WHAT IS COVERED IN THE COURSE |
Urban gardening: How to start and maintain a small-scale garden, even in limited spaces like balconies or yards; planning a garden; how to choose the right plants for your space; companion planting and crop families; starting plants from seeds: Everything that you need to know to start and maintain your own garden! |
Climate-friendly cooking: Plant-based cooking with seasonal, locally sourced ingredients; reducing food waste; exploring various food preservation techniques such as fermentation; delving into the world of beans and vegetables; and discovering the joy of cooking and eating together! |
Sustainable food production: Understanding the impact of food production on the climate, and ways to reduce it; how to garden using climate-friendly methods. |
Sustainable lifestyle: Tips and tricks for reducing consumption of resources like energy and water, as well as minimizing waste production. |
Composting: Learn how to compost at home or in your backyard and explore different composting methods suitable for an urban environment, such as Bokashi composting, hot composting, and worm composting. |
Basic upcycling skills: Learn how to create simple DIY building projects using shared tools. |
Building a learning community: Share skills, resources, and experiences to support fellow course participants and the De Kaskantine community in making positive changes. Learn how to apply all the above skills at a community level in the future, if you desire. |
De Kaskantine is an experiment in going off-grid, relying on solar energy and rainwater. Participants will learn about alternative resource management methods from upcycling building materials and collecting rainwater to producing solar energy.
While the course focuses on what participants can do on the household level (their very own urban homestead), de Kaskantine serves as an example of a modern homestead and gives you an idea of how sustainability and self-sufficiency can be on a community level. As you'll see throughout the year, we are as a result highly dependent on nature. For instance, we need solar energy to generate electricity, and we need to collect rainwater for most of our water supply. |
The founders of De Kaskantine, Menno and Betty, will lead this course. With the help of volunteers, they have moved and rebuilt the project three times including the restaurant and transformed a former football field into a thriving garden, all the while with the aim to build knowledge and expand community-based projects.
While they believe that we need a system change, they understand that empowering individuals and communities with knowledge and skills is crucial in combating climate change. Their passion for climate-based solutions and learning is at the heart of their desire to create a hands-on, practical course for city dwellers to take tangible actions, both personally and in their community. |
To ensure this course is the right fit, all potential participants are invited to an Introduction Day on 15.02.2025. This event allows you to meet us, tour the venue, and learn what to expect from the course experience—as well as meet your potential fellow participants.
With only 10 spots available, priority will be given to the first 10 people who sign up for and attend the Introduction Day. If more than 10 people sign up, we'll place additional registrants on a waitlist and notify them if spots open up. The course requires a minimum of 8 participants to proceed. Attendance at the Introduction Day is mandatory to join the course. After attending, you'll have one week to confirm your spot by making the payment. If we don't receive payment within the week, we'll offer your place to the next person on the waitlist. Thank you for your interest! We're excited to meet you and help you decide if this is the right course for you! |
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