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Marlene Barrett | marlene@organiclea.org.uk | 109 posts
Walthamstow Yellow Cress hits the news today and the market stall and box scheme salad bags this week. Read all about it in the Guardian: Walthamstow yellow cress: the culinary comeback of an old Eastender And on Ru’s grower’s blog: On the Yellow Cress Road
May 6, 2013
This month’s Open Day on Sunday 26 May at Hawkwood Plant Nursery is a celebration! Our first fully certified organic produce has been harvested from the site, and the day will feature a presentation by acclaimed organic farmer Iain Tolhurst. Iain Tolhurst has been a practising organic vegetable producer for over 37 years, one of [...]
April 28, 2013
As the seed sowing gathers pace in the glasshouse (see Ru’s grower’s blog for musings on this sowing and sprouting season), we look ahead to this season’s plant sales – find out what’s on offer and where this year! Stalls throughout May and a peak either side into April and June, at the Hornbeam market [...]
April 15, 2013
Tuesday 6.30 to 9.30pm for 7 weeks starting Tuesday 30 April This course is aimed at beginner gardeners who wish to gain gardening skills and knowledge. The focus will be on vegetable growing, but much of the course content will be relevant to all gardening. Learn how to assess your soil, design a vegetable garden, [...]
April 10, 2013
This course guides, inspires and supports, those seeking a more sustainable and integrated life. Both practical and personally transforming, it will provide you with the life skills needed for these times of transition. The course has previously run on alternate weekends over the autumn at Organiclea’s Hawkwood Nursery, a wonderful example of permaculture regenerating land [...]
April 8, 2013
Free Wildlife Gardening Workshop Sunday 14 April, 2-4.30pm at Hawkwood Plant Nursery Learn how to ensure birds, butterflies, hedgehogs survive this cruellest April on record. We have decided to give this workshop because of the risks that decreasing wildlife poses for gardens and wider ecosystems. The workshop is free, but we may have an in [...]
March 26, 2013
Explore your connection to nature and tap into its invigorating energy, at Organiclea’s beautiful Hawkwood Nursery site. This workshop – led by Adrian Harris – will give you the opportunity to explore your connection to nature through your senses. A gentle walk will be interspersed with simple exercises that will invite you to deepen your [...]
March 6, 2013
Sustainable Beekeeping course: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June 2013. This course is for anyone from beginners to experienced beekeepers who is interested in learning about more sustainable methods of beekeeping. The course will cover basic bee biology, forage plants, honeybee behaviour, different types of hive, honeybee health, and the practice of keeping bees within [...]
February 28, 2013
Say what you like about them, but I wouldn’t have got where I am today without a good food scandal every so often. The Tesco horsemeat saga is merely the latest chapter: in recent memory, over the white noise of pesticide contamination, there’s been salmonella, e-coli, foot and mouth, “mad cow”, bird flu, genetic engineering. [...]
February 25, 2013
Saturday & Sunday 2 – 3 March 2013, 9.30am-3.30pm The essentials of pruning and growing fruit trees and bushes: a weekend course for beginner and experienced gardeners who have (or would like) fruit trees and bushes and would like to know how to properly establish and maintain them. This course seeks to build skills and [...]
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