4-part Year-Round Ecological Food Growing Course

Wanting to learn how to grow your own food throughout the year or to simply improve your food growing skills?

Join us in Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for this 4-part course, taking you on a full circle yearlong ecological food growing journey!

Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome.

Over this 4-part course you will learn the basics of soil biology, composting systems, best practice seed sowing, planning your food growing year, crop care, winter crops and seed saving – all through a mix of fun practical and theoretical learning, using wildlife-friendly and organic methods. The course is designed so that you can apply your knowledge at each stage of the course in your garden at home too, no matter how big or small – or on your allotment or your balcony!

Course Dates

21/3/26 – Pt.1 – Soil, Compost and Seed Sowing

26/5/26 – Pt.2 – Planning for Winter Food Growing

11/7/26 – Pt.3 – Crop Care

12/9/26 – Pt.4 – Winter Salads and Seed Saving

Each day will be 10am to 4pm

Places are limited to 10 people, in order to maintain a quality experience for those attending this course.

Tea, coffee, snacks and a hearty lunch of soup, bread and kitchen garden salad will be provided on each day.

Please dress appropriately for the weather with sturdy shoes or boots that don’t mind getting muddy and be prepared to get your hands dirty.

Please do consider using public transport or bicycle to get here and if you’re coming by car, please park in the tree-lined avenue nearby. For more travel information click here.

Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden is part of Asthall Wild CIC, a social enterprise with the aim of helping to create a healthier, happier food system for all. We grow wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food using Organic methods and Permaculture principles. We grow for a small, local box scheme, for chefs and for the Manor kitchen. We do this while providing a mixture of wild habitats for beneficial creatures to feed, hunt, sleep, bask, breed and hibernate in.

 

The funds raised from this course will go towards delivering the aims of Asthall Wild CIC. For more information, click here.

The course will be delivered by Tim Mitchell, a qualified Level 2 Organic food growing tutor with 10 years of food-growing teaching experience alongside community food growing and commercial Organic food production.

Accommodation Offer

In order to make our workshops more accessible for those coming from far afield, we are offering bed and a self-service breakfast in the Manor for the nights before, during and or after the workshop.  If you wish to book a bed, as well as the course, then follow the instructions for booking accommodation (*This link will be coming in the new year. Please email [email protected] if you have urgent enquries) Bedrooms will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

Once you’ve booked we’ll then send you details for some of the many local places we’d recommend, so that you can book your evening’s food, drinks and soiree.