Made with Rice, Mold and sugar
The organic workshop had to start with the basic understanding that living soils and plant health are critical to good vegetables. Not just pristine but healthy; not just from a plant view point and when considering diet, gut and mental health. They are linked…
Space saving, easy and cheap way to plant your Lettuce
The second beginners workshop covers seeds and planting up. This includes separating and potting on some live supermarket herbs, about a dozen bay trees planted from seed in a tiny pot and planting seedlings grown here into a rain gutter. The compost mix is…
Free Organic and Composting Workshop
The two beginners workshops that ran on Saturday 10-11am and Wednesday 7-8pm, have now finished. Those slots are now open in the first week of August, replaced with a free Organic and Composting workshop. Please register by clicking this link. If you can’t register…
Free Beginners Workshop
What is covered? Everything for the course is provided although A few have regretted not bringing a notepad. The backdrop of these workshops is low cost, organic and demystification by explaining rather than rote learning. Korean natural farming is introduced and discussed in all…
Wednesday Workshop #4
With brooding rain clouds and a forecast that confirmed rain, I moved the workshop into the kitchen. How to cook veggies and use herbs was a big part of the discussion of the last workshop so it was fitting. As I’m a mint fan…
Helping in the community
Our Saturday workshop went well, numbers are fluctuating; some folks are going away on much needed holidays. We covered transplanting and spent some time discussing Korean Natural Farming (KNF) and we’ll cover that in more detail next week as we did on Wednesday’s course….
Donation to EATS Rosyth
Today was the first food donation from the poly tunnel and included Kale, courgettes (I think the baby ones taste nicer) baby and mis-shapen swede, rainbow swiss chard and some potted parsley. Cut and delivered within half an hour.
Looking Lush and green
It’s just past the solstice and plants are now producing, growing, flowering and generally looking verdant.
Weekend Workshop 1
Today was the first weekend class. There were five people who attended, with varying degrees of experience. It was a hands off class, I did lots of rambling. We covered, pots sizes, potting on, compost and adding drainage and moisture retention, seed sizes, how…