The 2022 Ignatius Farm New Farmer Training Program is FREE for everyone! This program is a project of Employment Ontario and is funded in part by the Canadian Government and the Ontario Government, and is a collaboration between the Ignatius Jesuit Centre, EFAO, Everdale and the National Farmers Union Ontario.

*Funding stipulations require participants to fill out a pdf registration form, which you will receive upon registration for this event. Data will be collected and handled by Ignatius Jesuit Centre and the NFU -O and will be treated as confidential and only shared with the funding agency.

Neither EFAO nor Everdale will view, handle or store any of the information in this form.

Keeping Sheep:

Interested in keeping sheep? Join Brenda Hsueh as she talks us through starting a sheep farm, as well as the challenges and benefits of integrating sheep into a vegetable farm.

Brenda and her family run Black Sheep Farm; an organic farm producing vegetables for CSA members and raising sheep on pasture for lamb meat, fiber products, and tanned lambskins. A recording of this webinar will be available.

Speaker: Brenda Hsueh, Black Sheep farm