Don’t miss this event organised by the Healing Garden’s Cooperative: We are holding a Community Surplus Veg Sale as part of our upcoming Annual Open Day and offer you the opportunity as a local food grower to sell or donate your surplus produce, as well as plants, preserves and related items. Saturday 20th June 2015 11 am – 3pm Healing Gardens Cooperative,73A Tor...
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We are sharing info about this great event at Glastonbury Abbey: We need your help The hunt is on to find exactly how many species of wildlife call Glastonbury Abbey home. And with 36 acres to search, ranging from ponds to orchards, fields and hedgerows, the team needs your help. The wildlife experts will...
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Carol Stone from Feed Avalon gave a fantastic workshop on how to keep your plants healthy as part of the Grow Your Own Garden Course. Aimed at new gardeners and attendees of the Grow Your Own Garden Course, the workshop helped people to learn how to manage weeds, once they knew more about them...
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A new community gardening club is starting next week at the Red Brick Building Community Garden. Please see the details below. All are very welcome!
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Are you interested in market gardening? Or starting a CSA project? Or simply growing on a larger scale and selling your surplus? Want to create a livelihood from the land? This course is for you! A 2 day course in how to scale up and sell or share produce to feed your community 27th...
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Saturday 23rd May & Sunday 24th may 2015 9.30am – 5pm both days About the Course This stand alone course is an inspiring introduction to permaculture ethics, principles and design. It can help you test the water before undertaking a full permaculture design course. The weekend will explore ‘what is permaculture?’ including the core...
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Carol Stone from Feed Avalon led a fantastic hands-on workshop all about propagation. This was the fifth session of the Grow Your Own Garden Course. Covering seed sowing and different vegetative methods of reproducing plants, the workshop shared top tips and best practices about successfully increasing the numbers of plants for your own garden....
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As part of the Grow Your Own Garden Course, Nicole from Feed Avalon led a workshop on making the most of your space. She introduced the basic methods of surveying your garden, using very simple tools. The session introduced how to make a base map and the important things you need to survey when...
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The third workshop as part of the Grow Your Own Garden Course supported participants to learn how to plan their plot. It helped people to decide what to grow, where and when. The session was so packed we are now upgrading to a bigger venue, and are having to create a mini-creche! Thanks so...
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