The Earthworkers programme was an invaluable course I took at a moment in my career I needed the most. I had just started as Farm Manager at an organic market garden and wanted to make informed decisions to develop a true harmony between the land , ecosystem and production. This course also open the doors to a grassroots community with evolving support as the group becomes bigger. It didn’t feel like I was all alone trying to go against the conventional agricultural current anymore.

As many others will say, Earthworkers 101 is a transformational experience. It is a flurry of inspiring and empowering knowledge, tools and a framework for how we interact with the ecology around us. I have been wanting to go deeper for some time, so I am excited about a potential EW 201 and a pathway toward becoming a Regenerative Agronomist in the Future Agronomists program.

I joined EW’s Hort 101 after seeing the success of one of its alumni in market gardening. The course taught me how soil science, biodiversity, and urban farming principles can be applied to create a healthy, productive garden, giving me the confidence to start my own backyard urban farm. The group chat is an invaluable space where people of all experience levels share ideas, questions and local insights. I’m looking forward to diving even deeper into the follow-up courses Hort 201 and Future Agronomist.

Nga mihi kia koe loved the mahi and hanging in the maara with everyone a lot to take in but have been able to implement and see results , the ongoing support through WhatsApp has been very useful, mauri ora.

The Earthworkers course demonstrated how much i had been doing to discourage soil health and was able to correct this through my learnings