Hydroponic School

Learn commercial growing from working farmers.

Learn hydroponic growing, tomato production and farm business planning, with practical courses for South African growers.

Future Farms CertifiedCertificate on completion

The courses

Work through them in any order — most hydroponic growers start with the growing course and then run the numbers. The tomato course takes you from cultivar choice to harvest.

01

Hydroponics: A Broad Overview

How to grow hydroponically: systems, crops, nutrients, pests, disease, lighting and greenhouses.

  • 31 lessons across 12 sections
  • 25 quiz questions
  • Lifetime access for R500 — or both hydroponics courses for R1 000
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02

Future Farms: Step by step guide to make money from hydroponics

Whether a hydroponic farm will make money: market analysis, costing, a worked financial model and payback.

  • 51 lessons across 11 sections
  • 8 reference tables and costings
  • Lifetime access for R700 — or both hydroponics courses for R1 000
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03

Commercial Mushroom Farming: From Spore to Sale

Coming soon

A practical, technical course for small commercial mushroom growers in South Africa: species choice, the lab, spawn, substrates, fruiting rooms, biosecurity, harvest and the business.

  • 81 lessons across 12 sections
  • 60 quiz questions
  • Coming soon — not available for purchase yet
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04

Growing Hydroponic Tomatoes: A South African Grower's Course

A practical course on growing tomatoes hydroponically in South Africa: choosing cultivars and systems, managing heat, water and nutrients, irrigation, trellising, pests and harvest. Ground-based gullies on coir provide the worked example throughout.

  • 88 lessons across 12 sections
  • 60 quiz questions
  • Lifetime access for R500
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05

Grow Your Own: The South African Home Grower's Course

An evidence-led course for adults growing a small amount of cannabis at home for personal use in South Africa: the law first, then genetics, environment, nutrition, training, pests, harvest, drying and curing.

  • 85 lessons across 12 sections
  • 60 quiz questions
  • Lifetime access for R650
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