Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome & Overview

    • Overview
  • 2

    Organic Pest Control

    • Fact sheets
  • 3

    Composting Fact Sheet

    • How to turn and harvest your compost

    • Composting Fact Sheet

    • Compost Materials

    • Compost Bin Signage - materials

    • Compost Bin Signage - STOP!! Bin is full
  • 4

    Worm Farming Basics

    • Set up a worm farm & how to harvest the castings

  • 5

    Join The Veggie Club

    • Monthly Gardening Guides

About your trainer


 Known as The Veggie Lady (www.theveggielady.com), Toni Salter has a passion to see organic gardening principles adopted by everyone, encouraging people to grow organic produce everywhere, whether it’s in their backyard, hospital rehabilitation, aged care facility or day centre for people with disabilities or mental health conditions. 

Toni is a qualified Horticulturist and Recreation Activity Officer and has been teaching popular community education classes on organic gardening through local councils for the last 20 years. She runs therapeutic gardening programs, developing sensory gardens through community health services and provided training on social and therapeutic gardening for staff, carers and volunteers. Toni is also a regular guest on local ABC Radio Sydney gardening show with Simon Marnie.