Friday 20 March 2020, 7pm. 2 hours with breaks, organised in 3 40 minute chunks. This FREE online design workshop will bring people together and harness the knowledge and experience of participants. Facilitated by Ryan Sandford-Blackburn, permaculture designer. What’s this for? Now is a very good time to put food in the ground. It will… Read More Design workshop – grow your own food
The first of several courses I’m offering this year. See all of them in this separate post. Course summary Skills for gardening, skills for life. Learn to design, inspired by nature. You’ll learn tools to help you live a positive life, the way you want to. The day will open many doors for discovery and… Read More Introduction to permaculture course (on an allotment) 2020. CANCELLED.
Update: I have no plans to run face to face gatherings or courses. All the following should be considered archived. After more demand than I could meet in 2019, I’m happy to offer more courses in 2020. The following is what’s confirmed so far. More details will be added as soon as I have them.… Read More Permaculture courses 2020
Course summary I’m running another one day introduction to permaculture! Skills for gardening, skills for life. Learn to design, inspired by nature. You’ll learn tools to help you live a positive life, the way you want to. The day will open many doors for discovery and help demystify permaculture. Secure your place 5 October course… Read More Introduction to permaculture course (on an allotment) FULLY BOOKED
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I have worked to create, adapt, and tweak a growing number of websites. I always enjoy the creative challenge. It’s good to see where the website fits within the bigger picture. More often than not, the website is the ‘hub’ of digital communications, and in our digital age, that makes it a critical tool! What… Read More Web portfolio
Composting at home is simple if you follow some basic principles. Home made compost is a valuable, organic resource to help grow healthy plants. ***I’ll be teaching composting and other organic ways to manage your garden in the Prosper workshop at Whistlewood Common, Derbyshire on Sunday 10 June 2018.*** Where to start Brown and green. Or,… Read More Composting 101
From gardens we can create healthy systems – whether that’s in our guts or wider reaching into our neighbourhoods. I grow more plants in my front garden than the back. Admittedly we have more space at the front, and the back is a dingy north-facing yard, quite dark and damp. The front is a sun… Read More Proliferation – it’s time for more gardens
ARCHIVED It’s about permaculture. I thought I’d set out my intentions right from the start! Here is an offering of practical workshops to help you live a healthier, happier life. Learn skills for local abundance. I’m genuinely excited to reveal this new series of practical workshops. Scroll down for the key details. Workshop series 9… Read More Propagate, Prosper, Preserve
As part of Le Tour de Yorkshire, 2014 a group of people from across York came together to create something incredible. Inspired by the Incredible Edible movement, and the concepts of ‘Just get on with it and make it happen’ and ‘If you eat you’re in’, we hatched a plan and got on with it.… Read More Incredible Edible Bike Rides around York
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