Home Gardener Series: Growing Organic Leafy Vegetables At Home (22 Feb 2020) PM Class

Home Gardener Series

Date: 22 Feb 2020, SAT
Time: 2.00 PM to 4.30 PM
Venue: The Living Centre, 6A Hindhede Road Singapore 589242 (just 5 mins walk from Beauty World MRT)
Course Fees: SG$88

This is an introductory course that will provide and equip you basic techniques of growing leafy vegetables using containers in your apartment or flats (recommended minimum 5 hours of sun). You will receive learning resources (Vegetable seeds, potting mix, growing containers, organic fertilizers etc) to kickstart your growing of leafy vegetables at home.

Course Content:

- Understanding Potting Mix
- Easy varieties of vegetables to grow in Singapore weather
- Types of Containers to Use for Growing Vegetables
- Basic Pest Management Techniques

(Remarks: You cannot use SkillsFuture Credit to pay for this course fees)

Below are examples of Vegetables grown in containers in apartments /flats in Singapore

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)