Organic Farming

Overview

What you will learn

The key benefits of the Organic Farming course offered by Warnborough College are:

• Boost your knowledge on organic farming in the modern world

• Improve your business-running capabilities

• Improve your career prospects

• Learn from our Organic Farming Tutors

Course Aims

• Investigate Organic industry such as, Certifying Organisations, Producers or organic farming groups in your locality or region.

• Determine allowable inputs to an organic farm certifying in your area.

• Discuss how an organic farm requires more labour than a conventional farm.

• Visit an organic farm, either a real visit or virtual visit if that is not possible.

• Prepare a plan for an organic farm.

• Describe the conversion process for one of the organic farms.

• Investigate organic market potential.

• Prepare a compost heap.

• Prepare a diagram of a healthy soil food web.

• Prepare a weed collection (25 weeds – either pressings or illustrations).

• Determine appropriate weed control within allowable organic farming limits.

• Describe the life cycle of three animal parasites.

• Describe habitat requirements of various predatory insects.

• Survey one or more farms regarding animal production systems.

• How can the animals above be integrated into a vegetable or fruit production system.

• Determine organic solutions to different farming problems.

• Investigate different pasture management systems.