TerraPro’s vocational programme shifts the focus from traditional, qualification-heavy schooling to a practical "learn-by-doing" methodology. By building a practical understanding of plant production, we empower participants to immediately address food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty.
Our inclusive approach combines therapeutic best practice with commercial horticulture, enabling men, women, and children to improve their quality of life and integrate into their communities. We begin by grounding learners in the fundamentals of plant biology, then build the technical skills needed to launch and manage a successful home-based enterprise.
To ensure long-term success, TerraPro provides:
Active Mentorship: Hands-on implementation support during training.
Ongoing Monitoring: We track progress to ensure households remain food-secure while working toward a marketable surplus.
Market Integration: We help bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and local buyers to facilitate economic growth.
The Innovation: We conduct training in a supportive environment tailored to the needs of immigrants and the underemployed. By blending technical agricultural skills with modern business management, we help our learners thrive in today’s economic landscape.
We offer 2 types of training.
The first aims to inform the community on how best to use the resources available to address household food security, employment, and income. This programme is tailored to be provided in two-hour sessions or four-hour sessions over 4 days. Both are intensive learning experiences, tailored to learners' capabilities.
The second training programme combines horticulture knowledge with sales and marketing expertise, allowing the learner to advise the community on ‘best options’. This programme is meant for retired/unemployed professionals who want to enter the agriculture sector, or for organisations that want to include it in their ‘continuing professional development’ programme.
Training
What’s included
The Foundation Course
TerraPro's training design is flexible, enabling more learners to participate and lead healthy, productive, satisfying lives.
Our training programmes provide short bursts of training in horticulture that enable the learner to gain the skills, confidence and expertise required to manage backyard crop production in the urban environment to first ensure their households are food secure, then as a business selling surplus or gain employment with local businesses.
Our training programmes combine wellbeing best practice as the foundation for imparting horticultural skills. Learners receive technical and motivational support during the training period.
The training is fully interactive and emphasises the importance of sensitivity in fostering confidence, allowing learners to actively contribute and thrive in their learning environment.
End-of-Training Support
This programme is mentored by a subject matter specialist who supports the entrepreneur in starting their project during training.
The entrepreneur can also receive online support during production to maintain process integrity and meet production targets, quality standards, and marketing goals.