Our Story: We are a collaborative force with a passion for permaculture design, edible landscape and community based learning and development. The founders, Lily White and Ami Kennedy have had, between them, over 35 years of practical experience in food garden facilitation within a wide range of climatic conditions and community contexts. | . The Germinate Collective is a collaborative community. Our goal is to empower people to become successful organic food gardeners, enabling them to:
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Germinate Workbook
The Germinate Workbook is a guide for beginner gardeners. It outlines the elements you need to consider when growing an edible garden for practical and seasonal learning experiences at home or learning community.
Learners will experience the Germinate Workbook cycle through sowing, growing, maintaining, harvesting, storing, preparing, sharing and eating the bountiful harvest.
Topics covered in the extensive workbook include:
The Ring Binder - The loose leaf format allows the learner gardener and facilitator to add their own information, research and records as their own learning and gardening knowledge and experience develop.
The Germinate Workbook has 393 pages of illustrated text including A3 foldouts.
The Big Picture
- a brief introduction to the foundations of permaculture and edible landscape design
- essential considerations for developing a productive food system for personal learning and an understanding that will build resilient communities
- Monthly overview - sowing, transplanting, harvesting, composting, cover crops, celebrations
- Four learning focuses per month
- Detailed background information
- Seasonally appropriate outdoor and indoor activities
- Learner handouts with a summary of the information
- Seasonal recipes
- Four year crop rotation plan
- Gardening topics covered in more detail
- The living soil
- Water
- Composting systems & structures
- Garden methods
- Seeds, propagation
- Tools & resources
- Useful hard structures
- Useful soft structures
- Garden cafe
- Home & hearth
- Compost making & successional planting plan A3
- Herb care & uses A3
- Glossary
- Books & Resources We Love
We look forward to sharing the journey of growing food and community with you.
Order or buy your own copy at [email protected]
or Phone Ami on 027.357.7998 (in Nelson)
or contact Lily White text only on 021.038.0578