Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter One: Steps to Creating a Garden

    • Hello and Introduction

    • How to use this Course

    • Lets begin! Organise a meeting

    • Creating a Vision Board for your Community Garden

    • How to find your Site

    • Researching the Space

    • Prepare and Develop the Site

    • Deciding what Food to Grow
  • 2

    Chapter Two: How to Get Funding for Your Project

    • Ways to Fund your Community Garden

    • Types of Funding For a Community Garden

    • Register Yourself As a Business

    • Online Giving and Fundraising Freebies

    • Making Money From Your Garden

    • Multicultural Gardens Summer Projects; Example of a Proposal

    • Consider Insurance and Legislation

    • Important Aspects to Consider When Writing a Funding Bid

    • Examples of policies from Earth Moves

    • Engaging the Community

    • Evaluation of Your Funded Project
  • 3

    Chapter Three: What to Plant?

    • Choosing what to plant

    • Planting Seeds

    • Making Cuttings!

    • Flowers for Bees and Beauty

    • Organise Survey

    • What To Do With the Harvest

    • Grow a Meadow

    • Plant identification

  • 4

    Chapter Four: The Magic and Mystery of Trees

    • Forest Gardening, A Garden That Looks After Itself

    • The Mystery of Trees with Dr Nicola Wallbank

    • Best Trees for a Community Garden

    • Creating a Forest Garden: Cooperating With Nature to Grow Edible Crops

    • Trees, Hedges and Shrubs Best Guides

  • 5

    Chapter Five: Features for Your Garden

    • Making a Wildlife Garden

    • Log pile

    • The Magic of Composting

    • Making Ponds

    • Growing Plants in Containers

    • Types of Garden Beds and When to Use Them

    • Polytunnels

    • Compost Toilets Pros and Cons

    • Tools For your Garden

    • Water Capture

  • 6

    Chapter Six: Wellbeing and Volunteering in Community Gardens

    • Risk Assessment in Your Community Garden.

    • Health, Wellbeing Effects for Environmental Volunteering
  • 7

    Chapter Seven: Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy

    • Environment and Self-Care

    • What is Ecotherapy?

    • The Human Mind and the Environment

    • Different types of nature meditiation

    • Reflections

  • 8

    Chapter Nine: Introduction to Permaculture

    • Introduction to Permaculture

    • Apply Permaculture Principles in Design.

    • Permaculture Planning for your Project

    • My Design

    • Design Elements Table

    • Evaluate and Improve

    • Fair share

    • How Could Your Apply Permaculture Principles

    • Permaculture Community Garden Design Example

    • Base Line Report

    • A Comprehensive Example of a Permaculture Baseline Report For Earth Moves, by Tomas Remierz

    • Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share.

    • Different Patterns for Growing and Companion Plants

    • Permaculture for Everyone

    • Task!
  • 9

    Chapter Nine: Climate Change

    • Climate Change and Community Gardens

    • What is Environmentalism?
  • 10

    Chapter Ten: Sustainable Community Garden

    • Eco Friendly Pesticides.

    • Reusing and Repurposing in the Community Garden

    • Making Your Community Garden Safe and Protecting Harvests and Equipment
  • 11

    Conclusions

    • Conclusions and Congratulations!