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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 8 – Practical Applications

Unit overview
This unit presents a plan for a demonstration organic bed to be prepared by a class and used as an adjunct to the instruction of this curriculum.  These activities should be done in conjunction with the other units.

Lesson Text (word doc)

Student Experiments and Activities
1. Soil test (word doc)
2. Double digging (word doc)
           
Power Point Presentations
1. Tool Identification (ppt)
2. Double digging (ppt)
3. Soil sample and analysis (ppt)