How to identify and make use of medicinal and culinary herbs growing in a West Cork garden near the sea. Gather herbs and make a remedy to take home with you.
Location: Please phone for details
Contact: Bridget Lawlor on 028 38501
Email: belawlor@eircom.net
Ideas for producing healthy salad crops through the autumn and winter. Varieties, cultural techniques, protected crops; all you need to know for all year round salads so that you don’t get caught short in the early summer ‘hungry gap’.
Location: Glebe Gardens, Baltimore
Contact: Jean Perry on 028 20232
Email: glebegardens@eircom.net
Learn about the principles of Permaculture by making an ‘instant’ mulched garden, use perennials, and design a ‘forest garden’ including tree crops, fruit trees and bushes, perennial vegetables and other interesting edible plants.
Location: Coolcaha, Ballydehob
Contact: Graham Strouts on 086 8539900
Email: graham@blackoaktrees.net
Hands-on composting workshop – hot compost, cold compost, worm composting. Know your greens from your browns, try out different containers and systems and learn what’s hot and what’s not in your pile! Tips and tricks for making the best thing to give to your soil – lovely compost!
Location: Madeline McKeever’s, Church Cross, Skibb.
Contact: Tom Atkins on 028 23889
Email: toma@organiccollege.com
Now is the time for making plans, rethinking your design, deciding what is and isn’t worth growing and how to fit it all into your garden and available time. From seed sowing to harvest and all it takes between. With Jean Perry at Glebe Gardens – 4.5 acres of beautiful organic gardens with sculptures and a wildflower meadow.
Location: Glebe Gardens, Baltimore
Contact: Jean Perry on 028 20232
Email: glebegardens@eircom.net
NB This is only a provisional date - Phone near the time for date and details.
Paul McCormick on 028 23742 Email: paulfmccormick@eircom.net
Now that winter is setting in make the most of your warm polytunnel or glasshouse. Discover how to harvest and store your crops and the best way to put your garden to bed so that it will be well rested and ready to spring into life next year.
All gardening workshops are with Jean Perry at Glebe Gardens, Baltimore – 4.5 acres of beautiful organic gardens with garden sculptures and a wildflower meadow.
Jean Perry on 028 20232
Email: glebegardens@eircom.net
only €25 per workshop
or book all 3 for just €60
Hands-on composting workshop – hot compost, cold compost, worm composting. Know your greens from your browns, try out different containers and systems and learn what’s hot and what’s not in your pile! Tips and tricks for making the best thing to give to your soil – lovely compost!
Madeline McKeever’s, Ardagh, Church Cross, Skibbereen
Tom Atkins on 028 23889 Email: toma@organiccollege.com
Learn how to identify, collect and store the seed of native trees and how to prepare them for germination and planting. Start your own native woodland the best way with trees grown from local plants.
Gortnamucklagh Woodland Farm, Skibbereen
Paul McCormick on 028 23742 Email: paulfmccormick@eircom.net
Identifying edible fungi and plants and how to prepare them.
We will be in beautiful woodland nearby. Call or email for details.
Eric Rhodes on 028 38886 Email: sligenamara@eircom.net
Help preserve our heritage varieties by saving your own seeds. You’ll learn about the biology of pollination and how to separate, dry and store your own seed. You’ll also be developing West Cork’s unique local food.
Madeline McKeever’s, Ardagh, Church Cross, Skibbereen
Madeline McKeever on 028 38184 Email: madsmckeever@eircom.net
How to harvest herbs to make home remedies. You will have the opportunity to look at a variety of medicinal herbs growing in an ordinary West Cork garden near the sea and recognize some of the most commonly used herbs for treating simple ailments. You will be able to gather some herbs and we will make a remedy to take home with you. Refreshments will be provided. Bring a packed lunch.
Lissaree, Church Cross, Skibbereen
Bridget Lawlor
Design and plant your own reedbed system. Planning your own? Bring your own site maps for use as case studies. There is a constructed wetland to view on site which takes the sewage from two houses and farmyard runoff.
Madeline McKeever’s, Ardagh, Church Cross, Skibbereen
Feidhlim Harty 023 52983 Email:wetland@eircom.net
Keep your garden thriving through the summer by learning how to weed, mulch, water and control pests organically. Discover which salad crops to grow for winter use.
All gardening workshops are with Jean Perry at Glebe Gardens, Baltimore – 4.5 acres of beautiful organic gardens with garden sculptures and a wildflower meadow.
Jean Perry on 028 20232
Email: glebegardens@eircom.net
only €25 per workshop
or book all 3 for just €60
Give your garden a spring boost the natural way by finding out about sowing, pricking out, planting, successional sowing (to keep your salads coming all year), composting and green manures.
All gardening workshops are with Jean Perry at Glebe Gardens, Baltimore – 4.5 acres of beautiful organic gardens with garden sculptures and a wildflower meadow.
Jean Perry on 028 20232
Email: glebegardens@eircom.net
only €25 per workshop
or book all 3 for just €60