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Vertical Farming and Vertical Gardening Online Course- GROW MORE FOOD in a controlled environment using less space!
Vertical Farming and Vertical Gardening has so many benefits- including being able to grow more plants in a smaller space, controlling the light, amount of nutrients and water and using less pesticides on your plants. The popularity of vertical faming has increased over recent years with more and more people wanting to grow their own food without the risk of their crops being damaged due to more unpredictable weather occurrances such as drought, flooding and extreme temperatures.
This course is ideal for providing you with the essentials of starting your own vertical garden, whether for a large commercial crop or for your own small self suffient/ off grid set up. You will learn the benefits of vertical gardening, how you can build you own green wall, all about green facades, how to grow your own food using vertical farming production techniques and systems, how to automate your system, things will need to do to maintain your system and even plants that will grow well using this technique.
When you complete this course, you will also have a handy reference guide to refer to for troubleshooting. You could complete this course and start your own Vertical Farm in a few days.
What's INSIDE the course?
Course Content:
This course spans seven lessons. At the end of each lesson, there is an online self-assessment test. When you have completed all 7 lessons, you will be presented with a longer test, covering all of the course content.
When you successfully complete this test, you can download your Certificate of Completion.
LESSON 1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF VERTICAL GROWING
- Nature of vertical growing
- Green walls
- Green facades
- Crop production
- Scope of vertical growing
- The uniqueness of vertical gardening
- Where to grow
- How to grow
- Benefits of vertical gardening
- Mental wellbeing
- Physical health
- Environment
- Food production
- Reasons to create a green wall
- Understanding biophobia
- Health problems of biophobic design
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 2 BUILDING THE GREEN WALL
- The living wall
- Design and construction of green walls
- Hydroponic systems
- Loose media/substrate systems
- Fixed media systems
- Mat media
- Sheet media
- Customising
- Waterproofing walls
- Weight loading
- Irrigation
- Drainage
- Lighting
- Nutrition
- Other design considerations
- Green wall design
- Design considerations
LESSON 3 GREEN FACADES
- The green façade
- Options for creating green facades
- Some techniques in detail
- Climbing plants
- Hanging baskets
- Window boxes
- Epiphytes
- Espaliers
- Growing plants on trellis
- Hedges
- Wall shrubs
- Green facade preparation
- More on epiphytes
- Succulents in green walls
LESSON 4 VERTICAL FOOD PRODUCTION
- Making use of vertical crop growing
- Hydroponics
- NFT systems
- Alternative layouts for vertical nft systems
- NFT system choices
- Aeroponics
- Gravel and loose culture
- Aquaponics
- Mushroom farms
- Upright systems
- Growing in protective structures
- Greenhouse hydroponics
- Design considerations
- Temperature
- Relative humidity and vapour pressure deficit
- CO2 and O2
- Water
- Plant nutrients
- Control of the environment
- Artificial lighting
- Outdoor vertical food gardens
- Growing cucurbits in vertical systems
- Cultural methods
LESSON 5 AUTOMATION
- The need for automation
- Automated systems
- Irrigation and fertiliser
- Automated irrigation systems for green walls
- Fertigation of green walls
- Monitoring vertical growing systems
- Optimum air quality
- Drone inspections
- Cation exchange capacity
- Measuring ec levels
- Measuring ph levels
- Automated irrigation of hydroponic green walls
- PH tests for hydroponics
- EC testing
- Automatic EC and PH testing and control
- Irrigation pumps
LESSON 6 MAINTENANCE
- The range of maintenance tasks
- Inspection tasks
- Maintenance tasks
- Maintenance of plants
- The nature of plants
- Watering climbers
- Feeding
- Mulching
- Pruning and rejuvenating plants
- Maintaining plants in containers
- Watering
- Feeding
- Re-potting
- Maintenance of hanging baskets
- Problems with containers
- Maintenance of hard landscape components
- Maintaining plant health
- Symptoms and diagnosis
- How to conduct an inspection
- Symptoms of nutrient deficiency
- Pests and diseases problems
- Occupational health and safety
- Duty of care
- Risk assessment
- Identifying hazards and risk
- Example of a risk assessment procedure
- Work place safety
- Safety with tools and equipment
- General safety rules
- Maintaining vertical gardens and farms
- Maintenance issues when retrofitting green walls
- Avoiding problem materials which increase maintenance
LESSON 7 PLANT SELECTION
- Planting considerations
- Plants for green walls
- Plants for green facades
- Climbers to grow on trellis
- Wall shrubs
- Plants for hanging baskets
- Plants for window boxes
- Plants for hedging
- Plants for vertical farms
- Growing strawberries in vertical farms
- Organic of cultivation of strawberries in green wall containers
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