A Beginners Guide To Sustainable Gardening

Free Download What you'll learn
How to Garden Sustainably
How to Re-cyle and Reuse Items to help cut down on waste
How to learn more about techniques that will save you time and money
Learn about best practice to help the environment and achieve and understanding of basic sustainablility
Requirements
The only requirements are a desire to learn about gardening and how to garden sustainably
Description
The ideas presented will take into account what's needed to help you implement a sustainable way of gardening and maintaining your outdoor space without the need to buy new materials all the time.It contains hands on methods and techniques guiding you through what you can achieve with the conservation of resources and helping yourself and our environment by not adding to the need for new products which use precious energy and materials in their production and distribution.Ultimately what you do has an effect by not adding to unnecessary waste and it also saves you money.This course is geared to people that are interested in growing plants but may not know about basic methods of how to grow in a sustainable and eco-friendly way.The ideas presented by Dean are tried and trusted by other gardeners and organisations and can be easily incorporated into any outdoor space or garden to a greater or lesser degree depending on your needs and preferences.Whilst going through the ideas in the course you can use the ones that you feel apply to your own needs and create bigger or smaller versions of the techniques to suit your own requirements.Essentially these are basic techniques and ideas for beginners and as such geared towards people that are taking their first steps in sustainability and in some cases growing new types of plants giving the opportunity to begin gardening in new ways.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: What is Sustainability?
Lecture 2 What is Sustainability?
Section 3: Hugel Kulture
Lecture 3 Hugel Kulture
Lecture 4 Hugel Kulture stage two
Section 4: A sustainable Garden Pond
Lecture 5 A Wildlife Garden Pond
Lecture 6 Pond Surround Plants
Section 5: Re-cyling Timber
Lecture 7 Make shelves from a wooden crate
Section 6: Repurposing Containers
Lecture 8 Repurposing Small Containers
Section 7: An Alpine Garden
Lecture 9 A sustainable Alpine garden introduction
Lecture 10 An Alpine garden next stage
Section 8: A sustainable Terrarium
Lecture 11 Creating a sustainable terrarium
Section 9: Water conservation
Lecture 12 Water conservation
Section 10: Compost
Lecture 13 Compost
Section 11: A Bug hotel
Lecture 14 Create a bug hotel from recycled materials
Section 12: A sustainable outdoor building
Lecture 15 Dean's sustainable cabin
Beginners to Sustainability and in some cases Beginners to Gardening and Food Growth,People interested in saving resources and recycling


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