Village Vegetable and Community Gardens 303

An 8-week, self-paced training program in launching a family vegetable garden or community gardening project working in partnership with local community members. By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have facilitated a family nutrition workshop and planned, designed and planted a demonstration garden.

Village Vegetable and Community Gardens: Learn by doing.

This course is for NGO and donor staff—and job-seekers wanting to successfully solve their community’s challenges sustainably. Participants have worked on projects such as food security, community gardens, family gardens and inner city vegetable gardens. The course will lead you through the development of similar, real projects, in real time, with members of your own community.

How will you you learn about Village Vegetable Gardens?

A dual approach will be used in this course:

1. The course will lead you through the development of a real vegetable garden project, in real time, and leave you with the practical field tools to sustain it. We are committed to helping you achieve results-based nutritional impact.
2. For the long-term sustainability of your project you will learn to incorporate community identified need into the design of your project. You will research project activities that have shown evidence of having worked at solving hunger and malnutrition for at-risk families.

Who should take this Village Vegetable Gardens course?

1. This course is perfect for  development professionals working in areas such as food security, health, sustainable development, or community development—and who want to develop practitioner-level skills. If you are a grant writer, NGO staff member, consultant, project manager—or an executive director—you will develop real skills mastery.
2. This course is just as relevant to a person considering a career transition into the development world and wanting to develop employable skills.

This training program is offered in two tracks:

1. International development for the Global South. If your NGO works with members of communities in developing nations in regions like Asia, Africa or Latin America—this is the course for you.
2. Nonprofits and charities in the Global North. If you work with members of communities in places like North America, Europe, the UK or Australia—Community Gardens—How Nonprofits Can Help Family Nutrition would be better.