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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:
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.
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.
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)
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).
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.
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.
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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