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November 2018
Let’s Make a Kitchen Garden in 10 Easy Steps
The kitchen garden or potager has been a staple of working peoples’ gardens for centuries. The kitchen garden uses plants grown from seed and intensive growing techniques to produce salads, greens, vegetables, fruits, seeds, edible flowers and flowers for cutting. We’ll be following the #no-dig method pioneered by Charles Dowding. You can make a kitchen garden in a couple of window boxes, a balcony or patch outside your back door or your whole garden or allotment. We’re going to be…
Find out more »Dye Plants Workshop
This Sunday, our resident expert Diane Sullock is running a practical workshop on working with dye plants. There will be a dye demonstration and some gardening for example taking cuttings from growing dye plants such as Dyers Chamomile. If you are interested in helping to plan, grow and develop our dye plants at the greenhouses please do come along on Sunday 18th. Thursdays afternoons are Diane's regular volunteer day, so this is also a good time to join Diane on…
Find out more »Renovate! We Need Your Help
Our greenhouses were built in 1981. They're not worn out but they are beginning to need a bit more than annual cleaning. We're going to start this year by renovating the lower greenhouse. We need your help. We're going to be stripping out the greenhouse removing all the beds, piping and weeds. Then after the glaziers have replaced all the polycarbonate with glass and the electricians have installed lighting and sockets we are going to be replacing all the various…
Find out more »Ferment Your Christmas!
Join us at the Greenhouses for a relaxed and communal Sunday workshop on fermentation where we will learn how to make seasonal ferments for your Christmas table - Kimchi, Sauerkraut and Kefir. We will talk about the importance and benefits of lacto-fermentation while chopping, grating and squeezing. Everyone will have a chance to taste different home-made ferments and discuss how we can include them in our daily diet beyond the holiday season. No prior knowledge of fermentation is necessary and…
Find out more »Christmas Wreaths and Table Centre-Piece Workshop
Come and try your hand at making Christmas Wreaths and Table-Centre Pieces! We will collect all sorts of natural materials from our gardens like seed heads, pods and cones and 'gourdgeous' decorative gourds. Once you start looking, it's amazing what you can spot that will look great on a wreath or Christmas table. And it's great fun trying out different combinations and interweaving them together. Feel free to bring along any materials with you to mix and match with what…
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