G4H Training Topics

Gardens 4 Humanity Educators Training participants will gain experience in all or some of the following topics:

Teaching Effectively

• Effectively working with kids in an outdoor setting
• Implementing age appropriate garden related curriculum
• Engaging adults in a school garden project
• Resources

•  Activities to bring inside (cooking, food preservation, drying herbs, leaf prints, photo documentation, sprouts, seed saving, garden planning, seed catalogs, vermicomposting)

• Tool safety
• Rain gardens
• Plant ID:  What's a veggie and what's a weed
• Butterfly gardens
• Invasive plants/weed control
• Perennial edibles
• Permaculture
• Tree planting and maintenance
• Mulching and Sheet mulching
• Watering, Water Conservation and rainwater collection
• Soil & Composting, Soil Contamination
• Edible gardening basics:
• Preparing an area for a garden
• Propagation:  Seed starting, division and cuttings
• Raised beds, square foot gardening, container gardening
• What to plant, when and where
• Preparing beds for the winter:  cover crops, mulch and compost
• Spring and Fall Planting/ crop selection
• Pests and diseases
• Fertilizers and Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Season Extension
• Community Food Security: an overview of local and national models
• Organizing new gardens and garden based education in your neighborhood

Last Updated: January 30, 2012