Self-Sufficiency planning (UK)

Suitable for anyone who would like to become as self-sufficient with food growing as possible.

What exactly that means to you will vary from person to person - from growing your year's worth of potatoes, to salad available year round, to not having to buy anything from the shops:- how you define self-sufficiency is up to you, and we can help you get there.

This workshop is designed to give you a good overview of growing for self-sufficiency in the UK climate.

Many people we speak to want to move towards self-sufficiency and this needs detailed planning and knowledge of crop cycles and availability.

We offer support with designing your space and your crop selections as well as sowing plans and plant supply.

What does self-sufficiency look like to you?

What are the first steps, how can you meet your needs by growing your own?

We will cover the following in detail:

• Soil health
• No Dig systems
• Growing veg
• Fruit growing
• Herbs
• Pest control
• Produce per m2
• How to produce enough for you and your household
• How to plan your site

Whether you have a balcony or 10acres, we can teach you how to make the most of your growing space year round.

This session is aimed at home growers, community gardens, schools and smallholders.

There will be a follow on workshop for site design if this is something which might help you.

TUTOR INFO

Rachel is a Landscape Architect & Urban Designer specialising in regenerative food production. She designs spaces for food, soil health and wildlife and biodiversity, as well as maximising harvests and reducing the work needed to achieve it.

She learnt to grow food from her Grandparents in Jersey who grew much of their own produce on their acre - including Jersey Royal Potatoes! Rachel still loves potatoes.

Growing food all her life, and commercially for the last 10 years, Rachel has worked with CSA, farms, market gardens, urban farms, community gardens and corporate businesses to increase food production and efficiency, whilst reducing labour and costs.

Rachel founded edge, a non-profit design agency, with the main aims of designing urban food production systems, growing food within whole ecosystems and educating others on food production systems and ecological farming practices.

Georgina is trained in education, wildlife gardening and pond creation, heading up our schools and education area of work.

She has a passion for edible flowers and loves adding these into all of our growing systems, as well as bog gardens, mini ponds and pollinator planting.

Georgina has been working with edge for the last 8 years and would love every school to be growing food in some way to support children learning about food and nature.

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