Participant application FARM Center Winter Immersion February, 2026: Family-Friendly Food Forest Workshop  
This hands on workshop is about growing food in the space around your home in an abundant, resilient, and low maintenance food forest. We will guide you in adapting the techniques and principles used by people throughout the world to cultivate their living environment in harmony with nature while producing food, medicine, and fiber for household use. Over the course of four weeks (4 hrs instruction/day x 5 days/week), participants get hands on experience and training customized for their particular site and personal preferences. Your course work will include:

+ preparing your site
+ selecting species
+ developing a planting pattern
+ planting techniques
+ maintenance and harvest

We are passionate about multi-strata food forests intended for abundant food for consumption and sharing with neighbors. This workshop is specifically intended for people who have some previous gardening experience and want to gain more so that they can more easily grow a forest-like garden in ways that benefit both people and the natural world. 

This workshop is designed for:

* People in Hawaii who want to plant a food forest at their home
* All ages and abilities--whole households are encouraged
* Those who are interested in transforming their connection to nature around them

The workshop sessions are scheduled to 5 days/week beginning the week of February 16, 2026. We will determine the weekly schedule based on participant preferences.  

The cost of the workshop is $1000 per person. 
We have a few modest cabins and plenty of camping space with a communal kitchen.

The trainers:

We have made it our lives' work to regenerate food systems with food forestry (agroforestry). Together, we have over 50 years experience and we have had the great privilege of working in many different environments in Hawaii and the Pacific region: from arid to wet, low to high elevation, rocky lava to deep soils, so that we are well-versed at methods and species used in many different situations.

Sophia Bowart, BFA, MBA is committed to regenerating degraded lands using successional agroforestry and teaching such techniques to the world.  After being introduced to this work by Ernst Gotsch, and her husband, Neil Logan, Sophia has been implementing successional agroforestry techniques on Mohala Lehua Farm in North Kohala, Hawaii since 2008. In addition to converting former pastureland into a diverse, multistory agroforest, she has been developing a range of value-added-products from the farm in order to offset the cost of planting and maintenance.

Neil Logan is a specialist in the research and development of natural products and the agro-ecological and socio-cultural contexts that support them. Neil develops whole systems that integrate information technology and agro-ecosystems. With agroforestry experience on three continents, in both arid and wet conditions, temperate to tropical, Neil is also trained in western herbalism, natural products development (25 years experience). From 2001- present, Neil is a teacher of agroforestry, horticulture, mycoculture and information technology via workshops, lectures, publications and presentations.
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Participants will uplift their vision for a family food forest into practical planning.
Workshop details
This Family-Friendly Food Forest workshop is a hands on training based on a curriculum developed over the past 20 years by the trainers. The overall goal will be to guide participants through the design, installation and management process to apply to their own home food abundance forest.

Please tell us a little about yourself by answering the following questions. The workshops are a large commitment of time and money and we wish to optimize the experience for everyone and customize the workshop to participants' needs.

We appreciate your candid answers and your trusting us to determine if these workshops are a good match for you. We will respond to your application within seven days of receipt. Space is limited, so please submit your application early.

Workshops include:

• An intensive learning experience, life changing for many participants
• Personalized training in both theory and practice
• Very full webinars of learning and interacting with like-minded people.

Cost: The workshop series includes 20 days of 4 hour trainings/day, personalized to best support in the development of your food forest plan, $800 per household. The fee is due prior to beginning the workshop and is non-refundable.

The workshops are scheduled to begin the week of February 16. We will determine the weekly schedule based on participant preferences.  
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What formal or informal work experience do you have? Please be sure to include farm and garden experience or other fieldwork you have done. *
What formal or informal study have you done that is relevant to agroforestry? (For example, ecology, botany, agricultural science, etc.) *
How large is the area you wish to plant? Dimensions? *
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