Gardening: grow your own

Get started with easy, productive, organic, climate change savvy grow your own produce

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Get started with easy, productive, organic, climate change savvy grow your own produce

In-person course

Ceredigion - Next course on 26th February 2021

£95

Growing some of your own produce is one of the most empowering experiences going, especially now as Covid-19 has turned our focus to the truly essential elements of life; food and health. I'm running courses again with smaller groups outside in my large training gardens. I have extra cleaning measures in place and all attendees will be contacted to confirm they have no coronavirus symptoms pre event. This course is ideal for those new to grow your own as well as those with experience looking to learn how to nurture...

Polytunnel grow your own: productive, organic, year round food growing

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Polytunnel grow your own: productive, organic, year round food growing

In-person course

Ceredigion - Next course on 19th February 2021

£95

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. This course is ideal for anyone with a polytunnel that wants to learn how to use it most effectively all year round (including to have lots of luscious fresh produce over winter) With lots of time and money saving tricks, plus an emphasis on working with nature and building resilience, Kim will show you how to nurture delicious home grown fruit and vegetables around our...

Online garden club

Live online tuition

- Next course on 14th January 2021

£10

Would you like to learn more about how to look after your garden? What to plant, when to prune, how to sow seed? Get yourself a cup of tea or a glass of wine and join up to five other students for a monthly virtual garden club with tutor Esther Wolff! Advice will be tailored to students' own gardens and you will get plenty of opportunity to ask questions and get advice on whatever's stumping you! I will email you a questionnaire before we start to find out about you...

Gold AWARD

Living Willow Harlequin trees

In-person course

Surrey - Next course on 6th March 2021

£45

We are a family of three teaching a variety of willow weaving courses in the beautiful Surrey Hills near Dorking. Based at a few different venues we can create different courses to work with your needs in these difficult times. This project is a beautiful living willow harlequin tree. Once settled in and the journey to get here forgotten, we begin the day learning about willow; how and where it is grown, the preparation needed for the project and all the techniques required for you to make your own beautiful...

Grow your own cut flowers

Online course

£40

Grow Your Own Flowers Workshop Please note that due to the Corona virus outbreak, this workshop is now only available online until further notice (at a new price of £40 compared to the original £80). The course notes include everything that would have been taught in person, along with comprehensive lists of plants that you can grow for cutting. Course outline: If you'd like to create a cutting garden from which to harvest your own flowers but are unsure where to start, this is the workshop for you. Covering everything...

Bronze AWARD

Cut flower garden hand tied bouquet.

In-person course

Dorset - Next course on 1st April 2021

£125

Immerse yourself in the walled garden to gather herbs and cut flowers as you enjoy a guided tour around our newly extended cut flower beds and the established potager. We will share tips from our experiencing of growing flowers for the guest rooms as well as selling to local farm shops.

Silver AWARD

The climate change garden (book)

Craft kit or book

£13

Sally Morgan and Guardian journalist, Kim Stoddart's new gardening book, The Climate Change Garden takes a fresh look at our gardens, allotments and growing spaces. It’s no longer gardening as usual. Already, we are already seeing changes to our climate – the earliest spring, the mildest winter, the wettest year, while new pests and diseases are reported each summer. Kim and Sally look at the potential problems ahead and give down-to-earth advice on how you can work towards a climate change resilient garden. A lot of which is about letting...

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