The longer you stay the deeper you will delve into organic farming in Nepal. 4 days - Basic, 7 days - Intermediate and 15 days - Advanced.

We also offer a 6-week internship program!

 

During your training programs you'll get hands-on experience in organic gardening including seed saving, and community living in its Govardhan Organic Agriculture Resource Center (GOARC) and other farms.

The program will be a combination of organic gardening techniques such as composting, and appropriate technology. We will learn all of these together through hands-on projects with each. Students will learn the organic gardening techniques we use at our resource center through use on their own experiential garden beds and making compost and cultivating micro-organisms themselves.

Learn to prepare liquid organic fertilizer (Panchagavya, Panchapatra, Fish extract, EM -2 etc.) vermicompost, pile compost etc. Aswell as get the opportunity to be involved in an appropriate technology project and learn about the way these can be applied to different contexts.

Topics & techniques

What students will experience during their time in Nepal

Garden skills:

• Introduction of Organic agriculture in Nepal

• Making nursery seedlings and a discussion of what plants need to start as seedlings

• Garden bed making techniques for different seasons and situations, double digging method,

• Composting including composting technique and different uses of animal manure

• Cultivating micro-organisms for making liquid fertilizers

• Companion planting

• Garden care including plant observation and problem solving techniques to understand what plants need

• Integrated pest management

• Making natural pesticides

• harvesting for consumption

• discussions on the importance of seed saving, what is happening with our seed biodiversity now, and active seed saving on the farm