Cultivating Futures – Pedagogical Vegetable Gardens
The future depends on what we cultivate today! Let’s create an organic vegetable garden everywhere and grow a more sustainable future? Today is the day! Are you an enthusiastic teacher looking to spread seeds of change in education? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the environment? So, this course is for you!
Description
The future is in our hands! We just have to cultivate the right seeds. As Eckhart Tolle reminds us, “We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way home. We got lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating. We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be where life is: here and now.” With this training, we hope to inspire you to get hands-on in the vegetable garden and rediscover this connection with nature that we are losing more and more in this industrialized world.
This course gives you all the knowledge you need to start a pedagogical garden from scratch at your school, whether you have an outdoor space or just a windowsill. It’s not just about growing food but also connecting with nature and relieving the mind of everyday stress. Our mission is simple: empowering educators like you to positively impact students’ lives and our world. This training is practical, fun, and has an excellent friendship and kindness atmosphere! Let’s cultivate together?
Learning objectives
During this course, you will be awakened to environmental awareness, inspired to create and use a school vegetable garden as an open learning lab, pedagogical, dynamic, participatory, and multidisciplinary resources, and get the technical and practical knowledge in the field of organic horticulture, aiming its integration in an educational context:
- Contextualization of urban/school gardens in organic production mode;
- Organic horticulture in an educational context;
- Importance and functioning of plants;
- Types of soil;
- Nutrients and fertilization deficiencies;
- Composting techniques;
- Green adubation;
- Crop rotation;
- Biodiversity in the garden;
- Pests and diseases;
- Plant protection (good practices; auxiliary animals; auxiliary plants and consociation of cultures; treatments);
- Organization and materials of the garden;
- Preparation of the soil and construction of beds;
- A vegetable garden anywhere (even if you only have a windowsill);
- The vegetable garden calendar;
- From seed to plant – sowing and plantations;
- Sexual and asexual reproduction (vegetative multiplication);
- Taking care of the vegetable garden (watering, maintaining, and protection);
- Harvesting the fruits of our work;
- Cultivation specifications for each plant.
Methodology & assessment
Certification details
At the end of the course, each participant will get a certificate of attendance and the Europass Mobility certificate.
Other benefits included:
Digital manuals with complementary materials;
Photographic coverage during the course;
Summary video of our week to share and remember our beautiful moments together;
Access to an exclusive community for Erasmus teachers to share experiences and activities;
Coffee break in every office session.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:400Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Early childhood education (ISCED 0)Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more
