A step on from Self-Sufficiency 1 this course will develop your cooking, bottling and productive gardening skills whilst at the same time emphasising health and nutrition. Understand the importance of good health in a self-sufficient lifestyle and how to provide your own food.
Why Study this Self Sufficiency Advanced Course?
Do you want to learn how you can improve your abilities in producing your needs for yourself? Do you want to learn how you can prepare a well-balanced diet every day using your own skills? Then this online self sufficiency advanced course may just be the one you are looking for! This course will teach you how to establish your own kitchen garden, how to grow vegetables and fruits, how to produce milk and eggs, and more.
Learn to be self sufficient with your food. You learn about nutrition and how to balance your diet, as well as how to produce, process, store and use all types of food; including berries, nuts, milk, cheese, eggs, bread making, preserves, & dried foods. Cookery, freezing, drying, bottling, making bread, planning a vegetable garden and more.
Self paced study
100 hours
Get self sufficient in the kitchen!
Learn traditional skills.
Course Aims
Explain the importance of good diet and nutrition to good health
Discuss the potential for increasing self sufficiency by growing your own food in a kitchen garden.
Describe the potential and appropriate procedures for vegetable growing in your area.
Describe the potential for fruit growing and appropriate fruit growing procedures for your locality.
Describe the process of practices like bottling to extend the shelf life of produce.
Explain the process of practices like freezing and drying to extend the shelf life of produce.
Describe the principles of animal production and processing animal products, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe growing and cooking with herbs, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe the use of eggs and cheese where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe the use of grains in a situation where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Course Outline
There are 10 lessons in this course:
Diet and Nutrition
Introduction to good health
Science of nutrition
Nutritive Values of different foods
Effects of Inadequate Nutrition
Food allergies
Water
How to be a Vegetarian
Vegetables -nutritive value, fibre
Health Basics, Natural Body Cycles
Major Food Groups,
Dietary Sources for different nutrients
Choosing and Using Vegetables
Understanding Carbohydrates and Diet
Fats, Protiens, Minerals and Diet
Energy Production
Recipes and A well balanced diet.
Living a Well Balanced Life -eating, exercise, etc
Establishing a Kitchen Garden
Why Grow Herbs and Vegetables
Deciding food plants that can be grown in your garden,
What you can grow, and how you might use it
Designing a productive garden.
Managing Water for Optimum Value
Integrated Pest Management
No Dig Growing Method
Permaculture Gardening
Biodynamic Growing
Other Growing Methods
Understanding and Managing Soil
Getting Started with a Vegetable Garden
Vegetables
Growing Vegetables from Seed
Transplanting Seedlings, Crowns, Offsets and Tubers
Using Cold Frames or Cloches
Culture for specific types of vegetables, including:
A step on from Self-Sufficiency 1 this course will develop your cooking, bottling and productive gardening skills whilst at the same time emphasising health and nutrition. Understand the importance of good health in a self-sufficient lifestyle and how to provide your own food.
Why Study this Self Sufficiency Advanced Course?
Do you want to learn how you can improve your abilities in producing your needs for yourself? Do you want to learn how you can prepare a well-balanced diet every day using your own skills? Then this online self sufficiency advanced course may just be the one you are looking for! This course will teach you how to establish your own kitchen garden, how to grow vegetables and fruits, how to produce milk and eggs, and more.
Learn to be self sufficient with your food. You learn about nutrition and how to balance your diet, as well as how to produce, process, store and use all types of food; including berries, nuts, milk, cheese, eggs, bread making, preserves, & dried foods. Cookery, freezing, drying, bottling, making bread, planning a vegetable garden and more.
Self paced study
100 hours
Get self sufficient in the kitchen!
Learn traditional skills.
Course Aims
Explain the importance of good diet and nutrition to good health
Discuss the potential for increasing self sufficiency by growing your own food in a kitchen garden.
Describe the potential and appropriate procedures for vegetable growing in your area.
Describe the potential for fruit growing and appropriate fruit growing procedures for your locality.
Describe the process of practices like bottling to extend the shelf life of produce.
Explain the process of practices like freezing and drying to extend the shelf life of produce.
Describe the principles of animal production and processing animal products, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe growing and cooking with herbs, where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe the use of eggs and cheese where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Describe the use of grains in a situation where someone is seeking to improve dietary self sufficiency.
Course Outline
There are 10 lessons in this course:
Diet and Nutrition
Introduction to good health
Science of nutrition
Nutritive Values of different foods
Effects of Inadequate Nutrition
Food allergies
Water
How to be a Vegetarian
Vegetables -nutritive value, fibre
Health Basics, Natural Body Cycles
Major Food Groups,
Dietary Sources for different nutrients
Choosing and Using Vegetables
Understanding Carbohydrates and Diet
Fats, Protiens, Minerals and Diet
Energy Production
Recipes and A well balanced diet.
Living a Well Balanced Life -eating, exercise, etc
Establishing a Kitchen Garden
Why Grow Herbs and Vegetables
Deciding food plants that can be grown in your garden,
What you can grow, and how you might use it
Designing a productive garden.
Managing Water for Optimum Value
Integrated Pest Management
No Dig Growing Method
Permaculture Gardening
Biodynamic Growing
Other Growing Methods
Understanding and Managing Soil
Getting Started with a Vegetable Garden
Vegetables
Growing Vegetables from Seed
Transplanting Seedlings, Crowns, Offsets and Tubers
Using Cold Frames or Cloches
Culture for specific types of vegetables, including:
