The Grow Your Own Stage Schedule
Join us at the Grow Your Own stage for a jam packed schedule of talks and workshop - all hosted by well known faces, including BBC Gardeners' World presenter Sue Kent, kitchen gardener Rekha Mistry & organic gardener Jekka McVicar. Full details for each day are below.
Weekday schedule
| Thursday | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am - Big Seed Search Live | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 11.00am - Cultivate an abundant organic allotment | Rekha Mistry |
| 12noon - Getting started with an allotment | De-Graft Mensah & Chris Collins |
| 1.00pm - Food growing for wellbeing | Ashley Edwards in conversation with Chris Collins |
| 2.30pm Ask the experts - organic growing question time | Experts from Garden Organic, with Rekha Mistry |
| 3.30pm - Seed saving for the adventurous | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 4.30pm onwards - Member/community group mixer |
| Friday | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am - Big Seed Search Live | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 11.00am - Getting started with an allotment | De-Graft Mensah & Chris Collins |
| 12noon - Garden to Plate - growing and cooking demonstration - August Beth & Mikey John | August Beth & Mikey John |
| 1.15pm - Seed saving & the history of vegetables | August Beth & Catrina Fenton |
| 2.30pm - Ask the experts - organic growing question time | Experts from Garden Organic with August Beth |
| 3.30pm - How to succeed with community growing | |
| 4.30pm - Heritage seed sowing workshop (ticketed) | August Beth & the Heritage Seed Library |
| 5.00pm onwards - Member/community group mixer |
Weekend Schedule
| Saturday | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am - Big Seed Search Live | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 11.00am - Produce without pesticides | Dr. Anton Rosenfeld |
| 12noon - Sue Kent in conversation with Fiona Taylor | |
| 1.15pm - Grow your own organic herbs | Jekka McVicar |
| 2.30pm - Ask the experts - organic growing question time | Experts from Garden Organic, with Jekka McVicar |
| 3.30pm - Seeds for free - beginners seed saving workshop | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 4.30pm onwards - Member/community group mixer |
| Sunday | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am - Big Seed Search Live | The Heritage Seed Library |
| 11.00am - Seeds for free – beginners seed saving workshop | The Heritage Seed Library Team |
| 12noon - Sue Kent in conversation with Fiona Taylor | |
| 1.00pm - Getting started with an allotment | De-Graft Mensah & Chris Collins |
| 2.30pm - Produce without pesticides | Dr. Anton Rosenfeld |
| 3.30pm - onwards - Member/community group mixer |