Grow Your Own – Compost Corner – CANCELLED

*** APOLOGIES, THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19***

It is time to get going and Grow Your Own delicious, nutritious veg in 2020. 

Our Grow Your Own programme is a series of nine short courses providing all the basic knowledge required to get growing at home. Our focus is on growing vegetables whilst being mindful of nature.

Compost is black gold and an essential ingredient of growing fruit and vegetables in the home garden.

This course explores everything you need to know about how to compost successfully. From constructing a heap and the right mix of materials to whether or not to turn it, this course will answer all your composting questions.

There is a classroom-based theory part to this course, as well as an outdoor practical where we will look at and work with the compost made on site.

This course will equip you with the fundamental techniques of creating your own ‘black gold’ compost

• Theory – constructing a heap, materials, turning
• Practical – looking at and turning the onsite compost heap
• Hands on, practical demonstrations
• Suitable for growers of all levels

Please note: This course will involve outdoor demonstrations. Please come prepared for working in wet and cold weather. All tools and working gloves will be provided.

Tutor: Malcolm Berry ‘The Dreaded Gardener’

Led by experienced grower, Malcolm Berry. Malcolm Berry has been in professional horticulture for more than 20 years, working mostly with fruit and vegetables, including seven years in the double-walled garden at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. He has delivered courses for the Royal Horticultural Society and ‘Growing the Future/Tyfu Pobl’, amongst others, and has been teaching courses at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre for seven years.  He has a particular interest in polyculture and the encouragement of biodiversity, and had an article published on the subject in the RSPB magazine.

The course is suitable for anyone aged 16 or over.

Workshop Fee: £30 

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Please bring a packed lunch on the day. Hot drinks and biscuits will be provided. 

This is one in a series of Grow Your Own courses at Denmark Farm in 2020. The full list includes: Pruning Fruit Trees In Winter, Secrets of the Soil Theory & Practical, Sowing Vegetables Under Cover, Sowing Vegetables Outdoors, Planting Out Vegetables, The Summer Greenhouse / Polytunnel, The Winter Greenhouse / Polytunnel and Compost Corner.  

You may also be interested in our other courses and events at Denmark Farm, including Willow Cultivation & Management, Traditional Hedge-laying, ecology, conservation and countryside crafts. See our events page for the full list.

If you’d like to turn it into a mini break and stay at Denmark Farm, please enquire about availability in our self-contained Eco Lodge or Shared Dormitory.

All proceeds from our events and holidays are ploughed directly back into managing our 40 acre nature reserve. Thank you for your support and please do come to visit soon.