Whether you want to farm your backyard, your friend’s backyard, an empty lot, your roof, or terrace, you will need a great design and action plan to make it happen. 80% of a bountiful harvest comes from a great plan!

Is this your first edible landscape you're working on?
Or maybe you’ve tried to grow food with good intentions but not the results you hoped for?Perhaps you have put plants in the ground, but are uncertain what to DO in the garden? Or maybe you already grow food and you want to really maximize your yield?

No Land Required!
I created my first farm on someone else’s lawn. You might be thinking about a roof terrace, an indoor system, taking over an empty lot. I’ll be using a backyard farm as a case study, but your situation might be different. If you have no land currently, perhaps this is the time to manifest some…use this class to make up your ideal site and be ready when it shows up in your life.

After this class, you will:

Be able to assess how much sun a site gets and know what crops will work in each condition
Know what crops you are most suited to growing based on your experience level and time commitment
Lead yourself through a visioning process for your daily garden routine that makes you happy
Create an action plan to help you manage your dream garden

How the class is structured:
The class will have 3 lecture sessions and 2 corresponding discussion groups for the last two lectures. You can watch the video for each session and then a couple days later, I will join your for a discussion to answer ANY questions regarding your particular project. It's mid-season, and I know you probably have a ton of questions if you're already growing! The 3 video lectures will help you polish your garden plans for this season and beyond:

A visioning process that will lead you through journaling and collaging your vision for your new garden
An analysis process will help you assess your resources and find unique ways to co-create your dream with mother nature and maybe your community. Like I mentioned earlier, don’t worry if you don’t have a specific plot of land or space in mind, use this time to manifest the ideal plot.
A planning process will convert your dreams into an action plan that is easy to follow so you can efficiently and confidently manage your garden.

Project Deliverables

Students who have gotten a lot out of this course have created the following deliverables:

Vision Statement
Sun analysis
Site layout
Crop plan
Action Plan
Harvest & Observation Logs

Martha Dickens

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