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Download the Permagardening for the Market Chapter

The Permagardening for the Market 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 Farmers will meet new market opportunities by expanding vegetable production, increasing garden diversity, and scheduling planting and harvesting to meet demand. Learning Objectives
  1. Learn appropriate land preparation and planting techniques for the vegetables selected during the current season.
  2. Learn how to time planting and harvesting to meet market demand.
  3. Learn improved planting, harvesting, and post-harvest processing and storage techniques.
Venue and Timing This module should be given at the start of the main gardening season, commonly the cool dry season that follows the rainy season. The training should be held at the lead farmer’s or a participant farmer’s Forest Garden. Relevant Technical Manual Chapters Before this training event, the facilitator should review and thoroughly understand the following chapters and sections in the Technical Manual:
  • Chapter 5: Seedling Propagation (Soils and Caring for Your Seedlings in the Nursery sections)
  • Chapter 13: Permagardening
Preparation
  • Draw seasonality chart on flip chart paper (empty, to be filled in during workshop).
  • Fill in important holidays in the correct months, to help farmers better understand the agricultural season during which each holiday falls.
  • Purchase vegetables – identified in Module 5 – at the market to bring to the workshop to use for the opener activity. There should be at least one vegetable from each of the four rotational planting groups.
Supplies
  • 5 hoes
  • 5 shovels
  • Wheelbarrow
  • 1 wheelbarrow of finished compost
  • 1 bucket of charcoal powder
  • 1 bucket of wood ash
  • 3 watering cans
  • Bucket
  • String
  • A variety of vegetables
  • Roll of flipchart paper and tape
  • Markers
Total Time 4-5 hours Handouts in Farmer’s Workbook
  • Families of Vegetables for Crop Rotation Planning
  • Types of Vegetables for Crop Rotation Planning
  • Seasonal Crop and Market Analysis Chart
  • Market Opportunities
  • Garden Design

Agenda

Opener: Sorting vegetable types (30 mins)
  • Explain the different categories of vegetables and relevance to crop rotation
  • Farmers sort vegetables by type
Activity 1: Market analysis (1 hour)
  • Ask farmers about what they grow now to sell in the market
  • Use happy face, neutral face, and sad (disappointed) face pictures to discuss current market prices for select vegetables
  • Create seasonal market analysis chart for the selected vegetables
Activity 2: Market planning (1 hour)
  • Group selects top three vegetables from the seasonal market analysis
  • Small groups create a plan for how to sell that vegetable at market when the price is highest
  • Small groups present plans and get feedback
  • Group discussion on which vegetables to produce and sell together
Activity 3: Growing the vegetables (1 hour)
  • Discuss best practices for planting and harvesting the select vegetables
  • Prepare garden beds in the Forest Garden
  • Practice transplanting seedlings from germination beds to sacks, trench and/or bareroot beds
Take Home Activity 4: Start your market garden (30 mins)
  • Debrief permagardening best practices
  • Instruct farmers to transplant slow-growing fruit trees in the nursery (if it has not yet been done)
  • 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

Updated on May 30, 2017

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