In this Urban Agriculture Systems online course you'll learn the foundational concepts needed to establish a productive growing space, especially within the confines of an urban environment. In this course, we will work through a number of aspects of site planning and management. You'll do a quick examination of your site’s soil, practice fertility adjustment and balancing, and consider how your project fits within its social environment.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
Other courses in this series include:
You can also take all three of these courses in an instructor-led format that offers additional material and assignments with our Online Urban Agriculture Program.
Gail Langellotto is a Professor of Horticulture at Oregon State University, where she also serves as the Principle Investigator of the Garden Ecology Lab and leads the statewide Oregon State University Master Gardener program. She has a M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology, and has published research on topics as diverse as the costs of starting and maintaining a vegetable garden, pollinator-friendly gardens, and the benefits of gardening to healthy eating. Her OSU Extension Service and outreach efforts are focused on communicating research-backed management practices to home gardeners. For the online Master Gardener and urban agriculture PACE courses, she supervises overall course development, and reviews and contributes to course content.
Mykl came to the Pacific Northwest to enter the agricultural sector. He spent a handful of years at Oregon State University to retrain in a new undergraduate degree so he could finish with a Master’s of Horticulture. He is now creating and teaching courses at OSU as the Instructor of Urban Agriculture. Outside the university, Mykl gardens when he can and runs a number of nutrient cycling experiments.