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Stella Gardens Farm Management Apprenticeship

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute- East Troy, Wisconsin

Stella Gardens is a certified organic, hands-on training farm that instructs students in vegetable, herb and flower production at Michael Fields in the New Farmer Foundation Year and Whole Farm Workshops.

Stella Gardens includes:

• 1-acre of raised beds planted in the French-intensive method and are worked by hand

• 2-acres of semi-mechanized production

• Soil building green manures and cover-crops are incorporated throughout the land in production

• Greenhouses supplement the gardens, extend the growing season and enable students to learn plant propagation

• Perennial Fruit Production

• Biodynamic preparations applied

The remaining acres of Michael Fields Agricultural Institute includes:

• Research for an open-pollinated corn breeding program;

• Integrated cropping systems with forage crops;

• Organic vegetable production for the wholesale and retail markets;

• Small grain rotations and pasture, much of which is leased to an outside organic dairy operation;

• Twenty-acres of wooded buffer strips;

• Woods and wetland areas

Read more Stella Gardens Outdoor Classroom.pdf

For further details please refer to Farm & Food Overview Chart and contact Janet Gamble, MFAI Farm & Food Director at .

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is a public, non-profit institute for education and research in sustainable agriculture, which admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin.