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4. Permagardening for the Family – Forest Garden Training Center
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Download the Permagardening for the Family Chapter

The Permagardening for the Family chapter of the Facilitators Manual provides the detailed instructions (and support materials) you need to implement the mobilization meeting.  Download the chapter here.

Summary

Goal Using provided seeds and tools, farmers will meet their family’s priority subsistence needs by nursing, planting and maintaining at least 6 types of nutritious vegetables, including 3 not previously planted. Learning Objectives
  1. Motivate interest in growing new types of nutritious vegetables.
  2. Understand considerations for nursery and garden site selection.
  3. Learn best practices for growing a variety of nutritious vegetables, including land preparation, spacing, nursing, and planting methods.
  4. Understand how companion planting and triangular spacing can increase yield and reduce pests and moisture loss.
  5. Learn basic garden care including soil amending, mulching, watering and natural pest control.
Venue and Timing This module should be given about six weeks before the start of the main gardening season, commonly the cool dry season that follows the rainy season. The training can be held at the lead farmer’s Forest Garden or a participant farmer’s Forest Garden. Relevant Technical Manual Chapters Before this training event, the facilitator should read, review, and thoroughly understand the following chapters and sections in the Technical Manual:
  • Chapter 5: Seedling Propagation (Soils section)
  • Chapter 13: Permagardening
Preparation
  • Ask lead farmer what vegetables his/her family would like to plant during Module 4.
  • Prepare lead farmer to give smart answers to nutrition-related questions in the Opener activity.
  • Ask lead farmer to prepare nursery site, including double digging the beds.
  • Purchase the vegetable seeds that will be used for the training event.
  • Ensure lead farmer begins nursing vegetables in seedling beds 4-6 weeks before workshop.
  • Identify three literate farmers to read the nutrition story in the opener activity. Go over the story with the “actors” in advance if the farmers are not literate.
  • Review the module instructions and corresponding permagardening sections of the Trees for the Future Forest Garden Technical Manual.
Supplies
  • Vegetable seeds
  • 5 hoes or picks
  • 5 shovels
  • 1 wheelbarrow of finished compost
  • 1 bucket of charcoal powder
  • 1 bucket of wood ash
  • 3 watering cans
  • 5 buckets
  • String
  • Flip chart
  • Markers
Total Time 4-5 hours Handouts in Farmer’s Workbook
  • diagram of garden setup/design, triangular spacing

Agenda

Opener: Nutrition story (30 mins)
  • Volunteers read/act out story
  • Debrief nutrition lessons learned from story
  • Discuss nutrition needs of the lead farmer’s family
Activity 1: Permagarden design (45 mins)
  • Discuss garden site selection criteria for lead farmer’s Forest Garden design
  • Make a plan for the lead farmer’s permagarden
Activity 2: Germination beds (1 hour)
  • Instruct large group on how to prepare nursery site and nurse vegetable seeds
Activity 3: Small group Learn-and-Teach (1 hour)
  • Farmers form small groups, collect vegetable seeds or seedlings, and discuss planting methods
  • Small groups prepare beds for their assigned vegetable
  • Small groups start planting/transplanting the first section of their bed
  • Call all groups together for first Learn-and-Teach
  • Continue Learn-and-Teach
Take Home Activity 4: Start your germination beds and permagardens (30 mins)
  • Debrief Learn-and-Teach and discuss permagardening best practices
  • Design your permagarden
  • Follow-up

What you need to know

Whether you intend to sit the FG Pro certification exam, or lead Seedling Propagation module extension activities, you must be able to answer the following questions to succeed. 

Soil types, amendments, compost & mulch

Permagerdening: Year round vegetable garden

 

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Updated on May 30, 2017

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