Agriculture Enterprise Project

Catalog description

Students will gain practical field experience in vegetable or horticultural crop production. Projects may be developed with an emphasis on organic or conventional production systems. Working cooperatively in small groups, students will learn to develop a small scale production plan and complete the entire production cycle. Field projects will include exposure to the entire range of field operations: ground preparation, planting, irrigation, fertility management, pest management, and harvest. Greenhouse projects will include exposure to a complete cycle of greenhouse operations: planting, climate control systems, irrigation systems, fertility management, pest management, and sale or harvest of the finished crop. Designed for students with a high level of commitment to agriculture. [CSU] ADVISORY: Students should have some basic familiarity with safe farming practices.