Vegetables and PeppersOrganic Farming Practitioner Credential
Integrated Pest Management Without Synthetic Chemicals
with Marcus Bailey · Intermediate · Hybrid
8 weeks · Hybrid
Scotch Bonnet and Hot Pepper Production
Grow, protect and market Scotch bonnet and other hot peppers for fresh and processed markets.
Vegetables and PeppersIntermediateCaribbean
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Weekly hours
- 5 hours / week
- Format
- Hybrid
- Language
- English
- Certification
- Professional Certificate
Overview
A full-season course on hot peppers, from nursery to harvest and sale, taught on working Caribbean farms with an online companion for remote learners.
What you will learn
- Raise healthy pepper seedlings
- Prepare beds and transplant
- Manage nutrition through the season
- Control pests with IPM
- Harvest to market standards
- Grade and pack for fresh and mash markets
- Calculate cost of production
Modules
- Scotch bonnet and its cousins30 min
- Fresh, mash and sauce markets40 min
- Seed and media20 min
- ⚑Sow a seedling tray120 min
- Hardening off40 min
- Bed preparation50 min
- ⚑Transplant a row150 min
- Mulch and spacing30 min
- Feeding and water40 min
- ⚑Weekly crop check90 min
- Gall midge, mites and viruses30 min
- ⚑Scout and record120 min
- Organic controls50 min
- ⚑Harvest to grade120 min
- Packing and cold chain30 min
- Cost of production50 min
- Selling to processors20 min
Field assignment
Instructor
Sample instructor
Marcus Bailey
Hot Pepper Grower and IPM Specialist · Caribbean
Marcus runs a five-hectare pepper farm in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, and trains growers across the Caribbean in pest control without synthetic chemicals.
Scotch bonnetIntegrated pest managementNursery production
Certification
Professional Certificate
Recognises applied, job-ready skills assessed through field work and a capstone.
Requirements to earn it
- Complete all lessons
- Submit every field assignment for mentor review
- Pass a capstone project assessed by an instructor
Prerequisites
- Some growing experience
Who this is for
- Caribbean growers
- Diaspora returnees starting farms
- Agri-entrepreneurs
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Next start: 26 January 2027
Tuition information coming soon