Advanced Food Growing

About this course

This workshop explores ecological approaches to planning and caring for food-growing spaces. Participants examine how successional growing can support continuous harvests, and how intercropping, companion planting and edible plant guilds can create mutually beneficial growing systems. The course also covers food forests, ornamental-edible plants, perennial vegetables, wildlife-supporting planting, habitat creation and composting. These approaches are considered as part of designing productive gardens that combine edible crops, biodiversity and visual appeal.

What you'll learn

• Plan successional growing systems for more continuous harvests
• Design intercropping arrangements, companion plantings and edible plant guilds
• Select and establish perennial vegetables and ornamental-edible plants
• Integrate wildlife habitat and composting into food-growing spaces
• Apply ecological design principles to balance crop production, biodiversity and garden appearance

Is this course right for you?

The course is intended for growers and gardeners who are comfortable with fundamental food-growing practices and want to develop ecological design approaches. The Intermediate level suggests work beyond introductory techniques, but the source does not state a formal prerequisite. Participation centres on planning and designing food-growing spaces around harvest, biodiversity and wildlife habitat.