Course Description:
Why grow vegetables organically?
- Work with the environment – organic vegetables are healthier to grow
- Healthier for the consumer – naturally gown, no nasty chemicals so they are healthier to eat and they encourage a sustainable environment
- Organically grown vegetables can command higher prices than those produced by regular intensive crop production.
- Explore the possibilities for an exciting, environmentally friendly, and financially rewarding way of earning a living.
Course structure
The course comprises 12 lessons as follows:
- Introduction
- Cultivation and Planting
- Soils and Nutrition
- Soil Management
- Review of Major Vegetable Varieties
- Pests and Disease
- Seed
- Greenhouse Growing
- Lesser Grown Varieties and Herbs
- Irrigation
- Mulching
- Harvesting and Marketing
