Dartington Subsidiary Diploma in Sustainable Horticulture

Dartington Subsidiary Diploma in Sustainable Horticulture

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Course Level: Level 3 Course Duration: 1 year Days at College Tuesday, Wednesday Course Description

The level three course will enable you to experience working alongside three pioneering horticultural projects on the Dartington Estate: the nationally renowned 21st Century Dartington Hall gardens set in a splendid medieval landscape; School Farm, a community-focused market garden developing low carbon growing technology and working to organic standards; and the forest garden around the internationally acclaimed Schumacher College, which is successfully demonstrating the potential for ecological land management practices including forest gardening techniques.

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Course Level: Level 3 Course Duration: 1 year Days at College Tuesday, Wednesday Course Description

The level three course will enable you to experience working alongside three pioneering horticultural projects on the Dartington Estate: the nationally renowned 21st Century Dartington Hall gardens set in a splendid medieval landscape; School Farm, a community-focused market garden developing low carbon growing technology and working to organic standards; and the forest garden around the internationally acclaimed Schumacher College, which is successfully demonstrating the potential for ecological land management practices including forest gardening techniques.

School Farm is a community-focused market garden that is developing low carbon growing technology according to a minimum tillage and low-mechanisation policy and working to bring land back into organic certified status. Growing food and flowers for a local market by engaging the local community as apprentice volunteers and customers is an essential part of the business model and is paving the way for many emerging market gardens across the country. The nationally renowned 21st Century Dartington Hall gardens are set in a splendid medieval landscape. They have been the centre of an experiment in rural regeneration and horticulture since the 1930s and attract thousands of visitors a year. Wildflower meadows and regenerating orchid populations are among the many features of these gardens that make them an excellent place to learn the skills that will be required by heritage gardeners of the future as we build biodiversity back into our managed landscape and develop ways to grow with less dependence on fossil fuels.

The gardens at the internationally acclaimed Schumacher College are successfully demonstrating the potential for ecological land management practices including forest gardening and permaculture in commercial and domestic horticulture. The importance of forest gardening has recently been the focus of national media attention as it has potential to significantly increase the productivity and biodiversity of our food production systems whilst massively reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.

To book a place on this course, or to make an enquiry, either call 01395 562408 or email Claire.Birchett@bicton.ac.uk.

What You Will Study
  • Develop skills, knowledge and understanding towards working in the horticultural industry at a supervisory level.
  • Provide opportunities for progression into employment or the development of skills, knowledge and understanding through education and training for those working in the horticultural industry.
  • Provide opportunities to gain nationally recognised Level 3 vocationally related qualifications for potential progression to further learning opportunities at Level 3 or progression to Level 4.
  • Develop knowledge of the range of opportunities available for those working in the horticultural industry.

This Level 3 course covers the following modules:

301 Understanding the principles of plant science: This module gives you an understanding of the principles of plant science and how these can be applied in practice. By studying structures, function and plant physiology

351 Understanding the principles of soil science: This module gives you an understanding of the principles of soil science identifying the characteristics of different soils in relation to plant growth

303 Undertake an investigative project in the Land Based Sector: This module gives you understanding of the principles of undertaking an investigative project and how this can be put into practice. Giving you and opportunity to study in more depth a subject of interest to you.

310 Undertake horticultural production techniques – protected indoors: This module gives you an understanding of how to undertake horticultural production techniques in a protected environment and how these can be applied in practice by growing a range of suitable crops.

315 Understand the principles of organic crop production: This module equips you with the skills and understanding of the principles of organic crop production and how this can be applied in practice. Through the production of a range of crops in which the soil fertility is improved, suitable markets explored and pest and diseases controlled.

Unit 316 Understand the Principles of Sustainable Development: This module introduces you to the Gaia hypothesis, ecology and human impacts on the environment, social and economic aspects of sustainability, and international conventions and strategies related to sustainability.

330 Understand the principles and practices of landscape and garden design: This module gives you an understanding of the principles and practices of landscape and garden design and how these can be applied in practice. This is achieved through the production of a landscape design plan incorporating design principles and your own ideas.

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