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Mentor Training Call #6 – Mentoring to Create a Self Starter Apprentice
Mentor Training Call #6: Mentoring to Create a Self Starter Apprentice A great mentor-apprentice experience depends on both parties co-creating relevant goals that take advantage of the built-in learning at your operation, and identify ways your apprentice can engage...
Mentor Training Call #5 – Balancing Work and Education
Mentor Training Call #5: Balancing Work and Education How do you structure the workday, week, and month so that work is done and education happens? Mentors share strategies including weekly planning meetings, how to find those ‘teachable moments’ during a workday, and...
Mentor Training Call #4 – Setting Expectations
Mentor Training Call #4: Setting Expectations 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...
Episode 6 – From Lifelong Land Stewardship to Ecological Architecture – Internships as a Vehicle to Stewardship Dreams
From Lifelong Land Stewardship to Ecological Architecture – Internships as a Vehicle to Stewardship Dreams Quivira Coalition occasionally hosts interns, often for summer projects and occasionally for longer-term projects. Meet two of Quivira’s interns in...
Episode 105 – Growing pecans in the desert? Yes—with regenerative ag practices
Soil microbiologist David Johnson has been collaborating with pecan farmer Josh Bowman to cultivate healthy soil that retains water and produces a more abundant—and more profitable—harvest. Josh in turn works with other growers to help them improve their operations.
Collaboration: Overcome Obstacles, Build Bridges, and Resolve Conflicts – a Workshop with Anne Lightsey
Collaboration and conflict resolution is a key component of work – whether within a family agricultural operation or two agencies working together. There are tools to effective communication that can be learned and practiced that can build trust and improve...
Episode 104 – Got goat? The Vanguard Ranch does, and it’s ready to eat
Renard Turner and his wife are agrarian entrepreneurs who produce local, sustainable, regenerative food at their Virginia goat farm–and they provide a model for future farmers and homesteaders.
Kate Zeigler
Geologist, Zeigler Geologic Consulting
