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Soil Association membership offer: Brocton Leys Organic Gardening Courses Location: Brocton, Stafford 10% discount for SA members on organic gardening courses available throughout the seasons for all abilities. Situated on the edge of Cannock Chase, in an Edwardian garden, a small but wide range of organic fruit and vegetables are grown from seed. We rely on our own compost and green manures, but some horse manure comes from a local stable to add nutrients to the soil. All the waste from the garden gets recycled into recreating compost and fertility for the whole garden. All the lessons are conducted on the theory of organic gardening in a conservatory. There are two greenhouses and a polytunnel for wet weather teaching, two acres of lawns, vegetable gardens, herb garden, woodland fruit trees and an old English apple orchard for practical sessions.
OUTDOOR SEEDS Genehtik Seeds Genehtik seeds is the result of many years of hard farm work of sharing and exchanging genetic information and experiences with farmers and breeders, amateurs and professionals, known and unknown, from different countries and continents. After testing many different crosses with some special varieties and other seeds from around the world, they have created their own varieties - fully stable and well known for good quality. Alerte aux insecticides néonicotinoides dans nos aliments ! Le contexte. Bien que l’Union européenne vienne de décider de restreindre l’usage de trois insecticides néonicotinoïdes (clothianidine, imidaclopride, thiamétoxam) pour 2 années, le problème posé par ces insecticides n’est pas résolu, loin s’en faut. Enquête. Afin de montrer que l’utilisation de ces néonicotinoïdes dépasse largement les 4 usages de 3 produits maintenant restreints (1) et que l’exposition environnementale et humaine à ces produits continue malgré les récentes premières décisions, nous avons décidé de réaliser une campagne d’analyse d’aliments végétaux (2) non concernés par ces mesures d’interdiction.
Organic Gardening Courses: Learn How to Go Green with Your Garden Over the 4 week course I will be presenting a series of lectures that will help you understand both the Big Issues – in other words – the philosophy behind organic gardening, and the Practicalities – in other words – how to do it. I will guide you through the steps you can take to adopt a chemical-free, sustainable and benevolent way of caring for the organic garden that will be good for your health and that of the environment – while keeping the organic garden looking great. This course is for those of you who really care about the bigger picture. You don’t just want to grow a few veg; but want to change your lifestyle, care for our planet, and truly understand the philosophy and history behind the organic garden and sustainable living.
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Organic Horticulture HNC - University of Worcester This well established Organic Horticulture course is ideal for those interested in a career change or for those who are already working in horticulture. The HNC in Organic Horticulture is a part-time course (one day per week over two years) validated by the University of Worcester and taught at Pershore College. Using our organically certified facilities, students develop a sound knowledge of organic principles and standards. The course is broad-based and covers both the growi Pershore College is the West Midlands’ Regional Centre for the Royal Horticultural Society, the national headquarters of the Alpine Garden Society and holds the National Philadelphus and Penstemon collections for the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.
Sustainablefoodproduction To E-Mail: Click Here Our Next Residential Gardening/Cooking Course: 'Gardening & Cooking for Life and a Sustainable Future' £200 / £180 concession – residential course that includes food & accommodation Vegetables to grow in winter: a how-to guide With the help of a bit of cover, and carefully selected varieties of seeds, it is possible to grow vegetables and herbs all year round in the United Kingdom, and presumably therefore in other temperate countries that have frosty winters.In my corner of Scotland, away from the sea and up in the hills, there is only one month of the year that can be guaranteed to be frost free and that is July. Most years we cannot grow courgettes or runner beans outside without cover. In our case, experimenting has paid off and we often have more produce in winter than in summer. Last year by the end of winter we were fed up with salad!