How to produce for top-restaurants?

If you think it would be cool to be an artisanal farmer who grows mind-blowing ingredients for prominent chefs, your time has come. Now there’s a school that will teach you how to become one. It’s Farmer University at Love Apple Farms, a new Santa Cruz, CA, educational venture that’s offering a one-year-long live-in educational program that trains students in the art and science of growing food specifically for restaurants. Classes start Oct. 1, 2013, and the job placement assistance sounds awesome.
Farmer University is the brainchild of Cynthia Sandberg, owner of Love Apple Farms in Santa Cruz. She practices biodynamic organic farming and has spent the past eight years farming exclusively for chef David Kinch’s Manresa. This restaurant holds two Michelin stars and has been named one of the world’s 50 best restaurants by British magazine The Restaurant.

So what exactly will students learn while at this school? Farmer U. aims to “train farmers to perfectly match the needs and requirements of gourmet restaurants. Our student farmers will also learn important aspects of CSA farming, agri-tourism principles and strategies, and most importantly: how to acquire, run and manage a successful farm-based business.”
Tuition for this 12-month program is $14,000. For that sum the student gets a “complete instructional program, full room and board, off-farm workshops and seminars, and recruitment/employment assistance upon graduation”.