Workshop: Sustainable Gardening
With 30 million gardeners in Britain, imagine the impact we can have on environmental sustainability by each of us doing just one positive thing. Now imagine these 30 million gardeners not just having zero impact on the environment, but actually improving biodiversity and removing more carbon from the atmosphere that we produce. What a force for good that would be.
Join us on this fun, practical workshop, led by our RHS qualified and experienced tutor to explore how we can make a positive difference to our lives and the lives of those who come after us – just by gardening. It has been said ‘the best time to act on the climate crisis was decades ago, the second- best time is now!’
Learn how to:
Make your own wormery
Create an off-grid heated propagator
Up-cycle plastic bottles into a range of useful gardening kit
Start saving your empty plastic drinks and milk bottles to bring along!
Meet Sarah Foss
Sarah began her gardening journey in 2005, working with disabled people helping them to overcome ongoing mental ill-health by accessing gardening. She went on to run gardening projects and sessional tutoring for Age UK Merton and EcoLocal teaching, before completing the RHS Level 3 Diploma in Horticulture, and working as a Senior Tutor, delivering horticultural training to disabled adults, and teaching City and Guilds Practical Horticulture Courses to Level 2.
Sarah has completed her RHS Master of Horticulture degree course with distinction and was the recipient of the RHS Chittenden award this year for coming top of her year group, she continues to pass on knowledge by teaching at EcoLocal, Sutton Parks Department, and Walworth Garden.
In her spare time, Sarah looks after her own garden and allotment and enjoys cooking, sewing and yoga.
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Oct 23- Jul 24). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK23’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.
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