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July 18, 2014

A Quick Overview of the Go Food Gardening System

In the previous unit you learned about the importance of having a proven food gardening system. If you missed it – please go back to the unit and study it again before you proceed with this unit.

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What Makes the Go Food Gardening System Different?

food gardening activity cycles
These nine interrelated gardening activity cycles all contribute to the success and sustainability of your food garden.

#1: It’s A Whole Interrelated Food Gardening System
Having green fingers does not make one a successful food gardener. What makes one a successful food gardener is using a proven system and executing all the activities in that system consistently well.

The Go Food Gardening System features a sustainable collage of nine interrelated gardening activity cycles which all contribute to the success and sustainability of your food garden.

#2: It’s A Scale-able System
We don’t believe in one-shoe-fits-all food gardening systems. The Go Food Gardening System allows you to start with what you have (and know) and then to systematically grow and build your skill levels; and the size of your food garden.

Putting it another way – it shows you which are the essential activities that you need to start with and which ones you can add along the way. It also encourages you to start with the easiest and most valuable crops and to add the more difficult ones as your skills and experience grow.

#3: Pragmatic Approach
You’ll find hands-on step-by-step explanations wherever applicable and you’ll also find a sound horticultural underpinning for each activity. This enables you to immediately include the activity in your gardening or to adapt it to suit your own garden and personality.

Putting it another way – you’ll gain a realistic rather than a romantic understanding of what it means to live with and from nature.

#4: Good Return on Investment
I’m are sure you’ve heard stories about people who’ve started a food garden and ended up paying hundreds of dollars for one diseased lettuce and a few sad-looking carrots. Believe me, most of those stories are real. You’ll be happy to hear that I don’t believe that your food garden should oil the wheels of commerce, and therefore I show you how to set up and manage your garden for a fraction of the cost of supermarket produce.

Download a detailed PDF flowchart of The Go Food Gardening System
Use this flowchart to plan your own food gardening activities.

5 Key Benefits of The Go Food Gardening System

The results of using the Go Food Gardening System are phenomenal. No two gardens or gardeners are alike but compared to conventional horticulture and gardening practices you can expect the following:

1. From enrollment to harvest in 6 weeks. Simply follow the study program and you’ll have your first pesticide-free crops on the table in 6 weeks. Or even less.

2. Overcome the feast or famine syndrome. With our proven blueprint to overcome the feast or famine syndrome, you’ll consistently put food on the table, year-in and year-out.

3. Turn your kitchen garbage into black gold. Turn that idle compost heap into a vibrant tool to create new growing space… solve garden problems… host beneficial insects… and invigorate soil all year! In fact, you’ll build your soil 60 times faster and increase your soil fertility by up to 100% resulting in healthy, nutritious crops.

4. Beat pests and diseases at their own game – the Earth-Friendly way. With our proven ‘Pest Patrol Checklist’ (see Module 7) you’ll soon have pests looking for ‘greener pastures’ elsewhere.

5. It’s a huge cost-saving and it’s the ‘green thing’ to do. Reduce your garden water consumption by up to 70%. And reduce fertilizer purchased by up to 50% – this can be as high as 100%.

Small Scale Community Gardeners and Market Gardeners can also expect to:

  • Reduce fossil fuel consumption by up to 95%. This can be as high as 100%.
  • Increase caloric production per unit area by 200% – 400%.
  • Increase income by up to 100%.

 Take Action

1. Take a few minutes to reflect on the features and benefits stated above. Which appeals to you the most?

2. What else would you like from your “gardening system”?

3. Share your thoughts in a Reply below.

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  1. Bridgette Du Preez says

    January 29, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    1. Recently started my own veggie garden and have had a few irritating pests which I have been struggling with, so “Beat Pests at their own Game” appeals to me.
    2. Would love to learn how to use kitchen scraps to make my own compost heap.

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  2. Pippa Langley says

    January 26, 2023 at 9:12 am

    Having my own fresh fruit and veg and exploring new options.

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  3. Jessica Keefer says

    January 19, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    1. All about gardening appeals to me.

    Just an abundance of food is what I want from my garden.

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  4. Heather Thompson says

    January 17, 2023 at 12:37 am

    My husband and I grow a garden every year. We would like to someday build a greenhouse to have greens all year round from our own growth.

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  5. Patricia Du Plooy says

    January 9, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    I want to grow vegetables and herbs as Nature intended. Food that’s highly nutritional and medicinal.

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  6. Larissa Llave says

    December 26, 2022 at 8:57 am

    I like to know that my food is safe to eat

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  7. Mar-Zanne Roos says

    December 16, 2022 at 2:49 pm

    Busy starting a veggie garden. Have lots to learn.

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  8. irene naberman says

    October 20, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    I have never been without a vegetable and herb garden, I’ve never used any insecticides etc. I would love to make my own compost heap and start a worm farm.

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  9. Carmen Booyse says

    July 24, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    Always wanted to start my own veggie garden. This gives me a lot of hope and confidence to start

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  10. Colin Jardine says

    February 20, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    I have a garden going, so this is good stuff as it will help me to builds a more efficacious system. I am looking forward on getting tips on ant control. I have already seen a herb concoction to deal with this. Anyway I want to produce top quality super veges. I have already harvested a huge white flat pumpkin.

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  11. Roy Brewer says

    December 24, 2021 at 12:05 am

    I’ve helped my wife with a small garden until she stopped gardening a couple years ago. I’m away from home too much to do gardening myself right now.

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  12. Anjanette Segura says

    November 28, 2021 at 2:23 pm

    Just having some guidance would be great. I’ve planted a garden the last 2 years and my herbs usually do pretty good but I can’t get my vegetables to produce!

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  13. Lynette Barkhuizen says

    November 13, 2021 at 5:22 pm

    Every step will teach me and the kids that our actions are important. Growing our own food will surely teach us some valuable life lessons. I hope to create a peaceful working ethos where the activities are mind relaxing even if in the end our muscles are a bit sore.

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  14. Vici Kiehm says

    October 12, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    I am a qualified landscaper and garden & horticulturist. Although there are some things you don’t learn in studies, its is trial and error like how to get the best germination ratio and what is the best additive to soil for nutrition and moisture retention and how to strengthen your plants. I also have green fingers.

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  15. Nancy Hillary says

    September 26, 2021 at 5:51 am

    I love being a part of my garden cycle, the planning, the animals, even the pests. I am always adding and changing and learning. Gardening is a non stop cycle of learning, exercise, meditation and tanning alongside fruit and veg. Every home needs a decent garden, every school should teach food gardening.

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  16. Lynette Barkhuizen says

    September 18, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    I’ve never grown something with success in my life. I really NEED to do this course. For our kitchen but also to grow herbs to use for making my own herbal medicine.

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  17. Margie Osterbauer says

    September 13, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    I love the step-by-step idea. In cooking or sewing, I read instructions and follow one step at a time and am usually successful in my endeavor. In gardening, I have just put seeds or plants into the ground and hoped for the best. With trees and ornamentals, I have done quite well. Growing food has not been as productive. I plan to complete this course before spring planting time.

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  18. Joachim Kasselman says

    September 7, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    I like the idea of upgrading the compost

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  19. Odette Ninow-Cullen says

    September 6, 2021 at 11:19 am

    I have 80sqm of garden to play with in the back yard and 90sqm in the front yard. All I want is my own veggie and herb garden 🙂

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  20. Jessica Austin says

    August 27, 2021 at 5:30 am

    I would love to grow my garden system to really supply my family year round

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  21. Sithembile Makhombothi says

    August 16, 2021 at 12:19 pm

    I’m excited and looking forward to enrich my garden. I will start with using the kitchen garbage to my advantage.

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  22. Kathy Dlugolonski says

    August 14, 2021 at 6:18 am

    Cost saving! And producing food all year round. Those are very appealing and currently unmastered.

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  23. Tiffany Hirschler says

    July 26, 2021 at 4:25 pm

    Turning garbage into black gold. I really want to learn to compost.

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  24. Rachel Letze says

    July 24, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    I’m very excited to learn all of this but I wonder if this (especially the compost part) can be done on a micro level because I have a 6 foot by 6 foot patio and that’s it.

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  25. Elsa du Preez says

    July 4, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    Beat pests and diseases at their own game – the Earth-Friendly way.
    I loose a lot every year to pest.

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  26. Megan Martin says

    June 25, 2021 at 4:57 am

    I love gardening. And I try something new every year. But my “skills” as a gardener are sadly lacking. I rarely get much–if any–yield from my “crops”. So I could stand to learn much about a sustainable system of gardening.

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  27. Alice Nabbumba says

    June 16, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    Am yet to to get more serious with gardening

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  28. Charlette Barr says

    June 10, 2021 at 4:39 pm

    I love gardening, digging in the dirt, planting the seeds, watching it grow, tending to it. putting fresh vegetables and herbs on the table for the family is the best feeling. It is hard work, but I definitely like the way you have laid out the steps.

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Food Gardening Masterclass
Module 1 Going Beyond Organic-
Unit 1 Introduction  - Preview
Unit 2 Help! My Plant is Sick!  - Preview
Unit 3 Liebig's Barrel - With a Modern Twist  - Preview
Unit 4 A Quick Overview of the Go Food Gardening System  - Preview
Unit 5 Food Gardening Activities and Skills Self-Assessment
Unit 6 What is Your Role as Gardener?  - Preview
Unit 7 Problems with Conventional Gardening and Agriculture  - Preview
Unit 8 The Power of Having Three Proven Gardening Systems in One  - Preview
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