Vegetable Growing for Beginners

Town Grown’s own Anna Lock and Vicki Cooke will be blending horticulture and permaculture principles and drawing on years of hands-on experience in food cultivation.

ANNA LOCKE has worked for over 20 years as a community gardener, across many different types of edible garden projects. She is a permaculture consultant, designer, author and a local farmer. Her overall aim is to empower others to plant more food and make delicious things to eat.

VICKI COOKE has worked as an organic vegetable grower for over a decade. This has included growing heirloom vegetables for seed for the Heritage Seed Library, to running a one acre walled kitchen garden at Hampton Court Palace. Outside of work she’s grown edibles on allotments, rooftops and windowsills and is a member of the RHS fruit, veg and herb committee.

• Creating and maitaining healthy soil
• The What, Where & When of sowing and planting
• Companion and "guild" planting
• How to increase biodiversity
• Easy to grow edible flowers
• Interesting vegetables
• Organic and regenerative gardening practices

Tickets are £60 for the full day and include a light lunch and refreshments. Please advise us of any dietary requirements when you book your place.

We also have two reduced price places for low/unwaged attendees. Get in touch for more info at Z3JvdyB8IHRvd25ncm93biAhIGNvICEgdWs=

About the venue

The Compound is a creative community space run by W.Ave Arts. Town Grown will be planting some of the containers in the yard to demonstrate how great food can be grown in the smallest of spaces. Check out more of their events here: www.wavearts.org

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