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    Kokopelli Farm’s Hands-on Trainings, Farm Tours, & Dog Park

    It’s Spring! Kokopelli Farm offers free hands-on trainings in sustainable agriculture this time of year. Upon completion of this 3-5 hour work, one is eligible to be hired to pick boysenberries on early morning hours during June and July. Shorter farm tours are also available. Either can be arranged any day of the week.

    Trainings include a description of basic agricultural principles with nature in mind, rather than against it. The following are covered: safety precautions, eye/hand coordination, plant identification, time/energy issues, plant/animal interaction, color differentiation, appropriate clothing, and attention to details. Proper ways to mulch, prune, use hand tools, weed, fertilize, farm in a wild area, and work with a farm dog will also be described. Agriculture will be explored as a productive way of being in nature and learning from plants and animals. We will help teach participants how “to think like a berry.”

    Farms tours are also available for families and for community, church, school, environmental and other groups. Trainings and tours begin on the forest floor of a redwood stand, extend into the ag zone, and beyond into the unique Cunningham Marsh. Given our unpredictable future, it can be helpful to learn how to improve one’s capacity to work the land to grow one’s own food.

    Trainings are for those 15 years or older and tours are for people of all ages. Kokopelli also provides a free dog park for non-aggressive dogs, accompanied by humans, to play and roam.

    Kokopelli resides slightly south of Sebastopol, up from Hardcore Coffee, off Bloomfield Road. It is small, humble, and rustic. Shepherd has owned and operated this farm for 22 years. Information from 707-829-8185 or [email protected]. We can send you a description of the farm or schedule a training or tour, as well as a photo of our Catahoula leopard hound.

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    Re: Kokopelli Farm’s Hands-on Trainings, Farm Tours, & Dog Park

    As with last year, this "free hands-on training" of "3-5 hour work" that might make you "eligible to be hired to pick boysenberries on early morning hours during June and July" is still a gross violation of fair labor practices and, quite frankly, illegal. When this was called to attention last year the post suddenly disappeared. I suspect if some other berry farm or vineyard tried such it would be met with protest and picket lines by the poster.

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