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Unit 1: Soil

Unit 2: Organic Soil Management

Unit 3: Plants

Unit 4: Plant Applications

Unit 5: Crop Management

Unit 6: Composting

Unit 7: Marketing and Certification

Unit 8: Practical Applications

Appendix

Fundamentals of Organic Farming and Gardening
An Instructor’s Guide - Revised for 2009

Unit 4 – Plant Applications

Unit overview
Plants can reproduce both sexually and asexually.  Most organic crops are grown from sexually produced seed, though fruit and nursery crop reproduction often involve asexual methods of propagation.

Lesson Text (word doc)
Lesson Plans (word doc)

Teacher Demonstrations
1. Examples of seeds and structure of a large seed
2. Demonstrate taking a stem cutting of a house plant and cutting a potato
3. Demonstrate layering a shrub

Video
The Tasteful Garden Video (.mov)
Focus Questions (word doc)

Student Experiments and Activities
1.  Effect of light on germination (word doc)
2.  Effect of moisture on germination (word doc)
3.  Effect of temperature on germination (word doc)
4.  Soil mixes (word doc)

Power Point Presentations
1. Unit presentation (ppt)
2. Asexual propagation (ppt)
3. Asexual propagation lab (ppt)