A one-day master class – Grow Your Own and Protect Our Planet – will take place in the Emmaus Retreat Centre, Swords, Co Dublin, on 25th February 2012.
Nothing quite beats the flavour and freshness of your own home-grown vegetables. There is a great sense of satisfaction in tending to vegetables from sowing to harvest time.
More and more people are realising that it also helps reduce your carbon footprint .. AND it saves on the weekly shopping bill!
Our industrial-style, mass-produced food systems are playing their part in the breakdown of some of our earth systems. Climate change and biodiversity loss can only be faced by all of us, as a community, working together.
This one day workshop is designed to encourage people to grow as much food as possible in their available space – no matter how small. It will fill some of the gaps in your knowledge of cultivating vegetables and give tuition and demonstrations on the steps involved in some of the easiest and most productive crops to grow.
The facilitator, Michael Fox, is a gardening instructor and has been growing produce in gardens and allotments for the past 27 years. He is founder and chairperson of South Dublin Allotments Association and received an RDS Allotment Award in 2010 for his allotment in Tymon Park.
He runs his Plot to Pot Gardening Courses in Terenure and in various venues across Dublin.
Date: 25/2/2012
Time: 10.00am – 4.30pm
Price: €50.00 cost includes lunch and materials
For further info see http://www.emmauscentre.ie/news/default.asp?ID=422&itemId=233.