Commercial Growers Short Course - Application form

1. Contact details

First Name

Last Name

Street Address

City

Postal Code

Phone Number

Your preferred pronoun

Your preferred pronoun - other

2. Are you currently?

Employed

Unemployed

Retired

Studying

A carer

Other

Are you currently? Other

3. Please tell us a little bit about your present situation and any relevant projects you are involved with or time commitments you have?

4. Growing Experience & Knowledge

4.a. How would you rank your current commercial food growing skills & knowledge?

4.b. Please describe any previous food growing experience

Including area cultivated, crop types, growing methods, the use of produce, markets etc.

5. What skills and knowledge do you hope to gain from this course?

- Running a food growing business:

- Market gardening and protected growing:

- Field-scale vegetable production:

- Organic growing methods and certification standards:

- Plant propagation and salad leaf production:

- Building and maintaining soil fertility:

- Pests and diseases:

- An introduction to machinery:

6. Are there any other commercial organic growing skills or knowledge you are looking to gain from this course?

7. Business proposal

This course is designed for people who want to start growing commercially. If you have plans please outline them briefly below. If you are at an earlier stage and have a fledgling idea don’t worry the course will help you to do this, so outline your idea.

7.a. Please outline your plans for growing vegetables commercially after the course

Mention other people involved, types of crops, growing technique etc.

7.b. Tell us about any business plan you’ve been working on, or market research carried out or funding you have in place:

7.c. Thinking about your future as a grower, are you interested in joining our FarmStart programme after completion of this course?

7.d. If you are not considering FarmStart please tell us about any other plans you have for accessing land

8. Marketing

8.a. If your future plans involve growing in or around Greater Manchester, are you interested in supplying our customers?

8.b. Please tell us about the market outlets you are considering?:

9. What does sustainable food mean to you and why is it important?

10. Please indicate why you are interested in attending this short course:

- To gain skills & knowledge to become a commercial grower.

- For this to lead to future employment.

- I’m hoping it will assist me in setting up my own business.

- Build knowledge and skills to start growing commercially.

- I have not come across a course like this before and thought it would be useful.

Other:

11. Availability - Please confirm that you are able to attend training days on:

Day 1 & 2: Saturday 26th September and Sunday 27th September

Day 3: Saturday 3rd October (Glebelands)

Day 4: Saturday 17th October

Two volunteering days (dates to be organised with us at a later stage)

12. Finally, can you tell us how you heard about this course?

13. Privacy Notice

The information you provide us with in this form will be used by The Kindling Trust in order to review your suitability for the course, and its suitability for you. We also use application information to monitor and demonstrate our social impact. By providing your information you consent to it being used in these ways.

We will never use this information to contact you for any other purpose without your consent, and we will never sell or share this information with any third party.

If you are successful in applying for a place, we may want to use some of the information you provide in this form - for example your name, why you’re applying and what you plan to do next - to help us tell others about the course, via our website, e-news, newsletter etc. This never include your contact details.

Please let us know if you are happy to consent to your application information being used publicly in this way

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