Yilan Chemical-Free Pesticide Vegetable Cultivation Class starts on February 5, 2014

Spring Class Course Brochure: Chemical-Pesticide-Free Vegetable Cultivation

1. Organizer: Rihe Education Foundation

2. Course purpose: Instructor Mr. Wu Xifu, in order to pass on fifty years of agricultural farming experience to the next generation. Cooperating with the Rihe Education Foundation to open a class and teach, in the hope of cultivating farmers who farm in a land-friendly way. And encouraging ordinary people, when growing vegetables in their own gardens, to avoid using chemical pesticides. Therefore this course differs from the usual community garden format, focusing on professional vegetable production techniques.

3. Course start date: February 15, 2014 (Sat)

4. Class time: Every Saturday at 1:30 pm, 18 weeks in total

5. Venue: Nick Seed-Saving Farm (opposite Neicheng Elementary and Junior High School, Yuanshan Township, Yilan County)

6. Enrollment number: 20 people maximum

7. Target students: Friendly small farmers and ordinary people willing to learn professional vegetable cultivation

8. Course incentive: The vegetables and fruits produced by students during the course may be sold on their behalf by the foundation

9. Course fee: Tuition 2000 yuan (including practical farming land, averaging 15 ping per person);

Seed and fertilizer fee 1000 yuan (students elect a class leader, who purchases uniformly according to the types designated by the teacher)

 

10. Registration method:

(1) Register by fax: fill out the registration form, then fax it together with the remittance receipt to 03-9226274

(2) Register by E-mail: fill out the registration form, then E-mail it together with the remittance receipt to [email protected]

(3) Registration contact: You Shengyuan 0928200464, please call with any questions.

(4) Remittance account: Chang Hwa Bank Yilan Branch code009, account number: 4202-5143864-700
Rihe Education Foundation

11. Instructor's resume: Wu Xifu, passed the civil service general examination (agronomy section), technical assistant at the Taipei District Agricultural Improvement Station

Lecturer for the Council of Agriculture's professional farmer training, agricultural production consultant for the Rihe Education Foundation

Taiwan, China technician on overseas agricultural technical missions for more than thirty years (South Africa, Fiji, Gambia and other regions)

12. Course outline

Week	Date	Lecture topic	Field practice
One	2/15	Basics of vegetable cultivation: varieties, seasons, seedling raising Watermelon cultivation methods Seedling raising: watermelon Getting to know the field environment
Two	2/22	Basics of vegetable cultivation: soil Sweet corn cultivation methods Seedling raising: sweet corn Land preparation and bed making
Three	3/1	Basics of vegetable cultivation: fertilizer Cultivation methods for cucumber and cabbage Seedling raising: tomato Getting to know the field environment
Four	3/8	Basics of vegetable cultivation: the interrelationship of soil, fertilizer and climate. Tomato cultivation methods Seedling raising: tomato Getting to know the field environment
Five	3/15	Discussion of issues such as soil, fertilizer, varieties and seasons Legume cultivation, carrot cultivation methods Planting soybean and runner beans Sowing carrots
Six	3/22	Discussion of vegetable growth management in the field Sweet potato cultivation methods Planting sweet potato Vegetable management
Seven	3/29	Making potting soil Cultivation methods for short-term leafy vegetables Use of vegetable growing boxes Seedling raising: lettuce, bok choy Planting cucumber and cabbage
Eight	4/12	1. Discussion of vegetable pests and diseases	1. Planting tomatoes 2. Hilling sweet corn
Nine	4/19	Forcing cultivation methods for leaf sweet potato Use of vegetable growing trays Planting leaf sweet potato Vegetable management
Ten	4/26	Thinning watermelon fruit Pruning tomatoes	1. Vegetable management
Eleven	5/3	1. Knowing when to harvest cucumber and sweet corn	1. Planting short-term leafy vegetables 2. Vegetable management
Twelve	5/10	The difference between root vegetables and tuber vegetables	Vegetable management
Thirteen	5/17	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management
Fourteen	5/24	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management
Fifteen	5/31	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management
Sixteen	6/7	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management
Seventeen	6/14	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management
Eighteen	6/21	Comprehensive discussion of vegetable management	Vegetable management

Registration Form

Name: ID number:

Date of birth: year month day Phone (mobile/home):

Address:

E-mail address:

Farming experience: (for example, 2 years of experience growing vegetables or rice)

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Expectations for taking this course: (for example, hoping to become a farmer in the future or to grow vegetables for my family to eat)

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