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Training

Depending on your personal interest and level of committment to vegetable gardening and/or helping others, several levels of training and certification are available for you as follows:


Backyard and Hobby Gardening


Self-Instruction


The website, books, and videos are all available, and contain a tremendous wealth of practical training and instruction, and many thousands of people around the world have taught themselves to become highly productive gardeners by using them, without the benefit of in-person training.


Introduction to Mittleider Gardening


Eight hours, taught in 4 two hour classes. Basic introduction to The Mittleider Method, with videos, garden tours, and live instruction. Available at Thanksgiving Point, in Lehi, Utah (801) 768-2300 or by special arrangements at other locations for groups.


Intermediate Mittleider Gardening


Thirty two hours, taught in 16 two hour classes. More complete, intensive gardening experience and training from the college-level text Food For Everyone, and the student lab manual, The Mittleider Gardening Course. Includes introduction to plant nutrition, organic and mineral fertilizers, climbing plants (vertical growing), automated watering, greenhouse construction and cold-weather growing, seedling production, problem soils, and common garden insects and diseases. Available at Thanksgiving Point or by special arrangements.


Advanced Gardening Certifications (in Salt Lake City, Utah or by arrangement)


Certified Mittleider Gardener/Humanitarian Service


Six Weeks, including five and a half days per week, with 2 hours of classroom instruction and 4-6 hourse of practical garden training, covering basic, intermediate, and advanced topics, using Food For Everyone as text and The Mittleider Gardening Course as lab manual. Includes quizzes 2-3 times per week, midterm and final exams, and regular measurment of competency in major areas of food production. Prepares you to grow a Mittleider garden and assist others as a part-time endeaver or as a part of a humanitarian project, with others involvment and assistance. Also, very useful as a refresher course after 1-2 years experience as a Certified Mittleider Gardener (see 5 below).


Certified Mittleider Master Gardener


Twelve weeks (a “growing season”), incuding five and a half days per week, with 2 hours of classroom and 5-6 hours of practical garden training, including everything in #4 above, plus construction of a greenhouse, and a substantial experience in seedling as well as greenhouse crop production. Competency and accuracy in all areas is required for certification. Prepares you to grow home and commercial gardens up to 1/2+ acre, and assist others to do the same.


Certified Master Mittleider Gardening Supervisor


Twenty four weeks, with the second twelve weeks learning and assuming supervisory responsibilities. All gardening testing and competency measurements are repeated, along with leadership, human relations, and supervisory skills. A high level of competency and accuracy in all areas required for certification. Prepares you to grow commercial Mittleider gardens from 1/2 to 3 acres and/or work as a supervisor in a commercial operation or teaching facility.


Certified Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor


Thirty-six to forty-eight weeks, depending upon experience and teaching aptitude, with weeks 25+ devoted to learning the duties and skills of the garden project foreman, along with student teaching in classroom instruction and garden training situations. A high level of competency, accuracy, and commitment to excellence in all areas are required for certification. Prepares you to grow, supervise, and teach Mittleider gardening in a commercial operation or teaching facility.


If you are interested in arranging a special arrangement for a group training please contact us.





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Tip of the Day

It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.

The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.

If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.

Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!

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