Category Archives: Program Planning & Delivery

A team from the University of Vermont’s Commercial Horticulture program developed an etiquette guidance document for those new to farm partnerships to help foster positive relationships. Facilitating Positive Relationships with Farmers for On-Farm Research (June 2025) provides guidance on making initial contact with farms, next steps when a farm agrees to participate, recommended practices when visiting farms, biosecurity measures, and components of wrapping up a project. Authors include Vern Grubinger, Becky Maden, Heather Darby, and Joshua Faulkner and Laura Olsen.

Toolkit for Impactful Farmer Programs

September 30, 2026Program Planning & DeliveryProgram Planning ResourcesBeth Holtzman

Impactful outreach and education programs get people to change something. Western SARE’s “Best Practices Toolkit for Developing Impactful Educational Programs” provides:

An overview of learning styles, what they mean, why you should care and how they can be used to your advantage including specific teaching strategies you can use that address each kind of learning style.
Insights into how to best market your educational program from the very beginning so people will be inspired by what you have to offer.
Instructions on how to identify your target audience, get them in the room, and how to introduce new information with them in mind based on their learning styles/cultural preferences.
Ideas on how to build trust so you can most effectively transfer the information needed to bring about the change you seek.
Tools to measure how well you are incorporating learning styles into your teaching and learning strategy.