Canada: Organic, No-Till Vegetable Gardening Course
Learn the essentials of vegetable gardening with a special focus on composting, succession planting and winter gardening.
Dan Oostenbrink – Local Harvest in Chilliwack
Andrew Couzens – Terra Flora Organics
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Learn the essentials of vegetable gardening with a special focus on composting, succession planting and winter gardening.
This workshop is intended for beginning and more advanced home gardeners looking to gain food self-sufficiency. By applying some basic gardening principles you’ll learn how to grow more food on less space without an aching back so that you can eat from your garden every day of the year.
Your instructor is Dan, market gardener at Local Harvest. Dan will help you gain confidence in the garden. He’s passionate about organic growing and gives a practical, no-nonsense approach for gardening that maximizes your garden’s productivity.
Andrew Couzens, a local composting expert at Terraflora Organics will also join us. Andrew will provide us with a soil overview and the best composting practices including vermicomposting so you can build phenomenal soil health, the foundation of great gardening.
Here are the main topics we’ll cover:
- building soil fertility through composting
- the no-till, mulching gardener
- planning for a continuous harvest
- dealing with pests
- including perennial edibles and flowers in your garden
- growing tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and cucumbers
- eating year round: fall and winter gardening
This course will be offered virtually given the ongoing restriction of in-person gatherings here in BC. All recordings of the course will happen at Local Harvest providing real life examples and demonstrations.
This virtual course will cover the basic principles of no-till gardening and will help you gain confidence in the garden as you work towards greater food self-sufficiency.
Course content will be covered in TEN 15 MINUTE MODULES each dealing with one BIG IDEA or ENDURING UNDERSTANDING. We cover a lot of material but don’t worry; you’ll be able to re-watch it at a later date.
