Face to Face Course - Home Gardener Series: Aquaponics for Growing Nutritious Leafy Vegetables (30 Jan 2021) AM

Home Gardener Series

 

 

Date: 30 Jan 2021, SAT
Time: 9.30 AM to 12.00 Noon
Venue: The Living Centre, 2 Hindhede Road Singapore 589239 (just 5 mins walk from Beauty World MRT)
Course Fees: SG$108 (today early bird special pay SG$98 instead of SG$108)

 

This is an hands on course that will provide and equip you basic techniques of growing leafy vegetables using aquaponics in your apartment or flats (recommended minimum 5 hours of sun  or existing LED grow lights). You will receive learning resources (Vegetable seeds, growing medium.etc) to kickstart your growing of leafy vegetables at home.

Course Content:

- Understanding Aquaponics 
- Identify Easy varieties of vegetables to grow in Singapore weather
- Types of Small Scale Aquaponics Set Up that can be done at home using easily available materials
- Types of Fishes easier for Home Growers
- Basic Maintainance of home aquaponics (managing pH, and other parameters)
- Foundation Pest Management Techniques in Aquaponics Systems

 Suitable for:

This class is suitable for home growers who wishes to grow leafy vegetables at home using aquaponics. 4 Types of Systems are taught that are suitable for HDB/Apartments.

 

Hands On Learning

"goldfish gold fish aquarium" by watts_photos is licensed under CC BY 2.0

 

 

"Gold Fish" by Chetan Bisariya is licensed under CC BY 2.0

 Discover the science behind natural nutrition cycle where fish and leafy vegetables co-exists in a system at home!

 Discover how to set up your own system in your house /flat / apartment!

 

Trainer:

Faith is the Founder of The Living Centre, and is professionally trained in Nutritional Farming in Australia as well as High Tech farming from Netherlands (HAS University of Applied Sciences). With expert knowledge in both Soil-Based and Soil-less Agriculture, she also lead the first series of Urban Farming SkillsFuture courses supported by SkillsFuture Singapore. Besides providing professional training in hydroponics Singapore to the public, local university and lecturers from polytechnics, she also provides consultancy to commercial hydroponic farms.  Her belief in wholistic living is based on 2 fundamental aspects of Human Health: Nutritional Health from growing and consuming great quality agricultural crops, and Emotional Health through emotional wellness and balance. 

She has been invited as a key speaker at key gardening and edible farming events, including "Community Garden Festival", "Gardeners'Day Out" organised by Nparks Singapore. Faith believes in changing lives through imparting skills and knowledge to local growers in farms and gardening community. She is also an certified advanced practitioner in EFT (EFTi) and Matrix Reimprinting (EFTMR)

Location:
The training held at The Living Centre (2 Hindhede Road, S589239)
The location is within 5 mins walk from the nearest Public Transport Bus Stop or 7 mins walk from Beauty World MRT.

(Directions and map details will be sent to you via email about 1 week before the event)