ECHO hosting week-long course on food forests, garden design and planning

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. - July 11, 2024 - PRLog -- ECHO, a leading advocate for sustainable agriculture and food security, will host a week-long course focusing on food forests and garden design this fall at its North American Regional Impact Center. The course, "Tropical Agriculture Development II: Food Forests, Garden Design and Planning," will take place from Monday, Sept. 16 to Friday, Sept. 20.

By taking this course, attendees will learn how to design and start a food forest in their own backyard. They will also learn practical ways to start a garden anywhere using items such as old tires, milk cartons and swimming pools.

Participants will walk through the design process with professional designers, starting from setting goals, surveying the land, building a base map, considering earthworks and creatively designing around constraints.

Attendees will be able to see and apply these principles to a small garden or a large plot of land. This training is also beneficial for missionaries to be able to help individuals in food insecure areas around the world have a foundation to bring nutrition into their lives from their own backyard.

ECHO's North American Regional Impact Center is located at 17391 Durrance Road, North Fort Myers, FL.

Registration costs include lodging at the ECHO campus, three meals per day and the week-long course fee. Early-bird registration now through Aug. 1 is $695. Regular registration is $750 and closes on Sept. 8. Spouse registration fee is $495. To register, please visit https://bit.ly/45V10Mx.

About ECHO

ECHO provides hope against hunger around the globe through agricultural training and
resources. As a Christian technical networking and resourcing organization, ECHO builds a diverse, global network and serves that network by sharing validated contextualized agricultural options with technical excellence. ECHO's goal is to serve its network members to advance food security and sustainable livelihoods. ECHO's North American Regional Impact Center is located in Fort Myers, Florida with a global presence through four Regional Impact Centers in the USA, Thailand, Tanzania, and Burkina Faso. For more information about ECHO call 239-543-3246 or visit echonet.org or ECHOcommunity.org.