Creating a learning environment that suits to adult education is a crucial point. Learning needs to be seen as a communicative and thought exchanging process among adults who respect and support each other. Contradictions will occur repeatedly during FFS. It is important to take these up and clarify them in a bottom up approach. In a high-quality learning process farmers need to solve and answer challenges and questions among themselves. This will allow farmers to create new ownership and be emancipated. It enables a process that leads to a local group of farmers building trust, widening their agro-ecosystem knowledge and learning from each other at a personal level.

Following Jürgen Habermas theory adults mainly learn from three reasons: Work, social interaction and power. To keep this in balance and initiate a group process where learners find an intrinsic motivation the workshops need to be facilitated by the right trainers.

Trainers need to facilitate rather than teach or train. They do not only need technical skills but must be open minded and need to take adult education seriously. During the workshops there will be a learning process that needs to be adjusted to changing needs of the participants. This can then lead to the right practical and participatory adult education.