Youth Farm Training

Farming is a skill and a future

Teenagers from our community who are out of school learn modern farming in our fields, then leave with a starter kit to begin on their own.

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A young farmer in green overalls holding two cabbages in a cabbage field

How the training works

Hands-on agri-education that shows farming is a skill and a livelihood worth choosing.

  1. 01

    Learn in the fields

    Young people work alongside the farm team on the crops and animals we raise: matooke, maize, huitlacoche and cattle.

  2. 02

    Learn in public

    Thomas films the wins and the failures, because farmers learn fastest when they learn in public. The trainees learn from our feed as well as our fields.

  3. 03

    Start on their own

    Each young farmer leaves with a starter kit to begin farming for themselves. To confirm: what the starter kit includes.

Young farmers at work

Harvesting, weeding and breaking new ground on the community farm.

Two young men filling a large sack with freshly cut green matooke on a hillside
A woman bent over a hoe weeding a hillside of groundnut plants, with others working further up the slope
A young man in a red football shirt leaning on a banana plant in the matooke plantation
A smiling young farmer in green overalls with a hoe over his shoulder in a freshly dug field

Two ways to help

Back the training, or come and farm alongside the young people yourself.

Support the training

Help us train more young people and send each one home ready to farm.

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Visit and volunteer

Spend time on the farm and work in the fields with the trainees.

Visit & volunteer →