Improve your gardening skills by joining our Home Gardening Online Course


Learn how to create and maintain a productive, regenerative organic home garden.

In this masterclass, you will learn to grow a productive garden while improving your garden's topsoil health and biodiversity with every season.

Course Highlights

  • Gain immediate access to the course content.
  • 5+ hours of in-depth videos to walk you through each topic.
  • Downloadable tables and charts, readable on any electronic device.
  • Upon completing the course, you can download a Certificate of Completion.
  • 1-year access to the course.
  • Discount code for ordering gardening equipment from ActiveVista.

Learn everything you need to know to create and maintain an abundant, beautiful, organic-regenerative vegetable garden. Our gardening system is simple and is suitable for a wide range of site conditions, climates and circumstances. Learn the right strategies and techniques for your site and lifestyle, to grow vegetables of the highest nutritional value and quality, with less effort with every season.

In this online course, you will follow the chapters and content of our book, The Abundant Garden.

Each week, new video material will be released on the learning platform.

You can purchase a copy of the book with the course (free shipping) or borrow it from a friend or your local library for the course duration.

100% satisfaction guaranteed! 7 days refund policy, no questions asked. Email us within 7 days, and we will fully refund your investment.


 

Course Learning Topics

Designing your vegetable garden

Cultivating healthy soils

Starting a new garden

Plant propagation techniques and planting in the garden

Productive planting

Weeding strategies

Irrigation and watering

Vegetables

Gardening through the seasons and crop planning

Plant health and managing pests and disease

All about compost

Growing microgreens

Saving seeds

Fermenting and preserving produce

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"Yotam's passion for permaculture is palpable. It was a well thought through course jam packed with helpful tips that I have instantly incorporated into my gardening practice. 10/10 Highly recommended."

- Mike Mizrahi

"I did the home gardening course and loved every minute. Yotam is the source of so much knowledge, and every session was filled with information, ideas and tips. I found Yotam was always encouraging, no matter where we were at in our journey. To get the most out of the course, I needed to do the prereading and watch the videos, which is a commitment to the week, but well worth it. But the course was divided into manageable chunks, so I never felt overwhelmed with information. The course has given me all the info and motivation to get me going organic, and covered a very wide range of topics, Answering all our questions. Yotam has also been very generous in allowing us access to all the material for a year, and we have an ongoing platform to continue communicating with others in the course. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to understand organic gardening but not sure where to start, or how to progress with it. Thank you so much Yotam."

- Sophia Harris

"My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the permaculture course with Pakaraka Permaculture. Yotams enthusiasm is infectious and keeps things interesting. It was great to be able to see their farm operating through the seasons and at each stage of the growing cycle. We learned a lot even in the areas where we thought we were knowledgeable and now have new things to try. I would totally recommend the course and consider it great value for money."

- Hedley Wilton

Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts when you register and you will have access to the full content of the course for one year.
Who is this course for?
This online course is suitable for beginner and intermediate home gardeners alike. The course will help you build solid foundations and fill gaps in your knowledge. The course is suitable for those wanting to grow in a small area in the city or a large suburban or rural section. While we will be starting from the basics so no previous knowledge of gardening is required, we will go deep with lots of technical details so even experienced gardeners will have much to gain. We have been teaching this content in our on-farm workshops and the feedback we received was that beginner gardeners find this course empowering and providing a great base to start from. Experienced gardeners found that this material helped them fill gaps in their knowledge, and helped them improve their gardening techniques with more efficient and productivity tricks.
Does this course have live sessions?
No. This version of the course doesn't include live sessions. You can book a consultation separately.
Is this course suitable for gardeners any where in the world?
Yes. The vast majority of the content in this course is suitable for gardeners from both hemispheres, as the art of productive gardening is universal. The main strategies and techniques illustrated in this course are applicable in many parts of the world. In The Abundant Garden book, all of the figures appear in both the Metric System and the Imperial System. The figures in the appendixes and tables are currently only in the Metric System.
I don't have a vegetable garden yet, will I still benefit from the course?
If you don't have a garden at the time of the course, the course will provide you with solid foundations to establish and maintain a home garden in the future.
What size garden do I need to take part in this course?
Having access to a garden plot of any size (a planter box is totally fine) will help you practise the techniques we share in the course. We recommend that your garden is easily accessible to you and that it gets full-sun exposure (8 hours of direct sunlight).
How is this course compared to a horticultural course?
This is not your average horticultural course, and the focus is not on theoretical aspects of plant biology. Instead, this course is focused on proven strategies, practical skills and task-specific information. The course is specifically catering for home gardeners, based on our extensive gardening experience.
What is your refund policy?
If you are unsatisfied with your investment, contact us in the first 7 days, and we will give you a full refund.
I have a question, how do I contact you?
We are always happy to answer questions. Please email us at [email protected]

Watch the Garden of Eden episode on our farm, as featured on the iconic Country Calendar program, episode 29, from the 2019 season on TVNZ.

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Your Instructor


Yotam Kay
Yotam Kay

Yotam Kay is a master gardener and experienced fermenter who loves sharing his passion. He has been growing vegetables and teaching others how to do it since 2005. Yotam dedicated his career to learning about growing vegetables organically in a regenerative way, with the burning question, "how much food can be grown in a small piece of land efficiently and regeneratively?". Niva and Yotam established Pākaraka Permaculture Market Garden and Educational Centre for Regenerative Living" in Thames, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2014.

Yotam studied Environmental Science, holds a Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Practice and a Diploma in Permaculture Design, and is a certified Permaculture teacher. Yotam worked on a wide range of projects before establishing Pakaraka Permaculture; leading community garden projects, establishing food gardens and sustainability programs in schools, and managing commercial organic gardens in New Zealand.

Yotam is passionate about transitioning to sustainable food production, focusing both on backyards and commercial growers. Yotam has taught thousands of people through on-farm workshops and online courses.

Yotam and his partner Niva co-authored the #1 Bestseller book The Abundant Garden (2021) and The Abundant Kitchen (2023). Niva and Yotam were awarded the peer-reviewed 'Farmer of the Year' at the 2021 Organic NZ Awards, and Yotam is a regular contributor to NZ Gardener Magazine.


 

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