Achieve Food Self-Sufficiency, Build Soil Fertility and Grow an Abundance of Nutrient Dense Food Year-Round
Simple Guide to Organic Gardening.
A Self-Paced Organic Gardening Course with Personal Q&A Support
Our 2022 gardening course is intended for both beginner and advanced home gardeners looking to gain food security either in your yard or through container growing.
Do you want to grow your own nutrient dense food?
Join our 500+ students who have taken our expert-led online gardening course with live Q&A support from our three experienced growers.
Learn the essentials of organic, no-till vegetable gardening with a special focus on composting, succession planting and winter gardening.
The Natural Way
We believe that the time proven systems in nature are the best way to grow plants. Our gardening principles teach our students to work with nature to maximize success in the garden. We teach you how to nurture soil organisms so that they in turn can feed the garden plants. We know that by fostering a bio-diverse community of plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals in the garden, we are, in a small way, reversing the effects of a changing climate and suffering ecosystems.
This course is created with home gardeners in mind but also includes content that is relevant to market gardeners and for people who want to learn more about regenerative agriculture.
A Community of Learners
We believe that learning in a community setting is conducive to creating deeper and more enduring understandings of the course content. That is why we have created a forum where our family of learners can gather to reflect on the different aspects of the course. The forum allows course participants to share photos of their gardens, reach out for advice and encouragement, and be a source of inspiration to fellow gardens. Gardeners love to share, and this forum is a great way to do that. In addition, we also provide regular Q&A Zoom meetings to give a face to face experience and provide the opportunity to have your questions answered.
Visual Learners
Our lessons are captured on video and delivered to you. They are deliberately unscripted to give our course participants as realistic an experience as possible. Most of the footage is outdoors in real gardens so that the principles can be shown as they are discussed. This is the closest thing to in-person learning.
Our 2022 course content is spread across four modules. An unlinked copy of the video table of contents from our members’ area is appended below. Click/tap each module heading to see the expanded video list:
MODULE A: Building the Soil Food Web
MODULE B: Designing Beautiful Edible Landscapes
MODULE C: Planning & Planting Your Vegetable Garden
Three experts will guide you through LHG’s 2022 course curriculum:
Your primary instructor is Dan Oostenbrink, market gardener at Local Harvest. Dan will help you gain confidence in the garden. He’s passionate about organic growing and gives a practical, no-nonsense approach for gardening that maximizes your garden’s productivity.
Andrew Couzens, a local composting expert at Terra Flora Soilworks, will supply expert guidance on soil health. He will go into detail on the best composting practices including Bokashi (anaerobic), thermophilic and vermicomposting so you can build phenomenal soil fertility, the foundation of great gardening.
Jack, an edible landscape designer and owner of Fruits and Shoots — a boutique garden nursery in Chilliwack, BC — will guide us along the way as we convert our growing space into a beautiful and productive garden.
Our intention is to take growers step-by-step through each season of an entire year. We will guide and support participants year-round by addressing individual questions through our members’ discussion forum, as well as through our regular Q&A webinars (March-October). Our hand-holding will include those who might be in other growing regions with different soil types.
Our aim is to equip gardeners so you can make good decisions in your own context and build confidence to stand on your own two feet for future growing seasons. The principles we share are applicable to all growing regions; they will work with nature and your indigenous biology.
- Learn how to grow food naturally either in your yard or through container growing.
- Build micro-organism and nutrient rich fertile soil through three types of composting.
- How to convert your yard into a beautiful edible landscape.
- Succession planting: how to save seed and achieve a year-round harvest.
- How to incorporate biodiversity to achieve natural, effective pest control.
- How to setup an automatic irrigation system and use cold frames, row covers & greenhouses for season extension.
- Lifetime access to all 2022 course videos.
- 12 months Q&A support through our members’ discussion forum (year-round) and live Zoom meeting webinars (March-Oct).
- 12 months access to Dan (market gardener) and Jack (edible landscape designer) to personally answer any of your growing questions via the forum or webinars.
- Access a fresh stream of seasonally adapted video releases as the growing season progresses.
When you register, you’ll immediately gain access to members’ area which includes the 12 module videos released to date for the 2022 course (currently about 5 hrs of content), plus 22 video vignettes on a range of topics, with more added each month (about 4 hrs of content and growing).
