- Location: Mountrath Enterprise Park, Portlaoise Road, Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Duration: 6 Weeks
Course details
Aim:
This course is a must if you want to understand the essence of organic gardening. At the end of this course you will be equipped to start your own kitchen garden and this course will show you how.
Course content:
- Planning your garden and poly-tunnel
- Soil composition
- Composting
- Calendar of sewing & companion planting
- Spacing vegetables
- Weeds & their uses
- Interaction between plants & their environment
- Vegetable varieties, sewing & planting
- Tools, mulching & hoeing
- Bio-dynamic approach & the bio-intensive system
About Midland Energy Training & Assessment Centre METAC
METAC Training is the largest energy training and assessment centre in Ireland and the UK and trains approximately 2,700 people annually. Their realistic training facilities equip people with practical skills for the modern workforce that are nationally recognised by FAS/SOLAS, FETAC/QQI, City & Guilds, UKAS, Bord Gais and OFTEC, amongst others. All cTheirses They run are independently certified and verified by external agencies.
In September 2010, They invested and installed a 16 metre 6KW wind turbine and accompanying Photovoltaic systems at Their centre which was supported and grant aided by Laois Partnership Ltd. making us the first and only training centre to do so. This facility now allows us to expand Their renewable energy training to incorporate wind training.
On completion of Their cTheirses all participants are equipped with practical skills that are nationally recognised by FAS/SOLAS, Bord Gais, City & Guilds and OFTEC.
See all Midland Energy Training & Assessment Centre METAC courses- Mastering Container Gardening Global EdulinkAED 134Duration: Upto 3 Hours
- Gardening for Anything Global EdulinkAED 134Duration: Upto 6 Hours
