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Apprenticeship Curriculum
Klippers’s Apprenticeship Curriculum
Practical Growing Skills
The majority of practical work will be sowing, planting, weeding and harvesting vegetable crops.
Use and maintain a variety of hand-tools
Use small machinery
Identify and use workshop tools correctly
Safely drive a tractor in simple maneuvers
Explain safety hazards when using tractors
Identify major parts of a tractor
Carry out routine checks on a tractor
Estimate soil moisture by feel
Set out and trouble-shoot drip irrigation
Set out and trouble-shoot sprinkler & micro jet irrigation system
Mix up propagation mix and describe alternative ways of mixing up
Propagate from seed
Propagate from cuttings
Prick out
Pot up
Direct seed by hand and using an Earthway Seeder
Transplant crops
Take a soil sample for soil testing
Construct a compost heap
Use a tractor-mounted front-loader to turn compost
Monitor compost temperature
Identify all crops grown at Klipper’s Organics
Differentiate vegetable seedlings from weed seedlings.
Identify noxious weeds
Hand weed a variety of crops
Recognize presence of pests and diseases
Maintain perennial herbs and vegetables – weed, prune, divide
Make salves and lipbalm with herbs (an introduction)
Prune and train apple trees, peach, and plum trees
Prune and train tomato and cucumber plants
Harvest and prepare vegetables, herbs, and fruit for sale
Crop planning
- Use a Farm record-keeping system
- Estimate plants/area needed
- Estimate yield
- Plan a rotation
Sustainable Farming Practices Units
Making Compost
Tillage and Cultivation
Managing Soil Fertility and Soil Health Assessment
Selecting and using Cover Crops
Use of Soil Amendments and Fertilizers
Including interpreting soil test results
Irrigation, Principles and Practices
Post-Harvest Handling and Storage
Promoting Biodiversity
Managing Weeds
Managing Plant Pathogens
Managing Arthropod Pests
Integration of Livestock
Farm Organization and Communication Units
Business Planning
Purchasing a farm/land
Marketing
Health and Safety
On Farm Food Safety
Organic Certification
Possibilities for other area
Working with bees at local apiaries
Working with a wine maker/fermintation
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