Herbs Courses

A course for any cook whether professional, amateur or for the family

Learn how to identify and successfully grow dozens of common and uncommon edible herbs and start preparing much more interesting meals.

Develop your skills and experience the delights of cooking adventurous new recipes with herbs. Learn drying and other methods of preserving the flavour (eg. herb oils, salts, vinegars).

Eight lessons as follows cover common and less common herbs used for cooking.

There is more to Lavender than meets the eye and here we begin with the basis of all good Horticulture; soils and plant nutrition, plant genus and species. We look at lavender growing habits, propagation, pest and diseases and the myriad of uses this fantastic plant has.

This course has Ten lessons for the lavender enthusiast, or anyone interested in starting commercial lavender production

Turn Your Passion for Herbs into a Career or Business

A course for people working or intending to work in the herb industry

This course develops a solid grounding in herb growing and the herb industry. Half of the course deals with general herb culture, including identification, soils, mulching, feeding, watering, propagation, pest & disease control, harvest, storage, processing, companion planting, nursery management and herb farming. The remainder of the course involves detailed studies of major groups of herbs such as: mints, thymes, lavenders, scented geraniums, garlic, roses, artemisias and parsley.

Comments from Students in Herb Culture

 
Thanks ACS, studying with you has been truly rewarding, because of your understanding, helpfulness and devotion to all students. I will certainly use the chance to study again with you! (Lerni)

(The course) has helped me achieve a 'greener' thumb. I now have lots more success with my garden. Beforehand, my thumb was the furthest from 'green' you could get! (Janice)

For the amateur gardener -broaden your knowledge and discover new ways of growing and using herbs at home. You will also learn about the foundation of all Horticulture knowledge; soils, plant genus & species, composting and plant culture.

A broad based six lesson course for beginners to herb growing, covering the history of herb use, herb culture, and identification of the major herbs. This course involves about 100 hours of study with an emphasis on growing and using herbs as a hobby. Thirty different herbs are studied in detail and a systematic method of identifying herbs is emphasised.

Learn the basics of how to identify and correctly administer herbs for medicinal purposes

Medicinal herbs have been used by man for thousands of years. Even today, many societies around the world still make great use of medicinal herbs from knowledge which has been passed down from generation to generation. All plants regarded as medicinal herbs contain phytochemicals which have an effect of the body.

This course is a useful first step towards understanding the nature and scope of medicinal applications for herbs. It is intended as a foundation course for people who grow medicinal herbs, or perhaps work with medicinal herbs in some other capacity (as an amateur or professional), but as a single module, it should be recognised this is only a first step towards understanding medicinal herbs.

If you have always wanted to bathe your garden in the gentle fragrance of scented plants, then this is a good place to start! There is more that you can do to create fragrance in your life!  ... or ...

If you have thought about starting your own business with the use of fragrant plants, you will learn a lot from this course. The course covers everything from soil types, pests and diseases and greenhouse growing to marketing and plant health.

It's all covered, so now there is no excuse to not indulge your passion!