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Events & Courses

Willow Basketry for Beginners
13 Jul 2013 - Ryton gardens

This course has been designed to guide total beginners, step by step through ...
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Chilli Day and Exotic Crop Fair
17 Aug 2013 - Ryton gardens
A day of all things hot and exotic! Come along and enjoy the stalls, chilli di...
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Willow Basketry for Beginners
24 Aug 2013 - Ryton gardens

This course has been designed to guide total beginners, step by step through ...
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Heritage open weekend
14 Sep 2013 - Ryton gardens
FREE access to the gardens....
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Manage Your Soil
21 Sep 2013 - Ryton gardens

Care of the soil should be at the heart of every organic garden. This course gives an introduction to sustainable management of soil.


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Compost Magic
21 Sep 2013 - Ryton gardens

Healthy soil is the key to growing healthy plants. Learn how to make compost and leafmould and create a comfry liquid feed.


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Harvest Festival (Incorporating Apple Day)
12 Oct 2013 - Ryton gardens
A harvest celebration incorporating our famous apple day.
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Seed Saving
17 Oct 2013 - Garden Organic

Learn all about growing for seed, why seed should be saved, and how to save seed with our experts from the Heritage Seed Library.

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News

Gardening Secrets - 16-05-2013

Gardening Secrets, a book by Les and Jane, has been released!


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Fighting for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens key themes for AGM and Members Day - 14-05-2013

The role of campaigning in the Fight for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens were the key themes as Garden Organic hosted its 2013 Annual General Meeting and Members Day event.

 A panel of guest speakers discussing the Fight for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens theme was the centrepiece of the Members Day held on Saturday 11 May at Garden Organic’s Ryton Gardens site. The panel comprising of Garden Organic’s President Tim Lang, Friends of the Earth’s Head of Nature Paul De Zylva and environmental and gardening journalist John Walker, all delivered a set of engaging and insightful talks around the key theme of Fighting Biodiversity and Safer Gardens.


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Triumph and trepidation as Garden Organic gives cautious welcome to new draft EU seed directive - 09-05-2013
Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, has given a cautious welcome to the new EU seed directive as a “step in the right direction” but with a need for “vigilance in the future” after fears the proposals would put plant biodiversity at risk.
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Garden Organic’s Wildlife Weekend gets Bank Holiday crowds buzzing with excitement - 09-05-2013

Garden Organic’s first ever Wildlife Weekend left those attending buzzing with excitement with talks and activities on bees among the highlights of the two day event.


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New ‘Art in the Gardens’ exhibition - 24-04-2013

A new exhibition ‘Art in the Gardens’ showcasing the work of a range of Midlands based artists has opened at Ryton Gardens.

The ‘Art in the Gardens’ exhibition will highlight the work of a different local artist each month, with various works of art installed throughout the popular Ryton Gardens site. The event starts this month with a series of abstract art paintings by Stratford-upon-Avon born artist Sonia Bublaitis.
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Garden Organic and Raymond Blanc launch National Heritage Garden competition - 24-04-2013

Garden Organic has joined forces with Raymond Blanc to launch a new competition to design a heritage garden at the famous Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons  restaurant.

Launching in April this year, The Raymond Blanc National Heritage Garden Competition, in association with Garden Organic, the Society of Garden Designers and Hartley Botanic, has been conceived to raise awareness of the on-going work by Garden Organic in promoting organic gardening methods. The Heritage Garden will also showcase the huge importance of preserving knowledge and the use of heritage plants through Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library.
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Sowing New Seeds update - 10-04-2013
The Sowing New Seeds project has been involved in a number of meetings and workshops with groups across the UK.
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64,000 people demand National Bee Action Plan - 29-01-2013

Giant bees descended on Downing Street on Tuesday (January 29) to sting the government into delivering a Bee Action Plan, as part of Friends of the Earth’s Bee Cause campaign.

They delivered over 64,000 demands from UK residents, gathered by Friends of the Earth and Garden Organic, which is running a parallel campaign called Bee Heard.


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The government must stop winging it on bees - 12-12-2012

Leading organic charity joins forces with Friends of the Earth to challenge the government to come up with a proper national plan for bees.


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Learn how to make your own compost to use on your veg plot - 07-11-2012

Are you growing your own local food and having to spend more than you would like on buying in compost? Are you looking to become more sustainable and self-sufficient on your growing site? Help is at hand! The Community Composting Network have received funding from the Big Lottery Local Food Fund to set up and run a unique course for local food growing groups to give them the skills and knowledge to set up their own composting projects.


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Ambassadors on GQT - 16-10-2012

Ambassadors for GO Bob Flowerdew and James Wong were featured in Gardeners Question time this week talking about hardy exotic plants in James's back garden.


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The Gardening Conference 2011 - The outcomes - 11-07-2011

From 13th to 14th of May 2011 Garden Organic held two days of conferences at its Ryton Gardens HQ


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Launch of pledge to grow veg - 22-03-2010
Make the One Pot Pledge and give it a grow!
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