Soil to Harvest: Beginner Crop Production Essentials
About This Course
Soil to Harvest: Beginner Crop Production Essentials is a practical, step‑by‑step starter course that takes learners from assessing a field to harvesting a healthy crop, with an emphasis on soil health, planting, water, nutrition, pests, and safe, efficient harvest practices.
Learning Objectives
Diagnose basic soil limitations and create a soil improvement plan using pH, texture, and organic matter indicators.
Select varieties and plan planting windows based on climate, soil moisture, and day length for key staple and market garden crops.
Calibrate seeding rates and spacing, and execute bed/row prep and tillage or no‑till setups appropriately.
Design simple irrigation schedules and choose between drip, sprinkler, or furrow for water‑use efficiency.
Build a starter fertility program integrating composts, manures, and low‑risk mineral fertilizers with timing aligned to crop demand.
Implement basic integrated pest, disease, and weed management with scouting, thresholds, and safe interventions.
Determine harvest maturity, plan harvest logistics, and apply basic post‑harvest handling to protect quality and reduce losses.
Target Audience
- New and aspiring farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners moving into field‑scale crops who need a structured foundation from soil prep to harvest readiness checks.
- Learners seeking applied methods, checklists, and simple calculations without heavy prerequisites in agronomy or biology.
Curriculum
1 Lesson
Lesson
Soil to Harvest: Beginner Crop Production Essentials00:00:00
$10.00
