Call #3: Interviewing For Your Best Candidate
Design an interview process that will reveal the skill level, motivation and aptitude of applicants and determine if they are right for your operation. We’ll share great questions that lead to thorough responses regarding experience and motivation. What questions can’t be asked, for legal reasons? How do you find out what you most need to know? And how do you select your finalists?
Call #4: January 16, 7 a.m. | Jan 21, 12 p.m.
Expectations Explained: Yours and Theirs
You’ve chosen your apprentice and are preparing for their arrival. How do you set clear expectations of job responsibilities, days off, work schedules, team meetings, and your workplace culture? Writing an apprenticeship agreement, creating a skills list, and setting clear boundaries at the beginning can support a successful apprenticeship.
This winter, Good Meat Project and Quivira Coalition are joining forces to offer you a free, four-part virtual marketing workshop series to help take the guesswork out of your branding and marketing strategies.
Topics will include: honing your brand, building a marketing plan, social media/newsletter strategies, assessing sales channels, and much more. These live sessions will also include real-time problem solving and Q&As with marketing experts.
Call #5: February 11, 12 p.m. | Feb 13, 7 a.m.
Connecting Work and Education
How do you structure the workday, week, and month so that priorities are established, and both work and education happen? Strategies shared include weekly planning meetings, how to find those ‘teachable moments’ during a workday, and ways to do up-front training to get your apprentice going and maintain focus, communication and motivation in the busy season.
Call #6: March 11, 12 p.m. | March 13, 7 a.m.
Sustaining Apprentice Motivation
Apprentice motivation can falters a few months in. We’ll discuss ways to co-create apprentice goals that take advantage of the built-in learning at your operation, and ways to keep that momentum going through the season, including identifying apprentice solo study, local resource people to learn from, and visiting other operations. Skill sheets are great prompts for this so we’ll discuss ways to make them truly effective and useful to you and your apprentice.
Join us in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 3-4, 2025 for the NMCEWL annual summit, co-presented with the Institute of American Indian Arts Land Grants Program. We are excited to bring focus to the importance of relationship- and tool-building for New Mexico producers.
Are you a land steward interested in federal programs to help you get started or to support a project on your farm or ranch? Have you been curious about how to create compost that you can apply to your land? Have you looked at a USDA grant application and not known where to start? Join us for two days of workshops on the Diné College campus in Tsaile, AZ, and get more information on how to access USDA resources and build an aerated static compost pile.
Are you interested in learning more about soil erosion and how to mitigate it? Join us to learn how to identify types of erosion, read the landscape to assess where the origin of erosion problems might be occurring, and how to easily build affordable structures that help control eroding water flow and increase water infiltration.
Call #7: April 22, 12 p.m. | April 24, 7 a.m.
Feedback to Feed Forward
Actionable feedback catalyzes learning and motivation by correcting errors while looking ahead to further development. We’ll share a variety of tried and true methods for productive feedback conversations both scheduled and impromptu, as well as how to get feedback to help you grow as a mentor.
