Garden Planning

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Who is this course for?

This course is for people who require help planning their gardens, as well as those who have plentiful summer gardens but sparse production in the colder months and want a full garden all year. 

This course is fantastic particularly for those people who wish to grow all of their own veggies, all year around. 

This course is for every level of home gardener. It makes garden planning simple and easy to navigate your way through the seasons whilst managing a full and productive garden. 

This course is also great for small scale commercial food production. 

This course is good for learning how to manage time, it will teach you how to grow food with minimal time and maximum garden output in a regenerative way. 

This course is great for both urban and country gardeners. 

This course is ideally suited to people who have 40 square  meters of garden space or more. 

CLIMATE: The workshops are based around giving people an understanding of the principals of science and the laws of nature which can be applied in varying ways to any climate. In our videos we are specifically showing people how to apply these rules in a temperate climate.

Episodes and Learning Outcomes

Episode 1

• Get a basic understanding of how a garden planning system is beneficial to us as individuals, to our communities and to the planet as a whole.
• Understand Kay’s main goal with this garden planning process: grow all of her vegetables, grains and seeds, in a super efficient way whilst growing nutrient dense food, soil and ecological health.
• Learn about how we can create a new food culture, a new relationship with our bodies and the earth through this garden planning process.
• Understand why it is important to discover what actually grows well where we live, and how much work we are prepared to do in order to eat nutrient dense vegetables.
• Be inspired and motivated to give it a go!

Episode 2 – Introducing the Master Chart

• Be introduced to all the features and learn how to navigate through exceptional level of information that the Master Chart holds.

Episode 3 – Step 1 & 2

• Be able to decide how big you want your garden to be based on the information in the step by step booklet, and mark that on your Crop Rotation Planner.

Episode 4 – Step 3

• Choose the crops you wish to plant in each of the garden areas (Heavy Feeders, Roots and Legumes, and Carbon Crops). Use the Master Chart to do so and fill in the Crop Choices Sheet. 

Episode 5 – Step 4

• Learn how to take the information from the Summer Garden Section of the Crop Choices Sheet and place it on the Crop Rotation Planner.

Episode 6 – Step 5

• Choose the Winter crops from the Master Chart and place your choices on the Crop Choices Sheet. Remember that the arrows in that sheet point towards the crop that comes before them.

Episode 7 – Step 6

• Place that information onto the Crop Rotation Planner understanding that some crops may not be good choices, because they will need to fit next to each other. If they don’t you may have to make some new choices.

Episode 8 – Step 7

• Learn how to fill in your detailed Garden Action Plan using the Seed Saving Booklet or the Seed Saving Wall Chart, the Seed Catalogue and the Garden Planner Master Chart.

Episode 9 – Step 8 & 9

• Learn how to fill in your Garden Map in detail for your Summer Garden, showing just where every plant will be planted.
• Learn how to fill in your Winter Garden Map, showing just where every plant will be planted in your garden.
• Celebrate this important step towards self reliance and regeneration.
• Final words from Kay