Online Agroforestry Courses

Are you ready to grow your farming knowledge?

Our online agroforestry courses focus on key tree crops and practices, marketing, land access and finances, agroecology, and climate change.

Each course features multimedia lessons with video and audio with all you need to dig deep into each subject.  The self-paced courses can be taken individually or in sequence.

AGROFORESTRY TRAININGS

FOR NATURAL RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS

This agroforestry training program is custom designed for individuals like you who work with land managers, with the goal of helping you expand your knowledge of agroforestry to better serve your clients and community. Six courses offer a deep-dive into key agroforestry topics: forest farming, silvopasture, and alley cropping and more. 

Climate-Smart Agriculture:

STEM Teacher Training

Are your students asking about climate change? This STEM Teacher Training equips educators with the tools they need to teach climate science and agricultural solutions for high school and middle school classrooms. A self-paced online course developed by the Savanna Institute.

GROW YOUR AGROFORESTRY KNOWLEDGE

LOOKING TO EXPAND
YOUR TREE CROP SYSTEMS SKILLS?

LearnAgroforestry.com is a learning tool developed by the Savanna Institute and partners to support a new generation of agroforesters and conservation professionals. The site launches this month with online courses for STEM educators and natural resource professionals who want to build their skills in teaching sustainable farming. The self-paced, multimedia lessons dig deep into each agroforestry topic, and can be taken as a compliment to on-farm learning opportunities available each season.

Free Courses

 

Out-of-Stock Notice: The Savanna Institute regularly updates course content to ensure the most recent and relevant resources are included. Online courses are currently going through updates and not available for purchase. See our collection on LearnAgroforestry.com for the latest course offerings from the Savanna Institute and its partners.

Agroforestry Foundations

The Agroforestry Foundations course is designed to introduce you to a diversity of agroforestry practices, financial arrangements, farm designs and business models while helping you reflect on your own personal values and goals.

Social Justice and Agroforestry

For many people, at least part of their interest lies in being an active participant in an agricultural system that is more environmentally regenerative, economically viable, and socially responsible than the current dominant US agricultural system. Creating a more regenerative and equitable agricultural system through agroforestry, however, requires us to recognize and address the injustices that have led to, and continue to shape, the current system.

Take an Introductory Online Course

Courses $40/each

Perennial Crops and Practices in Agroforestry

Planning prior to starting an agroforestry practice or system is essential for long-term sustainability. In the Agroforestry Foundations course, we started thinking about all the aspects that need to be considered to help us plan our agroforestry project, and in this course, we take a much deeper dive into planning for agroforestry, land access options and resources, and finance options and resources.

Managing Agroforestry Systems in a Changing Climate

All ecosystems are complex, including agroforestry systems. They are made up of many organisms interacting with each other and their environment. Through observing and understanding how ecosystems function, people can work with natural processes to design and manipulate ecosystems for desired benefits in ways that are sustainable, resilient, and even regenerative. In this course, we dive into these fundamentals of agroforestry management. In Lesson 1, we discuss how biodiversity is essential to agroforestry systems and ways that practitioners maintain biodiversity in agroforestry systems. In Lesson 2, we explore how climate change is affecting agricultural ecosystems and how agroforestry can contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Land Access and Finances in Agroforestry

Planning prior to starting an agroforestry practice or system is essential for long-term sustainability. In the Agroforestry Foundations course, we started thinking about all the aspects that need to be considered to help us plan our agroforestry project, and in this course, we take a much deeper dive into planning for agroforestry, land access options and resources, and finance options and resources.

Marketing in Agroforestry

If selling at least one product or generating income is a goal of your agroforestry practice, then, it’s important to consider how you will market the product(s) you want to sell. Agricultural marketing includes all the activities producers do in order to promote and sell products to consumers.  In this module, we will review the basic elements of marketing and how to create a marketing plan for an agroforestry enterprise.

Become an Agroforestry Apprentice

Each summer the Savanna Institute runs an on-farm agroforestry apprenticeship program. This program pairs beginning farmers with experienced agroforesters for 10 weeks of hand-on training and mentoring. Program participants also join an online course and travel to area farms as a cohort to build their network and gain exposure to the wide range of agroforestry practices present across the Midwest.

 

 

Sponsor an Apprentice!

Your gift could provide experience and technical education for aspiring farmers through on-farm training with a mentor farmer and community building opportunities for farmers, apprentices, and those interested in incorporating trees on farmland.