Study the practical skills to get independence by growing and harvesting and preserving your own foods.

Course Aims:

• Explain the importance of good diet and nutrition to good health
• Discuss the potential for increasing self sufficiency by growing your own food in a kitchen garden.
• Describe the potential and appropriate procedures for vegetable growing in your area.
• Describe the potential for fruit growing and appropriate fruit growing procedures for your locality.
• Describe the process of practices like bottling to extend the shelf life of produce.
• Explain the process of practices like freezing and drying to extend the shelf life of produce.
• Describe the principles of animal production and processing animal products, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
• Describe growing and cooking with herbs, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
• Describe the use of eggs and cheese where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
• Describe the use of grains in a situation where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

Diet and Nutrition
Establishing a Kitchen Garden
Vegetables
Fruit
Bottling
Freezing and Drying
Producing Milk and Eggs
Growing & Cooking with Herbs
Egg and Cheese Cookery
Grain