Certificate in Sustainable Food Gardens
Achieve Healthy Food Production and Sustainable Living From Home
Are you motivated by sustainable living and want to start a new chapter in your life where you grow your own food, but don’t have the skills or confidence to start? Or perhaps you’re a seasoned gardener looking to elevate your skills to a professional level? The Certificate in Sustainable Food Gardens is the key to transforming your passion for gardening and sustainable food into a fulfilling career or business. This comprehensive course will not only fill the gaps in your horticultural knowledge—but also expand your horizons, teaching you to grow, harvest, and preserve a diverse range of foods like never before.
Duration
Approximately 200 hours to complete the course, which has 2 key modules made up of 18 subjects.
Entry Requirements
There are no prerequisites to complete this course. However, you must be able to read, analyse and comprehend, printed information in English, and to write statements and solve problems to complete the course. You must also have reliable access to a computer and a reliable internet connection and have basic computer skills.
Certificate
Upon completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and a Statement of Attainment for each module completed.
Delivery
Online, flexible learning when it suits you and your lifestyle.
Availability of Content
12 months to access the course content (extensions are considered on a case-by-case basis)
Approximately 200 hours to complete the course, which has 2 key modules made up of 18 subjects.
There are no prerequisites to complete this course. However, you must be able to read, analyse and comprehend, printed information in English, and to write statements and solve problems to complete the course. You must also have reliable access to a computer and a reliable internet connection and have basic computer skills.
Upon completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and a Statement of Attainment for each module completed.
Online, flexible learning when it suits you and your lifestyle.
12 months to access the course content (extensions are considered on a case-by-case basis)
Summary
Are you motivated by sustainable living and want to start a new chapter in your life where you grow your own food, but don’t have the skills or confidence to start? Or perhaps you’re a seasoned gardener looking to elevate your skills to a professional level? The Certificate in Sustainable Food Gardens is the key to transforming your passion for gardening and sustainable food into a fulfilling career or business. This comprehensive course will not only fill the gaps in your horticultural knowledge—but also expand your horizons, teaching you to grow, harvest, and preserve a diverse range of foods like never before.
Course Outline
Students will undertake 2 Key Modules, made up of 18 subjects.
Achieve Healthy Food Production and Sustainable Living From Home
Imagine being able to confidently cultivate your own kitchen garden, complete with vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Picture yourself mastering various food preservation techniques—from drying and smoking to bottling and freezing. This course goes beyond the basics, diving deep into topics like diet and nutrition, pests and weeds management, landscaping, and even indoor gardening. With modules on self sufficiency and home garden management you’ll gain a well-rounded education that empowers you to make informed decisions for your home garden and beyond.
But the benefits don’t stop at your garden’s edge. Completing this course opens doors to exciting career opportunities in sustainable farming, food production, farm consulting, and even farm management. Whether you aspire to become a hobby farmer or start a career in horticulture, this beginner-level course lays a robust foundation that will set you apart from the competition. Equip yourself with the skills and knowledge to excel while championing sustainable food production and self-sufficiency. Enquire now and sow the seeds for a greener, more fulfilling future!
Module 1: Self Sufficiency II (100 hours)
Completing this course will give you knowledge, awareness, confidence and inspiration to grow a wider range of vegetables, fruit, grains, herbs for food, then harvest and use what you grow in a wider range of ways than you have ever done before. Learn from experts with decades of experience in self sufficiency including different ways to preserve foods from drying and bottling to making preserves and freezing and also how to produce sustainable food from animals such as eggs and milk. This module will teach you how to grow food from home sustainably.
Module 2: Home Garden Expert Course (100 hours)
This course covers the essentials of gardening to take your home garden to the next level while teaching you more experienced horticulture methods to complement the vegetable, fruit, grain and herb growing skills learnt from the self sufficiency module.
If you haven’t studied a broad horticulture course before; there will no doubt be gaps in your knowledge and skills that will be holding you back from your full potential. This course will expand your awareness of what is possible, and help you to make better judgments about what are appropriate goals for you to achieve in your home garden for food production.
For the full subject list and course guide, fill out our Enquiry Form and our course consultants will be in touch.
Assessment
Assessments are an important part of your study journey as they help ensure you stay on track and meet the learning objectives of each lesson before moving onto the next. They also help your student support advisor and mentors identify where any further support may be required, so that you get the most out of your course. You will learn via various methods; a combination of reading, undertaking research and watching videos. Assessments might include case studies, quizzes, and written assessments.
Approval & Recognition
The Learning Group is an approved and recognised member of IARC. The IARC is an International association which recognises quality and excellence in education providers in tertiary education.
Who will this course interest?
This course is a beginner-level course and will lay a sound foundation of knowledge and skills that can grow with experience and further study. Food production and farming is a competitive field, and this course will help you develop and strengthen your skills and knowledge to become more successful in sustainable food gardening or a similar role and ensure you stand out from the competitors. Understanding the basics of the self-sufficiency processes for food production while understanding home gardening to produce organic and sustainable food are broad skills that can be useful and implemented in several agriculture, horticulture or farming roles.
This course may be of interest to people working, or aspiring to work in or as:
› Sustainable Farming
› Small Business
› Food Production
› Farm Consulting
› Farm Management
› Hobby Farming
› Horticulture
If you have a specific job in mind, it is important that you research exactly what is required before enrolling in a course. Different roles will require different skills, qualifications and recognition. If you are unsure, one of our course consultants will be able to help you with this.