
Garden Vocational Training
Our Adult & Teen Challenge Northern New England Women’s Home and Southern New England Women’s Home programs offer Garden Vocational Training for both residents and apprentices. The following is taught on property:
- Preparing soil
- Choosing fertilizer
- Preventing weed trouble
- Organic gardening
- Container gardening for limited spaces
- Basic plant knowledge, hardiness, and planting zones
- Fruit production
- Correcting soil
- Propagation and transplanting seedlings
- Repelling pests and attracting butterflies and hummingbirds
- Therapeutic application of self-acceptance and accomplishment
- Following directions
- Seasonal goals
- Use of gardening tools.
Upon completion residents and apprentices will have the knowledge of one of the world’s most enjoyable and necessary skills.