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The Sustainable Gardener Course

A step-by-step framework designed to teach you to grow and maintain a wildly successful garden

8 Modules of Powerful Gardening Content

Build a bank of knowledge that includes everything needed to create and maintain a productive backyard food garden in your space. After completing the course, you’ll know exactly how to nurture the elements and ecosystems to support it for endless harvests and increasing success for years to come!

Module 1:
Our Plant Roots

Connect to the potency of a thriving home garden and springboard your motivations to cultivate one. Starting here helps make the powerful choice to garden an exciting must for you and your family:

  • Learn the history of your growing region
  • Break down the science-backed benefits of consuming home-grown produce
  • Shift your mindset toward confidence and connection on the topic of gardening

This module sets the foundation to propel, fuel, and sustain you through the comprehensive 8 week course.

Module 2:
Laying the Groundwork

Optimal placement and proper set up is the key ingredient to saving time, money, and creating efficiency as a gardener. In this module, you’ll:

  • Assess your site to obtain optimal garden placement
  • Learn how to harness existing features in your landscape that will benefit your garden
  • Identify the best garden style and size for your needs and preferences
  • Build resilience into your garden with hoops, covers, and protection

By the end of this module, you’ll feel confident in your garden placement or leave with the ability to troubleshoot and address pitfalls in an existing garden.

Module 3: 
Creating the Ecosystem 

Soil, water, and diversity create the foundation of a successful garden. Any good gardener must understand how these elements synergize to support healthy plant growth. This module teaches you how to:

  • Turn your soil into a powerful, nutrient-rich, food-producing machine
  • Save an incredible amount of time by setting up a basic drip irrigation system
  • Attract a variety of beneficial insects to the garden to naturally combat pest problems

Applying this knowledge will encourage your garden to be more productive with less input and effort. You’ll finish this module with a 3 year soil building plan for your garden and have mapped out an irrigation system that you can easily install.

Module 4:
Knowing Plants

Get to know your growing zone, relevant plant families, and important plant groups. This knowledge will help you build a strong foundation that you can grow on. In these lessons you will:

  • Understand your growing zone and learn the best plants to grow in your area
  • Build your plant vocabulary
  • Discover plant groups and how planting timing can make or break your success

The information in this module gives you the tools to progress as a gardener throughout the years. 

Module 5:
Plants for the Sustainable Garden

Some plants are more challenging to grow than others. This module teaches you:

  • The details on over 30 vegetable crops you can successfully grow in the home garden
  • The power of a planting calendar and optimized garden layout
  • How to incorporate perennial crops to supplement your harvest, extend your season, and encourage biodiversity

You’ll finish these lessons with a clearly defined list of what you’d like to plant in your garden along with important details like spacing, growth habit, and ease to grow for each plant. You’ll also have gained knowledge of many value-added perennials like fruit trees and pollinator-attracting flowers that you can incorporate into your garden area to augment your space and boost your harvest.

Module 6:
Crafting Your Garden Layout and Planting Calendar

“How do I arrange my garden” and “when do I plant what” are some of the most common questions that come up for new gardeners. Certain plants thrive in specific temperature ranges and struggle in others and an optimized garden layout will guarantee you more production. In these lessons, I’ll answer these questions and you’ll learn:

  • How to optimize your garden space with an efficient layout
  • The best timing to plant your garden in your growing zone and why timing is so important to your success

At the completion of these lessons, you will have the perfect garden layout plan and a planting calendar that outlines specific planting dates to help your garden thrive.

Module 7:
Hands in the Soil

How you plant is just as important as layout and timing. Planting technique is important to ensure that your plants get off to a good start. In this module you will learn:

  • The best practices and techniques for sowing and planting
  • Essential tools to help make gardening easier and save you time

Detailed demonstration videos make it easy to apply these techniques in your own garden and prepare you to plant your garden using best practices. 

Module 8:
Keep It Growing

There are a few things you can learn to do to keep your garden healthy and continually producing food with minimal effort. To wrap up the course you will learn:

  • How to easily utilize organic fertilizers
  • Best harvesting practices
  • Organic pest monitoring and management
  • Making effective observations and adjustments
  • Harnessing the power of your natural intuition and curating your green thumb

As the course concludes you’ll have a solid foundation of gardening knowledge that will save you an immense amount of time, effort and money while gaining more production and success. You’ll be fully equipped and confident in designing and maintaining your sustainable veg garden from set-up to harvest and will be able to build on the knowledge you gained throughout this course for years to come.  

Throughout my 12 years of experience, I hear the same questions from those looking to start or improve their garden; How do I get started? What can I do to optimize my space? How can I get better production?  How can I avoid making costly mistakes? And of course… What am I doing wrong?!!
 
I created the The Sustainable Gardener course to answer all of these questions and more… 
to take the guesswork out of gardening!
 
The course, along with my ongoing guidance and support, will save you valuable time, money, and minimize the frustration that comes with the trial and error process. You’ll gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to finally become successful at growing a healthy, backyard food garden! 
 
Let’s have fun! Let’s get gardening!   – Andrea Vanderbilt
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Take the guesswork out of gardening!

8 Modules of Powerful Gardening Content

Build a bank of knowledge that includes everything needed to create and maintain a productive backyard food garden in your space. After completing the course, you’ll know exactly how to nurture the elements and ecosystems to support it for endless harvests and increasing success for years to come!

Module 1:
Our Plant Roots

Connect to the potency of a thriving home garden and springboard your motivations to cultivate one. Starting here helps make the powerful choice to garden an exciting must for you and your family:

  • Learn the history of your growing region
  • Break down the science-backed benefits of consuming home-grown produce
  • Shift your mindset toward confidence and connection on the topic of gardening

This module sets the foundation to propel, fuel, and sustain you through the comprehensive 8 week course.

Module 2:
Laying the Groundwork

Optimal placement and proper set up is the key ingredient to saving time, money, and creating efficiency as a gardener. In this module, you’ll:

  • Assess your site to obtain optimal garden placement
  • Learn how to harness existing features in your landscape that will benefit your garden
  • Identify the best garden style and size for your needs and preferences
  • Build resilience into your garden with hoops, covers, and protection

By the end of this module, you’ll feel confident in your garden placement or leave with the ability to troubleshoot and address pitfalls in an existing garden.

Module 3: 
Creating the Ecosystem 

Soil, water, and diversity create the foundation of a successful garden. Any good gardener must understand how these elements synergize to support healthy plant growth. This module teaches you how to:

  • Turn your soil into a powerful, nutrient-rich, food-producing machine
  • Save an incredible amount of time by setting up a basic drip irrigation system
  • Attract a variety of beneficial insects to the garden to naturally combat pest problems

Applying this knowledge will encourage your garden to be more productive with less input and effort. You’ll finish this module with a 3 year soil building plan for your garden and have mapped out an irrigation system that you can easily install.

Module 4:
Knowing Plants

Get to know your growing zone, relevant plant families, and important plant groups. This knowledge will help you build a strong foundation that you can grow on. In these lessons you will:

  • Understand your growing zone and learn the best plants to grow in your area
  • Build your plant vocabulary
  • Discover plant groups and how planting timing can make or break your success

The information in this module gives you the tools to progress as a gardener throughout the years. 

Module 5:
Plants for the Sustainable Garden

Some plants are more challenging to grow than others. This module teaches you:

  • The details on over 30 vegetable crops you can successfully grow in the home garden
  • The power of a planting calendar and optimized garden layout
  • How to incorporate perennial crops to supplement your harvest, extend your season, and encourage biodiversity

You’ll finish these lessons with a clearly defined list of what you’d like to plant in your garden along with important details like spacing, growth habit, and ease to grow for each plant. You’ll also have gained knowledge of many value-added perennials like fruit trees and pollinator-attracting flowers that you can incorporate into your garden area to augment your space and boost your harvest.

Module 6:
Crafting Your Garden Layout and Planting Calendar

“How do I arrange my garden” and “when do I plant what” are some of the most common questions that come up for new gardeners. Certain plants thrive in specific temperature ranges and struggle in others and an optimized garden layout will guarantee you more production. In these lessons, I’ll answer these questions and you’ll learn:

  • How to optimize your garden space with an efficient layout
  • The best timing to plant your garden in your growing zone and why timing is so important to your success

At the completion of these lessons, you will have the perfect garden layout plan and a planting calendar that outlines specific planting dates to help your garden thrive.

Module 7:
Hands in the Soil

How you plant is just as important as layout and timing. Planting technique is important to ensure that your plants get off to a good start. In this module you will learn:

  • The best practices and techniques for sowing and planting
  • Essential tools to help make gardening easier and save you time

Detailed demonstration videos make it easy to apply these techniques in your own garden and prepare you to plant your garden using best practices. 

Module 8:
Keep It Growing

There are a few things you can learn to do to keep your garden healthy and continually producing food with minimal effort. To wrap up the course you will learn:

  • How to easily utilize organic fertilizers
  • Best harvesting practices
  • Organic pest monitoring and management
  • Making effective observations and adjustments
  • Harnessing the power of your natural intuition and curating your green thumb

As the course concludes you’ll have a solid foundation of gardening knowledge that will save you an immense amount of time, effort and money while gaining more production and success. You’ll be fully equipped and confident in designing and maintaining your sustainable veg garden from set-up to harvest and will be able to build on the knowledge you gained throughout this course for years to come.  

The Sustainable Gardener Course

3 Enrollment Options

Thanksgiving Sale 3 days only

40% OFF all course options

Don’t Miss this opportunity to learn to garden for the upcoming 2024 season

Ends Monday, November 27th At midnight

Independent Grower

$547

$328

Supported
Grower

$697

$418

Accelerated
Grower

$1,297

$778

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Enrollment for the course closes November 30th!!!

Gear up for 2024! Learn How to Garden this winter, enrollment for our flagship course closes November 30th!

The Sustainable Gardener Course

3 Enrollment Options

Thanksgiving Sale 3 days only

40% OFF all course options

Don’t Miss this opportunity to learn to garden for the upcoming 2024 season

Ends Monday, November 27th At midnight

Independent Grower

$547

$328

Supported
Grower

$697

$418

Accelerated
Grower

$1,297

$778

What's included in The Sustainable Gardener Course packages

Frequently asked questions

The Sustainable Gardener course is designed for those who:

  • Have always wanted to garden but don’t know where to start.
  • Have a garden already but know there’s room for improvement and want to supercharge your success.
  • Feel overwhelmed by all of the information online and need guidance to start or improve your garden.
  • Want to become more self-sustainable and learn how to grow healthier food in your backyard.
  • Want to explore a deeper connection to nature and create a functional landscape for you and your family.

You’ll gain access to all materials and modules upon enrollment. Although the course is go at your own pace, it’s designed to take you through one module per week, allowing you to complete the course in 8 weeks. We recommend dedicating 2-4 hours per week to work through the lessons and supporting materials in each of the 8 modules.

Yes, there are a few tools and supplies that are necessary to create and maintain a successful veg garden. We’ll provide you with this list in the Welcome module, which is instantly available after enrolling in the course.

You will receive access to office hours for 3 months post enrollment. Office hours are held by the instructor each week on Wednesdays via Zoom. This is a unique opportunity for you to drop in anytime throughout the hour to have your questions answered in real-time by the instructor and to learn from your fellow classmates!

Our proven, step-by-step approach is created by gardening experts to transform nervous new and beginner gardeners into confident, successful, and well-rounded growers. This is the only gardening course you will ever need to take!

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