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Depending on your personal interest and level of commitment to vegetable gardening and/or helping others, several levels of training and certification are available for you as follows:
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.
In fact, the Mittleider Method is so simple that you can learn the basics and become a proficient gardener right from the Learn section right here on the website, or by studying the small book 6 Steps to Successful Gardening! A Missionary couple took this book as their only teaching aid to Zimbabwe, Africa recently, and after their 2-year mission they had more than 10,500 people feeding themselves in 84 large community gardens.
Eight hours, taught in 4 two hour classes. Basic introduction to The Mittleider Method, with videos, garden tours, and live instruction. Available to groups by special appointment.
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 to groups by special arrangement.
Advanced Gardening Certifications (in Salt Lake City, Utah or other locations by special arrangement)
Six Weeks, including five and a half days per week, with 2 hours of classroom instruction and 4-6 hours 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 twice per week, midterm and final exams, and regular measurement of competency in major areas of food production. Prepares you to grow seedlings plus a Mittleider garden, and assist others as a part-time endeavor or as a part of a humanitarian project, with others’ involvement and assistance. Also, very useful as a refresher course after 1-2 years experience as a Certified Mittleider Gardener (see 5 below).
Twelve weeks (a “growing season”), including five and a half days per week, with 2 hours of classroom and 4-6 hours of practical garden training, including everything in #4 above, plus construction of a greenhouse, and substantial training and 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.
Twenty four weeks, with the second twelve weeks continuing to learn while assuming supervisory responsibilities. All gardening testing and competency measurements are repeated, along with leadership, human relations, accounting, marketing, and supervisory skills. A high level of competency and accuracy in all areas is 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.
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 making special arrangements for a group training please contact us.
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