This masterclass will look at how to succeed in a diverse small-farm enterprise, focusing on:

• Getting started: what you need to know and how to approach the first 5 years
• Setting up, budgeting, farm design and planning for success
• Whole farm water design including dams and passive-feed stock watering solutions
• Integrating different animal systems for maximum effect, fertility and yields 
• Integrated nutrient cycling and on-farm composting
• People power - internship and apprenticeship schemes
• Direct marketing, buying club models and building a successful customer network

Joel's seminal book You Can Farm has been highly influential to many small-farm producers and beginner farmers worldwide, which are looking for cost effective and ethical ways to get into farming on a small scale.

For the first time in QLD, Joel will spend an entire day explaining the nuts and bolts of Polyface Farm's innovative animal and operations which are now taking off in the small-farm scene in the USA, due to so many farmers going to Polyface Farms to see how it's done.

This Masterclass is the next best thing to spending a week at Polyface Farms in Virginia, observing and learning about the farm. Joel's accessible and friendly speaking style means you'll get a heap out of this day.

Regular Q&A during the Masterclass will ensure that your questions get answered, and that you'll leave this masterclass with a good understanding of what is involved to get a profitable small farm operation up and running, so you can get farming!