Culinary Herbs, Certificate | Part time online | Warnborough College | United Kingdom
4 days
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Join this Culinary Herbs course from Warnborough College and learn how to identify and successfully grow dozens of common and uncommon edible herbs. Develop your skills and experience the delights of cooking adventurous new recipes with herbs. Learn drying and other methods of preserving the flavour (eg. herb oils, salts, vinegars).

Overview

This Culinary Herbs course from Warnborough College consists of eight lessons which cover common and less common herbs used for cooking.

Course aims

  • Describe the plant naming system, the major family groups that herbs fall into and the resources available to the culinary herb grower.
  • Describe how to manage the cultural requirements of culinary herbs.
  • Describe the various methods of propagation, both sexual and asexual, the treatments generally used for seed storage and the handling of cutting material.
  • Explain the way in which herbs are used in cooking and which herbs best suit various dishes.
  • Discuss the most common herb varieties used in cooking.
  • Compare a range of culinary herbs in a single plant family.
  • Discuss a range of lesser grown culinary herb varieties.
  • Explain the uses of a range of culinary herbs within a specific group of herb plants.

Programme Structure

Lessons:

  • Culture - Planting, staking, mulching, watering, pest & disease, feeding, pruning, protection from wind, salt air, etc.
  • Propagation
  • Cooking with Herbs - Culinary uses of herbs, herb teas and recipes; Fresh and dried herb use
  • The Most Commonly Grown Varieties - Garlic, parsley and chives
  • Other Important Groups - The Lamiaceae family: one of the most aromatic and flavoursome herb families
  • The Lesser Grown Varieties - How to cook with lesser known herbs
  • Special Assignment - On one selected plant or group

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 4 days

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
  • You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.

Language

English

Delivered

Online
  • Self-paced

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Tuition Fee

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    395 GBP/full
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    Based on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
  • National

    395 GBP/full
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    Based on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.

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