Carbon Farm Planning
Course Dates: Four weeks, Spring 2025, June 18- July 12
Dates for the next session to be announced.
Registration Deadline: This deadline has passed. The next deadline to be announced.
Faculty: Carbon Cycle Institute (CCI)
Description:
To meet the growing demand for training of technical service providers to assist producers in carbon farm planning CCI works with the Colorado State University COMET team(opens in new window) to develop an on-line, multi-module carbon farm planning education Curriculum designed to be paired with a guided training with the CCI Staff.
Carbon Farming is a whole farm approach to optimizing carbon capture on working landscapes by implementing practices that are known to improve the rate at which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere and stored in plant material and/or soil organic matter. Carbon Farming is a framework for engaging with the agroecosystem processes that drive system change. Carbon farming explicitly recognizes that it is solar energy that drives farm ecosystem dynamics and that carbon is the carrier of that energy within the farm system. Carbon farming is synonymous with the term ”regenerative agriculture” when that term refers to the underlying system dynamics and feedback processes that make a “regenerative” upward spiral of soil fertility and farm productivity possible.
This class is available to be taken singly for continuing education purposes or general interest. It may be taken as an elective in the Technical Assistance Provider Certification Program(opens in new window).
Applications(opens in new window) through CCI will be accepted until May 14th. They will be reviewed and selections will be made on the 19th. There is limited space available so don't delay!
Applications are now closed.