Bio 1 is AfrEco’s complete grounding in biological farming — three modules that take you from how soil actually works, to how a plant reads it, to how to restore nutrition the right way round.
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Introductory offer — R7 250 once-off, or 6 × R1 208. First intake · limited places.
Biological farming
Soil · Plants · Nutrition
3 modules + capstone
Most farming today treats the symptom and never the cause. The result is a soil that needs more help every year, not less.
Chemical fertiliser is a petro-product — when the fuel price moves, your input cost moves with it. And much of what you apply never reaches the plant.
On a low-CEC soil, a large share of every application leaches straight past the roots. You pay for nutrition the soil simply cannot hold.
Spray the pest, dose the yellow leaf, poison the weed — each move ignores the cause and sets up the next imbalance you’ll have to correct.
Kill everything and the ratio of beneficial to harmful organisms collapses — so pests, disease and compaction keep coming back.
Used as food, they create the very problems they’re bought to solve. In a natural system no one adds minerals — the diversity of life supplies and maintains everything the plant needs. Agriculture removed that diversity, so we step in. The question is how.
AfrEco has worked on biological farming since 2008. Bio 1 is the foundation we teach everything else on.
Soil shows how the profile works. Plants shows how the plant reads that profile. Nutrition joins the two. Read in order, each part builds on the last.
How the soil profile actually works — and why a healthy one feeds the plant on its own.
How a plant reads its soil — and what a pest or symptom is really telling you.
How to restore nutrition — minerals, biology, compost and a programme for your land.
By the end of Bio 1 you won’t be guessing at products. You’ll understand the system well enough to diagnose it and act with intent.
Three structured modules, the assessments that prove you’ve absorbed them, and the certificates that record it.
Soil, Plants & Nutrition Fundamentals — the full Bio 1 series, read in order.
Short checks through every module so you know the ideas have landed before you move on.
A pass assessment at the end of each module to qualify for its certificate.
A final module that ties Soil, Plants and Nutrition together into one working picture.
Earn a certificate for Soil, for Plants and for Nutrition as you complete each one.
Complete all three modules and the capstone to earn your full Bio 1 certificate of completion.
The course is R14 500. For the first intake only, a limited number of places open at the introductory rate: R7 250 once-off, or 6 × R1 208.
Prefer to pay monthly (6 × R1 208)? Contact us to arrange it.
The introductory price is offered to the first intake only. Once those places are taken, enrolment moves to the standard rate of R14 500.
Bio 1 is delivered online as three digital modules — Soil, Plants and Nutrition — with chapter quizzes throughout, a final pass quiz for each module, and a capstone module that ties the three together. It’s self-paced, so you work through it in your own time.
Not at present. The course is built around the three written modules and their quizzes. The material is detailed and illustrated, designed to be read, worked through and applied on your own land.
You earn a certificate for each module as you complete it and pass its final quiz. Complete all three modules and the capstone, and you earn the full Bio 1 capstone certificate of completion.
No. Bio 1 starts with fundamentals and builds up. It’s written for working farmers, smallholders and students alike — read in order, each part prepares you for the next.
The course is R14 500. For the first intake there’s an introductory offer: R7 250 once-off, or R1 208 per month over 6 months. Places at the introductory rate are limited.
Click “Reserve your seat” to secure your place in the first intake. You’ll get access to the AfrEco learning platform to start working through the modules.
Join the first intake of Bio 1 at the introductory price while places last.
R7 250 once-off or 6 × R1 208 · limited first-intake places.