Schedule
We start our days early due to the heat of the desert, break during the hot hours of the day, and wrap up in the evenings when it gets a bit cooler. There are a variety of different things we have in store for you, some of which are:
- Soil enhancement through organic soil amendments, composting, mulching, green manure, and minimal till farming.
- Applications of vermiculture & uses of E.M. technologies
- Drip irrigation technology – design, layout, implementation, and maintenance
- Water quality and storage: capture and conservation methods
- Agroforestry: principles, design & implementation
- Organic farming: principles, ethics, design, and implementation
- Introduction to permaculture design philosophy
- Vertical garden bag farming
- Rehabilitation and development of pasture: grass identification, seed collection, and importance of re-seeding natural rangelands
- Intensive fodder production
- Integrated Pest Management: identification and control of diseases & pests using biological controls
- The development of value chains: aloe, moringa, medicinal, and timber tree cultivation
- Nursery practice: germination, propagation, budding & grafting of fruit trees, and out-planting of production and indigenous tree species