The Germinate Workbook

The Germinate Workbook - a growing guide for beginner gardeners & facilitators - sowing the seeds for resilience

The Germinate Workbook is both a guide for beginner gardeners and those working with 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 communities.

Learners will experience the Germinate Workbook cycle through sowing, growing, maintaining, harvesting, storing, preparing, sharing and eating the bountiful harvest.

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 350+ pages of illustrated text including four 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

Seasonal Guide

• 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

Zooming In

• 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

  • Four Year Crop Rotation A3

  • Compost making & successional planting plan A3

  • Herb care & uses A3

  • Vegetable Life Span Plan A3

• Glossary

• Books & Resources We Love

We look forward to sharing the journey of growing food and community with you.