Garden design and maintenance courses

Silver AWARD

Grow your own one hour live sessions with Kim Stoddart

Live online tuition

£15

Savvy organic fruit and veg growing for person, plate and planet! Drop in hour long live sessions on Tuesdays 12-1 and Thursdays 5-6 pm. Please just give me 3 days noticed as i like to keep the groups small. I will make the whole process of growing your own food easy and productive in these weekly, one hour live online coaching sessions. Growing some of your own produce is one of the most empowering experiences going, especially now as lockdown restricts us and food security concerns abound. These sessions are...

Gold AWARD

Decking tutorial

In-person course

Surrey

£40

Learn how to lay decking. David is open to questions.

Forest gardening at Margam Discovery Centre

In-person course

Port Talbot

£289

The course will assist participants to visualize, plan, establish and continue to maintain, harvest and learn from a forest garden, be it at home or on someone else’s land such as a community garden, school garden, etc. You will be able to go home and start your journey into forest gardening and be better informed to manage a forest garden that you have already started. And you’ll know how to continue your journey through research into existing literature and being part of an ever-growing network of forest gardeners in the...

Setting up as a sustainable smallholder, farmer or grower

In-person course

Ceredigion - Next course on 15th July 2020

£60

Dreaming of running your own farm or smallholding, but want to know more about what it takes, how to skill-up, how you might finance your venture and what farm diversification can offer? This day-long course will offer some frank talk and sound advice on setting up and running a small-scale sustainable smallholding and what it takes to be a smallholder, farmer or grower. Run by Alicia Miller and Nathan Richards, who have created a successful farm business growing organic fruit and vegetables for a local market and offering organic farm...

Sieves & riddles course at The Old Kennels

In-person course

Devon

£145

Make an 8″ potting sieve and a 18″ garden riddle with England’s only traditional sieve and riddle maker, Steve Overthrow, some of the most ancient tools dating back thousands of years, just as useful today as ever before. You will steam bend the riddle rims around a form and learn age old methods, tacking together riddle rims, drilling, weaving and tensioning the individual wires. In addition you will make a small potting sieve learning how to cut and fit a pre-woven mesh. You will take home some robust and useful...