OUR COURSE IS LIVE!

We filmed the entire 2025 season to share as an online course. From starting the first seeds during the winter all the way through the picking season, we share every step of the methods we use to grow a large volume of high quality produce, then how to build a community of pickers to come and git it.

$597 for lifetime access, including monthly live Q&A calls with Meg and Jack

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This course is for you if:

  • You’re new to farming and want to know everything you need to know to start a pick-your-own

  • You’re already growing food, but can’t make ends meet with traditional market gardener avenues of sale

  • You love growing vegetables but hate the labor of farmers markets, running a CSA or online store, and doing deliveries

  • You dream of providing a place for your community to come together around agriculture to learn and have fun

  • Our story

    How this course will work

    Part 1: Grow a lot of stuff

    Soil Prep
    1. Regen for dummies
    2. Soil basics
    3. Bed prep

    Plant Prep
    1. Seed starting
    2. Crop maintenance: foliars, drenches, bugs, and weeds
    3. Crop by crop: beets, carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons, cucumbers, blackberries, and flowers (kind of)

    Part 2: Sell a lot of stuff with pick-your-own

    Before You Begin
    1. Five key must haves
    2. Don’t break the law

    Crop Planning
    1. Theory of pick-your-own
    2. What to grow, and how much?
    3. General considerations

    Finding Your People
    1. Who ARE your people?
    2. Your online presence and managing communications

    Running a Picking Season
    1. Ready: Stuff, online stuff, and staff
    2. Set: Strategies, policies, prices, and rules
    3. Go!
    4. Troubleshooting
    5. Challenges

    • 10+ hours of content filmed on site during our active growing and picking seasons

    • Supplemental documents with supporting information including equipment and products with links

    • Direct access to Farmer Meg (and Jack!) for Q&A sessions

  • If you’re already able to grow a large volume of high quality produce, probably not! In Pick-Your-Own Farming, we deliberately excluded our growing practices in order to focus on our business model. Now, you’ll get to see the exact methods we use to produce 30-40,000 pounds of high quality fruits and veg, and how we bring the public out to pick it. Our growing practices are regenerative and suitable for most organic operations.

  • The book goes into depth and detail the way only a book can - I will always recommend grabbing the book from Acres as a companion to the course that you can easily refer to for all aspects of our pick-your-own business model.

  • I chose to write, shoot, and edit the whole course to keep the cost accessible.

HEAR FROM OTHER FARMERS:

I found the content informative, educational, encouraging and inspiring. Meg's friendly and sociable method of presentation is a very comfortable way to learn about her experiences in the journey to AgriTourism. - Tim G.

Took her course and loved it. She has great, straightforward content. Hoping to open my u-pick flowers in a few months thanks to her example. Fingers crossed! - Rachel F.

This is a great course for someone who is looking to start a pick-your-own operation. Megan goes into a lot of detail about the farming operation. I especially enjoy the calls they host with farmers and willingness to answer additional questions. This course could save someone a lot of time! - Jared D.