Fundamentals of Organic Farming and Gardening

An Instructor’s Guide

This curriculum gives instructors lessons, experiments, and activities to teach the scientific basis for Organic Farming and Gardening. This curriculum was developed by Alexander McGregor, Jerry Larson, and Lynn Pugh of Cane Creek Farm with funding from Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) and the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF).

This curriculum can be used in its entirety as a full course, or selected sections can be inserted as a supplement to a general course on agriculture or gardening. The design assumes that instructors will have access to curricula that cover general agricultural topics, such as tillage and cultivation equipment, and greenhouse management. Information in these areas is limited in this curriculum to specific organic management techniques which may not be included in existing curricula.