Resilient, get climate change smart, organic grow your own
Description
I’ve been asked a lot over previous months about online teaching materials and I have now devised a package I feel offers the right mix of advice, materials and interactivity. I didn’t want to offer something that was just tutorials and flat as I feel connectivity is more important than ever in our disconnected world. Here’s what I’ve come up with. Hope you like it.
Kim
Our weather is changing. Learn how to work with the natural world for greater resilience and a wildlife-friendly, productive and truly alive veg patch.
This includes access to an hour’s worth of short videos, covering resilient growing basics to help shore up your lower-maintenance, veg patch defences against greater extremes of weather.
Plus a series of getting growing fact sheets and articles which offer oodles of easy, climate change savvy, resilient and time and money saving tricks and tips for productivity and protection year round.
It also includes an hour’s one-to-one zoom chat with me so I can answer your questions personally.
Additionally, the package offers a monthly video update filmed explaining what I’m doing each month, with further ideas and inspiration thrown in for good measure.
More about my approach to growing
This course is ideal for every level of gardener looking to learn to build greater resilience on their veg patch around our changing climate, with little to no fuss at all.
About me
Kim is a popular Guardian gardening journalist and The Organic Way editor and has been running workshops and courses since 2014 from her training gardens as well as around the UK for everyone from Kirsty Allsopp's handmade festival to the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. Kim is also the author of The Climate Change Garden Book.
Get in touch for more details and to book your place.
What's included in the price?
Access to an hour’s worth of short videos, covering resilient growing basics to help shore up your lower-maintenance, veg patch defences against greater extremes of weather.
A series of getting growing fact sheets and articles which offer oodles of easy, climate change savvy, resilient and time and money saving tricks and tips for productivity and protection year round.
An hour’s one-to-one zoom chat with me so I can answer your questions personally. OR, a personal video made just for you around 10 questions emailed to me.
A monthly video update filmed explaining what I’m doing each month, with further ideas and inspiration thrown in for good measure.
What you will need
Just your good self
Maker
Kim Stoddart at Green Rocket CoursesThis course is taught online
Suitable for
- Adults
- Advanced/pro level
- Corporate days out & team building
- Engagement, birthdays & anniversaries
- Hen dos
- Intermediate level
- Learning difficulties (SEN)
- School holiday workshops & activities
- Seniors
- Stag dos
- Suitable for beginners
- Teenagers
- UK Holiday
- Wheelchair users
Duration
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Reviews
An amazing course fully packed of knowledge and that has helped us to break with the most common stigmas of planting and gardening by using common sense and observation.
Learnt a lot about "no dig" and "mixed planting". Techniques we're definitely using from now on!
We fully recommend it!
Response from Green Rocket Courses:
Thank you Elsa. It was lovely to meet you both. So glad you enjoyed. Happy climate change savvy GYO. KimCame on the Grow Your Own course in June and really enjoyed it. Have been growing veg for many years but was interested in Kim's ideas about growing different plants together. It made me think about how I do things and will certainly experiment more. The course was really well organised and Kim made sure that she covered lots of things to suit all in the group. Highly recommended.
What a great day, learnt so much and came away with a goody box of veg plants to grow on myself. Inspired to use what I have learnt now in our newly sited Polytunnel.
Thanks again for a fabulous day & you even arranged the weather!
Response from Green Rocket Courses:
Thank you Denise.That's great to hear. It was a real pleasure to meet you. KimReally enjoyed this course. Kim was great and full of knowledge and inspiration. The course ran at our pace so nothing was rushed and every question we had was answered in depth. The practical side was fun which made this even better. Kim offered loads of advice regarding setting up green houses and poly tunnels which was very useful.
Thanks again Kim.
Excited to squeeze onto one of Kim’s last courses before lockdown, and so glad I did! Great to get Kim’s fresh ideas on year-round productive cropping in polytunnels. My favourites; chard & purple sprouting broccoli still cropping after 4 years! So much to learn whether you’re just starting out or have been growing for a while. A great course for curious minds. If you get a chance, go for it! Thank you Kim!
Kim makes her sessions so interesting and informative. She helped to install a sense of confidence in me as I've been slightly daunted by my garden. Lots of great tips & solid advice. Can't recommend her courses enough!!
Kim is definitely one of the new breed of gardeners so needed at the moment. I came away feeling totally inspired and motivated by her knowledge and positive attitude. Having done a course with Kim before I found myself referring to her book and as a result found my confidence in the garden growing ( excuse the pun )
Nothing like having this expert advice online though.
This was my first online course. I found it engaging and insightful and will definitely be signing up to future courses with Kim. I definitely recommend giving it a go
I went to this course with my mum last year and we had an absolutely fantastic day. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Kim treated us to a lovely lunch and refreshments throughout the day and I came away from the course with practical skills and knowledge that I could use at home. Everything Kim showed us could be used in any size garden regardless of your knowledge/skill.
Excellent course and well organised. The course caters for all levels and I personally took away a few ideas especially about "no dig" gardening. Kim was very informative and very knowledgeable. Highly recommended.