Year 1: Permaculture Certificate Course Outline

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1. Permaculture Principles and Design - food gardens, medicinal plants, and   ethics.

2. Planning for Sustainable Food Production - key aspects, tools, considerations, budget, and record keeping. 

3. Nutrition and Dietary Needs - importance and principles of nutrition, sources, balanced diet, hiv/aids nutrition, and under- nutrition.

4. Trees and Shrubs - role of plants, planting, windbreaks, live fence, species, agro-forestry, and orchards.

5. Vegetables and Crops - types, growing, seed multiplication, nutritional value of different vegetables.

6. Herbs and Medicinal Plants - types, herbs for nutrition and medicinal purposes, preparing and storing herbs, and growing   healthy herbs.

7. Small Livestock - types and integration of livestock for crop farming.

8. Soil Management - soil types, preparing the soil, mulching, composting, earthworms, crop rotation, and the different types of manure.

9. Companion Planting - identifying crops that grow well together.

10. Water management - water harvesting, water management, water conservation, grey water management, and irrigation techniques and technologies.

11. Plant Propagation - sexual and asexual propagation, propagating fruit trees, seed germination, nursery establishment and management, bee keeping.

12. Pest Management - manage pests, diseases and weeds in your garden - understanding pests, disease and weed management, design natural habitat for pest predators, inter-planting, natural sprays for specific pests, supportive strategies, helpful insects control pests, diseases, and weeds.

13. Crop Harvesting - timing of harvesting, effective methods of harvesting.

14. Seed saving - collection and storage, selection, saving, and importance of seed saving.

15. Recipes and Food Preparation - ways of preparing food and key considerations when preparing specific foods.

16. Green Building and Green Technologies - what is green building, different types of green building, and green technologies (water tanks, bio-gas digesters, and alternative energy sources).