SIFT — or Small-Scale Intensive Farm Training program — aims to help communities increase their food security by producing their own healthy food. SIFT, with NCAT, has a working, sustainably managed, demonstration farm on five acres at our Butte office.

This farm is the center of a program that teaches farmers and future farmers, urban food producers, community leaders, and citizens how to produce high-value, nutrient-rich food on small parcels of land. And in Butte's case, in a challenging climate.

John and Andrew talk about the farm's educational capacity and what its research has shown concerning maximizing growing capacity, conserving water, hydroponics, and other issues.

For more information on this topic, contact John Wallace directly at [email protected].

Related ATTRA Resources
Episode 165: SIFT Farm's Unusual Year
NCAT/ATTRA's SIFT farm website
Urban and Community Agriculture
ATTRA COVID-19 Response
SIFT 2018: Lessons from a Small-Scale Urban Intensive Farm
SIFT 2019: Continuing Lessons from a Small-Scale Urban Intensive Farm
Production to Address Community Needs
Cherries and Honeyberries in a Cold Climate

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