1 Day Course on Grow Fruits Successfully in Singapore (15 Feb 2020)

Course Overview

Are you a Singapore Citizen ≥ 25 years old ? All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses, including this course. 

Join this course and master the fundamentals to growing fruits!

This course is suitable for growers (HDB, Apartment, Landed Properties and Commercial Farm also)

During our comprehensive course, you will understand the key fundamentals of growing fruits in soil. 

Here are the topics that you will learn in the course:

• Key Principles to Growing Fruits Plants in Soil
• Suitable Varities to grow in Singapore weather that can be harvest in 2 years or less E.g. are Watermelons, Melons, Tomatoes, Eggplant Fruit, Lime, Passion Fruit, Papaya, Banana..etc)
• Propogation Methods
• Soil Type, Sun Requirements, Water Requirements
• Fertilising Requirements
• Basic Pest Management and Harvesting of Fruits Plants
• Techniques to save seeds from Open-Pollinated Varieties

Average class duration is 7 hours

This Course Includes

	Detailed explanation and tips from trainer
	Hands-on practical guidance and practice in course (air-conditioned training room, with both indoor and outdoor practical learning)
	Course materials to use during the course
	Notes
	Light Refreshments

 Reviews:

Enjoyed the learning experience, understanding impt of flower pollination and
all the practical hands-on. Will recommend my gardening friends. 
~  Sam

I now understand that watermelon and rockmelon can be grown in containers too!
excited to grow my own after the course.
~   Jenny

An Example of Harvesting tomatoes grown in Containers

 

An Example of Growing Eggplants in Containers

Grow Passionfruit in container or on land!

Our harvest of Melon Grown in A Container!

 

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 (6A Hindhede Road, S589242)
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)

Course Fees : SG$199

#All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses. You can use SkillsFuture credit to pay for up to the full course fee if you have enough credit in your SkillsFuture credit account. 
For individuals sent by company to attend the training, there is also a training grant available (click on the funding tab above to view more details).

 

Course Code: CRS-N-0040159

SkillsFuture Funding Validity Period:  19 Feb 2019 - 18 Feb 2020

Mode of Training : Theory and Hands-on Practical Learning

How to register for the course?

Click the "Register" Button below

How do I pay for the course?
This class is SkillsFuture Credit claimable. 

• All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses, including this course.  If you have enough SkillsFuture Credit, you can use it to pay for full course fees. If you don't have enough SkillsFuture Credit, you can partially pay by cash.  Click Register button at the bottom of this page and select payment mode as "Using My SkillsFuture Credit". An email with instructions will be send to you on how to apply for SkillsFuture to pay for course fees.) 
  
  
• If you do not have SkillsFuture Credit, you can pay by credit card or debit card.