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Learn hands-on organic growing practices from expert tutors. Get started with the principles of organic gardening or develop your skills and knowledge. See our course list below or find out more about training.
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  1. Apple on apple tree
    • Principles of Organic Gardening

    How Organic Growing Benefits your Garden - Weds 18th Sept

    Join us for this short online talk to find out how organic growing benefits your garden, wildlife and the planet.

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    Organic demonstration garden tour - Thurs 19th September

    Savour the stunning autumn colours in our garden this September. The vegetable beds will be bursting with beans, ready for drying and seed saving.

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    • Members

    Garden Organic Members Day - Saturday 21st September

    Join us at our demonstration garden, Ryton Gardens, for a day of organic inspiration!

  4. Multicoloured Beans
    • Seed saving
    • Heritage Seed Library

    How to Save your Own Seeds: Harvesting & Storing - Weds 25th Sept

    In this online lunchtime talk, our seed experts Marcin and Lucy will show you why seed saving is important – with a focus on harvesting and storing.

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    Heritage Seed Library guided tour - Thurs 26th September

    Our Heritage Seed Library is at the heart of our seed conservation work - and holds the National Collection of Heritage Vegetables. Get exclusive behind-the-scenes access on this tour, which will take you to our working spaces to reveal how and why we grow heritage varieties for seed.

  6. Butterfly on verbena

    Organic demonstration garden tour - Sat 28th September

    Savour the stunning autumn colours in our garden this September, for our last garden tour. There'll be plenty of beautiful pumpkins and squash to admire, and the sunflowers and heleniums will still be going strong.

  7. The wildlife pond in February
    • Wildlife gardening
    • Gardening and growing

    How to Build an Organic Wildlife Pond - Weds 2nd October

    Join Chris Collins at this hands-on workshop to learn how to build a pond – one of the best things you can add to your garden to attract wildlife.

  8. Hands with soil
    • Soil
    • Gardening and growing

    Organic Basics: Soil Health+ Gardeners Q&A - Thurs 10th October (pay as you feel)

    Chris Collins will walk you through the basics of soil health, showing you how to maintain and improve your veg beds and borders. Entry to the talk is by donation at the end of the talk.

  9. Apple on apple tree
    • Fruit
    • General gardening

    Fruit Pruning for Healthy Trees - Weds 27th November

    Join Elaine Goold for this online talk to learn how to prune apple and pear trees.

  10. Growing space
    • Vegetables and herbs

    Planning your growing space online course

    Successful organic growing is all about good planning. In this course you will learn how to plan your plot organically, with a focus on crop rotation, preventing pests and diseases, maximising harvests and planning for the year ahead.