Hydroponic School

Learn commercial growing from working farmers.

Three courses, written from our own farms and installations in South Africa. How to grow hydroponically, whether it will pay, and how to farm mushrooms commercially.

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 mushroom course stands on its own.

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
Open course
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

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

Coming soon

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
  • Coming soon — not available for purchase yet
Preview course
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