Organic Farming Basics 2: Managing Pests & Diseases Without Chemicals
by Alexius Yeo
About the Class
- Class Level: All Levels
- Age Requirement: 16 to 100 years
- Average Class Size: 20
What You'll Learn
- Learn how to identify different pests, their behaviors and weaknesses
- Learn useful integrated pest management techniques and how to create a tried and tested organic pesticide
- Learn how to identify different bacteria, fungus and viruses that harm your plants, and their remedies
Fee Includes
- Includes a hands-on pest and disease hunt in a real backyard organic farm in Singapore
- Includes light refreshments made from fresh organic herbs and vegetables from the venue’s edible garden
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There are just too many ways our plants can get sick and die! Snails, grasshoppers, aphids, mealybugs, viruses, root-rot, leaf mold etc. Many of us share that common struggle and frustration to stay on top of plant pests and diseases.
Come and learn in depth information about the various health problems that plants can have. We will also be teaching proven home-made solutions that will equip you with an arsenal of methods to bring your sick plants back to health. Join us and get a head start to achieving your green thumbs and creating your own thriving food garden!
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Reviews of Classes by Alexius Yeo
genevieve G.
14 Aug, 2017
informative and enlightening
Carolyn O.
3 Oct, 2016
Safe and natural
Veronica Y.
26 Jan, 2016
Interesting experience
Students got to eat homemade refreshments from Alexius's mom and take home stem cuttings from plants in his garden.
Jen E.
26 Oct, 2015
Hands-on, thorough, fun!
Dominic Woo W.
25 Oct, 2015
Fruitful and Enlightening
I really really do hope to start my own little edible garden by growing organic and edible veggies and once they grow and are harvested, I will be able to cook and eat healthy. He shared the pest and virus problems in a form of a small presentation and explanation we face, have hands-on and being a hunter to identify problematic plants and start pruning the plants that are infected and also learnt two very useful home-made organic recipes for organic pesticide and fungicide. It was a delight to receive bottles of the organic pesticide and organic fungicide after the lesson ends.
Alexius is a very friendly and patient teacher, I will highly recommend this class to people who are interested in farming and gardening.
Thank you for such a wonderful two hours on an awesome Sunday morning and it became one of my GOD moments of the day. He put in great effort in preparing for this session and even get up early that morning to clean the house and so we showered him with sweet treats and everyone who came get to enjoy the sweet treats together and there were no leftovers. =)
I am really really looking forward for more workshops in the future be it the first week of every month for the Project 33 potluck events and also other fruitful and useful workshops.