Grow Your Own Food Gardening Course March 29th 2025 (low income)

Grow Year Round No Dig Gardening Day Course

with Stephanie Hafferty

Saturday March 29th 2025 from 10:30 – 4:30pm

 

Get ready for a productive growing year on this organic gardening day course at my homestead in beautiful Ceredigion.

Learn how to create a productive, wildlife friendly and climate resilient edible garden whatever your space, using different resources and my time saving, practical and affordable tips and techniques, based on decades of growing food.

So that everyone can relax, enjoy the day and ask all the questions they wish, I keep the group numbers for each course a small, friendly size.

I’ll help you gain the skills to plan your growing year, outside and in undercover spaces, for year round harvests.

We don’t know what the weather will have in store for us in 2025, so I’ll demonstrate different ways to be prepared for different growing conditions, including easy homemade crop protection and indoor growing.

Learn different ways of creating a regenerative no dig garden. We’ll explore all of the Homestead, including the productive polytunnel, greenhouse, water harvesting systems, experimental mulch beds, perennial veg, fruit bushes and trees, annual veg beds and a lot more.

The whole homestead garden, on a hillside, was created by just one person (me!) 

I am running many different course at the homestead during 2025 – full details are here.
There are vouchers available too here. 

The day includes:

• • How to create a no dig garden, easily and affordably

• • How to create a healthy soil ecosystem

• • Different mulches and cover crops, including using green manures

• • Many kinds of compost and their applications

• • Composting techniques for every size of garden

• • Homemade plant and soil feeds

• • Water harvesting and saving

• • Propagation and sowing – including frugal off-grid solutions

• • Keeping plants healthy

• • Crop protection

• • Discouraging unwanted visitors (aka “pests”)

• • Growing undercover – greenhouses, polytunnels, cloches, homemade techniques

• • Maximise growing space with companion planting, interplanting and multi sowing

• • Resilient ways to garden in a changing climate

• • Wildlife gardening, and how working with wildlife increases yields, protects crops and enhances plant health
  • Seed saving
  • Real life solutions for what to do if you’re going on holiday/ working away/ can’t get to your plot for a while
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  • Practical hands on activities according to the time of year
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  • How to grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers to create your own “larder in the garden”
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  • As well as being an experienced grower, I specialise in what to do with what you have grown, and will share thrifty tips to increase your self sufficiency – and save money too.

Depending on the weather and time of year, there may be practical activities too. The day course starts at 10:30 and ends around 4:30. Please arrive from 10am.

Day course prices

Cost for the day including beverages is £95 – £80 for low income. Please bring a packed lunch and any snacks you wish to have. Full information here.

Please choose the “voucher/course” option for the drop down menu when booking your place. If you’re buying books at the same time, please choose the relevant postage costs instead for those.

Many of us are really being affected by the cost of living crisis, and the seemingly endless increase in the price of food, utilities and almost every aspect of daily life. To help with this, there’s a discounted fee of £80 available to book here.

It’s the same course, just a little cheaper. I don’t ask for any proof of income. I appreciate that this will still be too high for some people, so please contact me to discuss.

Location and other information

The course takes place entirely outside in the garden and some of the garden buildings including the polytunnel and outdoor kitchen (an open fronted barn).

Situated an easy 10 minute drive from Lampeter, Ceredigion, full details of location are provided when you book.

Please read the Terms and Conditions, including the cancellation policy, before booking. Thank you!

There are plenty of places to stay in the area, ranging from stunning glamping sites, to gorgeous seaside hotels. There’s a list of suggested places to visit here.

The courses are not suitable for children or dogs, except assistance dogs on leads.

Accessibility

The gardens are accessed via a short flight of steps from the lane. Some of the gardens are fairly flat, but the orchard is sloped. It is not a very steep incline but is on a hill. Please contact me for more information and to discuss your needs.

 

Bespoke courses and workshops

If you’d like to book a bespoke day course for your group, please contact me.