Module ANTM006 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM006: Gardening, Wellbeing and Community
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes with scope for individual students to focus on elements of their choice:
- How to record information than could affect growing food successfully, such as soil testing and using exiting vegetation as a proxy for the land’s status
- How to design a food production area
- How to build up organic matter in soil, including traditional composting, no-dig, and permaculture methods
- How to grow food using various methods, from raised beds to forest gardens
- How to obtain food, from foraging, perennial and annual food resources, to typical garden flowers
- How to plant particular crops, from annuals to perennials (including trees)
- How to care for particular crops and prune perennials (particularly trees)
- How to manage a productive area
- How to develop a harvest plan
- How to manage bee hives
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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75 | 75 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 60 | 30 x 2-hour sessions of supervised practical work in the garden |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 15 | Fieldtrips |
Guided Independent Study | 30 | Reading |
Guided Independent Study | 45 | Preparation of gardening journal and project presentation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Useful LInks:
Incredible Edible Movement http://incredibleediblenetwork.org.uk/
Grow it Yourself https://giy.ie/
The Orchard Project: www.theorchardproject.org.uk
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Atieri, Miguel (2017) Agroecology in Action website which is a very useful resource including links section (accessed 14.06.2017). Also includes a link to pdf by the Scientific Society of Agroecology Agroecology: Key concepts, Principles and Practices (accessed 14.06.2017).
Crawford, M. (2010) Creating a forest garden: working with nature to grow edible crops. Green Books, Dartington.
Diacono, M. (2015) The new kitchen garden: how to grow some of what you eat no matter where you live.
Fukuoka, M. (1992) One straw revolution, 14th edn. Other India Press, India.
Hart, R. (1993) The forest garden, 3rd edn. The Institute of Social Innovations, London.
Hart, R.A.d.J. (2001) Forest gardening: Rediscovering nature and community in a post-industrial age, 3rd edn. Green Earth Books, Dartington.
Hathaway, M. (2015) Agroecology and permaculture: addressing key ecological problems by rethinking and redesigning agricultural systems. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 6, 239-250.
Kloppenburg, J. R. (2005). First the seed: The political economy of plant biotechnology. University of Wisconsin Press.
Mollison, B. & Holmgren, D. (1978) Permaculture one: a perennial agriculture for human settlements. Trasworld Publishers.
Russell Smith, J. (1929) Tree Crops A Permanent Agriculture. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.
Wong, J. (2012) James Wong's homegrown revolution: grow your own amazing edibles from saffron to sweet potatoes in any back garden. Weidenfield and Nicolson.