YEAR COURSE:
GROW YOUR OWN EDIBLE URBAN GARDEN
URBAN GARDENING AND PERMACULTURE ONLINE COURSE
march-OCTOBER 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION
This online course with nine live group sessions covers the basic principles of urban permaculture and sustainable organic farming.
It is designed to offer you the basic techniques and concepts so that you can plan and start your own garden, whether on a balcony, roof terrace, garden, patio, or even indoors on windowsills!
If weather permits the instruction will be outside in the garden.
You will learn about: aromatic herbs, vegetables, edible flowers; how to work with a crop plan for the four seasons; how to plant seeds and seedlings; different composting systems and general health of the land; seed collection and food preservation; and how to create balance and biodiversity in the garden.
This course is designed for northern hemisphere temperate zones, but depending on the location of the participants, more specific details can be provided for each case.
Summary of sessions:
1. Planning your edible urban garden
2. Review & Discuss Session: Garden designs
3. Seeds, seedlings and plants
4. Creating healthy soil and composting methods
5. Creating balance in the garden
6. Harvest, crop care & garden maintenance
___ summer break __________________________________________
7. The autumn and winter garden
8. Seed collection and food preservation
9. Review & Discuss session + herbal ointments and winter tonics
FEE:
€ 450 FULL year COURSE: 9 sessions ( march to OCTOBER )
THE FULL YEAR COURSE INCLUDES:
22 hours of group class live via Google Meet (9 sessions)
Educational material (lists, manuals and web links) with all the necessary information for getting started with your garden
Your instructor will be available to you for follow-up questions during the course and we have a whatsapp group for all online students
Access to the online community of former students to share your gardening experiences
DATES:
Session 1: Saturday March 8 from 10 to 12:30
Session 2: Saturday April 12 from 10 to 12:30
Session 3: Saturday May 3 from 10 to 12:30
Session 4: Saturday June 7 from 10 to 12:30
Session 5: Saturday June 28 from 10 to 12:30
___ summer break ____
Session 6: Saturday August 30 from 10 to 12:30
Session 7: Saturday September 13 from 10 to 12:30
Session 8: Saturday September 27 from 10 to 12:30
Session 9: Saturday October 18 from 10 to 12:30
Teacher: Suzanne Oommen
Number of students: maximum 12
Language: English
YOUR CITYPLOT INSTRUCTOR:
Suzanne oommen
Born in India, Suzanne grew up surrounded by the intensive cultivation practiced in Kerala kitchen gardens and soaked up the interdependencies inherent in holistic, organic agriculture.
She studied art and design in Bombay, and worked in publishing in Dubai and marketing in Toronto. In Toronto she rediscovered her calling by growing vegetables in the backyard, learning about composting, and working in the farmer’s markets.
In Amsterdam, with her plentiful hands-on urban food growing experience, becoming part of Cityplot came about very naturally.
She has trained with Patrick Whitefield in permaculture and now experiments with self sufficiency in her allotment garden.
Suzanne is actively involved in local community gardens, breeds red wriggler worms, and provides garden consultations and a variety of workshops.
