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A range of training sessions / practical workshops and or events designed to promote home growing and allotmenting in urban situations.

Urban farming workshops

Session length 3/5 hours

Food for Free

A half-day workshop exploring the various sources and uses of wild food.

Back Yard Gardening

Growing your own fruit and vegetables in pots and containers and getting the best from a back yard.

The Indoor Allotment

Growing food around the house, seed sprouting on the window ledge and mushrooms under the stairs!

A Beginners Guide to Allotmenting

Planning and laying out a low maintenance allotment, simple rotation, pest and diseases and what to grow for a few early successes.

Practical Urban Farming workshops

Session length 2/3 hours

Fruit basket

Practical workshop that allows each participant to create a straw lined hanging basket planted with strawberries

Vegetable basket

A hanging basket planted with tumbling tomatoes for each participant.

Herb Basket

A mixture of culinary herbs