Advanced Food Growing Techniques Class

Join this food growing workshop designed for gardeners who are comfortable with the basics and ready to deepen their practice through ecological design principles. It's the perfect activity if you want to learn how to create and care for a resilient, productive, and beautiful food garden that works with natural processes, building biodiversity and supporting wildlife while growing delicious edible crops.In this session, you'll explore how to:

• Plan for successional growing – Use strategic timing and plant selection to ensure continuous harvests and year-round productivity.
• Create intercropping systems – Discover companion planting and how to design edible plant guilds for mutual benefit, including food forest gardening.
• Use ‘edimentals’ and perennial vegetables – Learn to select and establish productive ornamental-edibles and perennial vegetables for beautiful, abundant landscapes.
• Apply regenerative methods – Focus on planting with benefits for wildlife, and integrate habitats and composting systems to suit your food growing spaces.

This workshop challenges traditional horticultural conventions, such as the separation between ornamental and edible gardening. You'll be empowered to transform your growing space into a thriving ecosystem that serves harvest, habitat, and beauty in equal measure. This experience will reshape your perspective, equipping you with the skills to cultivate a truly harmonious and abundant garden. A host of new ecological design principles and practical techniques to apply to your own growing space. Read more details