Family Learning: Community Growing Short Course

Join us for a half-day session where you can learn the essential skills for starting and maintaining food crops. Grow food plants sustainably for yourself, your family and your community!

This course is for families who would like to learn how to grow food plants together. Have fun at our teaching space, Gwernyfed Walled Garden. You’ll have a tour of the garden and get to know how and why we grow in a regenerative way. Then there’ll be making, sowing, and learning how to care for seedlings.

You will learn how to:

  • Make eco-friendly seed pots
  • Sow and learn about unusual salad seeds 
  • Plant perennial vegetables 
  • Learn about unusual edible perennials and how they can help us cope with climate change 
  • Discover regenerative techniques to help your garden bloom


Who will I learn from?

Rashid Benoy

Rashid is a tutor on our Regenerative Horticulture NVQ. He is passionate about the plant world. Founder and Director of Flora Cultura, a charity which aims to help people through social and therapeutic horticulture.

 


Key Information

Date – Saturday 26th February 2022

TimeTwo sessions available! Morning session is from 10am – 12pm, afternoon session is from 1pm – 3pm.

Location – Gwernyfed Walled Garden, Three Cocks, Brecon LD3 0SG

What you need – You should wear suitable, weather dependent clothing and boots as you may get muddy!

Please bring a water bottle.

Cake, tea, coffee, and squash available free of charge.


How much does it cost?

Powys residents go free! This is a community course and is free to people living in Powys. With thanks to the UK Community Renewal Fund.

1 ticket covers 1 adult and up to 2 children.

We would like our short courses to be available to all regardless of ability to pay. We, therefore, ask you to pay what you can towards this event. For this course, we have 4 tickets per session. 2 tickets per session are available free of charge to Powys residents. If you reside in Powys and would like to contribute, please consider purchasing a priced ticket!

If you are a Powys resident, you are eligible for a free ticket. If all of the allocated free tickets have gone, please contact us on info@blackmountainscollege.uk.

Please note that spaces on this course are limited. We operate on a first-come, first-serve basis.


Accessibility

This course is rated as 1 (most accessible) on our scale of accessibility. Read more about our accessibility policy on our Eventbrite page, as well as our full Terms and Conditions. When booking, you confirm you agree to these terms.

We will follow the most recent COVID measures and protocols in order to keep everyone safe and healthy for the duration of the course.

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