Events & Courses
Willow Basketry for Beginners This course has been designed to guide total beginners, step by step through ... Chilli Day and Exotic Crop Fair Willow Basketry for Beginners This course has been designed to guide total beginners, step by step through ... Heritage open weekend Manage Your Soil Care of the soil should be at the heart of every organic garden. This course gives an introduction to sustainable management of soil. Course details... Compost Magic Healthy soil is the key to growing healthy plants. Learn how to make compost and leafmould and create a comfry liquid feed. Course details... Harvest Festival (Incorporating Apple Day) Seed Saving Learn all about growing for seed, why seed should be saved, and how to save seed with our experts from the Heritage Seed Library. For more information click here Course details...
News
Gardening Secrets - 16-05-2013 Gardening Secrets, a book by Les and Jane, has been released! Read more... 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. Read more... Triumph and trepidation as Garden Organic gives cautious welcome to new draft EU seed directive - 09-05-2013 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. Read more... 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.Read more... 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.Read more... Sowing New Seeds update - 10-04-2013 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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 Read more... Launch of pledge to grow veg - 22-03-2010
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