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TRAININGS

Educational Garden Tours are given from two to four times a year at the Willits Mini-Farm Research Garden. They are an opportunity for interested people to see the effectiveness of GROW BIOINTENSIVE sustainable mini-farming. Mini-classes are also given during the tour, illustrating some of the components of GROW BIOINTENSIVE.
(For more information see the Bountiful Gardens Catalog at www.bountifulgardens.org.)

Three-Day Workshops are given twice a year at Willits, California. The workshop is an intensive in-depth study of GROW BIOINTENSIVE sustainable mini-farming, based on our research since 1972. The program consists of lecture, discussion and demonstration, and includes a full range of information on Sustainability and Efficient Resource Use, Crops and Diet, Fertilization, Compost and Compost Crops, Soil Preparation and Preservation, Seed Propagation, and Income, as well as the perspective to tie all these together. Most of the workshop is lecture and classroom work with one afternoon devoted to demonstrations in the Research Garden. Our classes and workshops encourage farmers and gardeners from many corners of the globe to find solutions appropriate to their own context.
(This can also be checked out in the BG Catalog, as above.)

Basic-Level Teacher Training is for those interested principally in teaching others the basic techniques of GROW BIOINTENSIVE. Prerequisites for taking this training include having taken a Three-Day Workshop from a qualified teacher; having grown a GROW BIOINTENSIVE garden of 300-500 square feet, for at least one year following the above workshop, and spending at least one year testing diet crops and compost crops; building and using compost, and keeping records of diet and compost crops. Candidates must also have a thorough understanding of Ecology Action publications.
(For more information see Booklet #30, “GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming Teacher Certification Program.”)

Basic-Level Teacher Certification: An individual who wishes to be certified as a GROW BIOINTENSIVE teacher at the basic level must first have taken the five-day Teacher Training Workshop. There are other requirements for certification once this workshop is completed. (For more information see Booklet 30, as above.)

Internships are for the six-month growing season at the Willits Mini-Farm or at its nearby associate, Golden Rule Garden. Interns are generally people who are already involved in a GROW BIOINTENSIVE project or will be involved in one on their return home. (For more information, write: Ecology Action, 5798 Ridgewood Road, Willits CA 95490.)

Apprenticeships last from one to three years. (For further information, contact Ecology Action, as above, or for full details see GROW BIOINTENSIVE Apprentice Opportunities Booklet.)