Unique to the School is that the farmer and his/her family farm will be the focal for pilot-test (on-farm) and introducing innovative, yet suitable, coconut-based farming systems. Together, the students and their parents will be empowered through skills development to develop the farm, with backstopping of the FFS technicians. And a "start-up capital" will be provided to enrolled students, enabling them to go into farm enterprise, fueling family income and rural economy.

The overriding goal of the FFS is to produce skilled graduates of coconut production and processing. Upon their completion of the program, they will be issued with certificates by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) as passport for either employment with communal/corporate farms, or self-employment. For self-employment, crop diversity of family farms will be pushed and promoted as one way to redesign the farming system, i. e., introducing a range of crops and/or ruminants to ease the coconut farms from price fluctuations of a single cropping system - a dominant practice of coconut farmers in Northern Samar.