setting. This is a one-time basics class running 1-2 hours for new farmers and farm interns to help you understand why tractors can be dangerous, and how to work around tractors safely. Springfield, VT. $35, advance registration required.
Gain practical solutions to common regulatory and legal questions related to supervising and supporting employees with disabilities at this 90-minute webinar presented by Farm Commons. The session will include time for Q&A and discussion among participants. Free but advance registration is required.
This day of networking and learning for livestock producers includes "High Stakes Communication on the Farm," an interactive, skill-building session focusing on effective communication and its benefits in high stakes farm business situations. Other sessions include presentations on grazing related research, farmer experiences with NoFence with goats and beef cattle and bale grazing, and an introduction to Vermont's new grazing worksheet and how to use it for grazing related funding programs.
Labor-Movement's nine-month Farm Movement Advocate Training will guide farms in developing a farm-level movement health and injury prevention program that fits your farm's culture. Labor-Movement's team of industry experts in athletic performance, functional movement, psychology, and agriculture sustainability will work with cohort participants to develop internal resources and systems to help protect a vital part of every farm: your crew.
The TEAMs program provides current and aspiring farm managers with practical leadership and management skills they can use in their everyday work. This online series was created in partnership with farm managers - who are also co-trainers on each of the four sessions - and is full of practical examples and opportunities for farmers to learn with and from one another.
Winter is the perfect time of year to step back, reflect and learn how to better care for our physical and mental health. Join this unique, virtual series for woman-identifying farmers to connect and learn together on key elements of body mechanics.
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.
Maintain your summer strength over the winter, and build on it! Individualized programming to suit your needs and meet you at your current capacity and skill level. Offered in person in person in Maine and virtually via the Trainheroic App with monthly check-ins via Zoom.
After a busy summer season, take some time this fall to step back, reflect and learn how to better care for our physical and mental health. Join this unique, virtual series for woman-identifying farmers to connect and learn together on key elements of body mechanics.
Location: The Rocks Tree Farm, Bethlehem, NH. This immersive and hands-on learning opportunity is designed to help participants hone skills in areas of chainsaw and tractor safety, operation, and maintenance.
Starting in 2024, many small businesses, including farms, are required to comply with new Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) filing requirements. Not sure if this applies to your business? Join this upcoming online workshop, hosted with expert business advisors from @NHSBDC, to learn all the details and ask your questions live!
Learn better body mechanics and movement patterns in order to decrease injury potential, increase efficiency and extend career longevity. The same workshop will be offered at Sweet Beet Farm in Bradford, NH on May 29 and at Tuckaway Farm in Lee, NH on May 30.
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.
