INTENSIVE HOMESTEAD FOOD PRODUCTION TRAINING:23-25MARCH 2021
VENUE: Household with garden and inside venue, electricity,
PARTICIPANTS: 8-10MDF staff, 3-4 AFRA staff, 9-12 LFs and participants (English medium)
CATERING: Water, juice fruit, meals (3xlunches)
Intensive gardening learning outline
Day 1
Natural farming
- Garden layout and
design; Orientation,
aspect, slope
-Waterflow
-Wind
PPTs:
Soil and water
conservation
Demos and practicals:
-Waterflow diagram
and design of cut off
drains etc
- Contours, line levels,
-Cut off drain, contour
ditches, infiltration
pits
-Plant windbreak,
4-5
hrs
- Handouts
- Flip charts, stand, kokis x 10-20. Data
projector, leads, Screen (Sipho)
-Buy: line levels, poles (10x1,6m), string,
pegs, (Mazwi)
-Spades, picks, forks (Mazwi)
-Rocks and stones (Mazwi)
-Erna: Napier fodder, irises
-Buy: Aloes, lemongrass, Kei apples (Mazwi)
Day 2
Introduction to
natural soil
fertility
management
- Nutrient cycles
-Introduction to soils;
Physical, chemical,
biological
- Manures, compost
-Bed design
-Liquid manure
PPTs;
CC, organic matter
- sausage and bottle
tests, discussion
- Practical demos:
Fertility pits
Trench beds
Shallow trenches
Eco-circle
Animal and foliar feed
6-7
hrs
-Handouts
-On site: Min 6 bags grass and weeds, 6
bagsmanure (Mazwi), ash, bones, sticks,
water
-Banana tree seedlings (Tema)
-Buy 2 buckets w lids, orange pockets, milk,
sugar, bonemeal, lime
-Buy one large bin (50l)
Erna: Ash
Day 3
-Mixed cropping; crop
mixes for good nutrition
-Natural pest and
disease control
- Nutrition
PPTs:
Mixed cropping
Natural P&D control
Nutrition
-Seed bed preparation
-Planting a mixture of
seed and seedlings
-Mulching
-Watering
-Pest control brews
3 -5
hrs
-Handouts
Buy: Herbs, multipurpose plants; parsley,
coriander, thyme, rosemary, garlic chives,
bulbinella, comfrey, fennel (Tema, Nonto)
Veg seed: selection of small packets,
Seedlings: Marigolds, Chinese cabbage,
mustard spinach, spring onions, (Tema,
Nonto)