3-3-0

This course is an introduction to organic and environment-friendly gardening, combining lectures and a hands-on practicum. Principles of companionship, growth, water and mineral balance will be discussed. Students will learn how to recognize and treat diseases, pests or common physiological disorders with environmentally natural techniques. At the end of this course, students should be able to set-up and run a garden using environment-friendly techniques and know how to harvest, handle and store crops. Depending on the interests of the group, the course will either cover transformation strategies for year-long storage of vegetables grown in the summer (canning, freezing, fermentation, drying...), or make an introduction to entrepreneurship in organic farming (based on the instructor's own experieince). In addition, several visits will be organized to locally run organic farms to present various models of environment-friendly productions of veggies, fruits, and herbs.

Pre-requisite: BIL111 Organic Gardening Lab



Note: This course is open to the general public and my be taken by non-DNS students for science credit. However, students in any of the science majors may only take this course as a free elective, and may not count this course for science credit.