Courses

Our Good Gardeners Demo-Farm

with our straw bale kitchen and seating area and other facilities offers Permaculture Intro courses and training courses for overseas charity workers. It is available as a course venue and as a bonding and party venue in this picturesque country setting in S. Hertfordshire. We also run a specialist course – Compost Toilets the Lost Art. This course is based on the 5,000 year old technology of the ancient Chinese.

Courses suspended while we look for a new farm

from left to right: post and rail kitchen with burners and pizza oven, 12 X12 fully insulated classroom, HH-3 DRY toilet

Pizza oven and seating area

Clay Oven Building

Come and build a brick pizza oven in the Green Belt of north London DAY 1 This course starts with dismantelling the old one that collapsed due to being un protected from the rain. We will clean the bricks…
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Rocket Stove Building with Tin and Clay

This innovative rocket stove was designed on the Well End Micro-farm by Matt Coston and Richard Higgins. It has now been finally tweaked to boil a LITRE of water in 3 minutes. Come and build rocket stoves in the green…
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Intro to Permaculture and Low Impact Living

Sustainable Agriculture London offer this dynamic course Introduction to Permaculture and Low Impact Living This is truly an Holistic course. This is advanced self perpetuating sustainable Permaculture in action. All things from the earth should be returned to the earth….
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Planting fruit trees and bushes in a forest garden

This is a one day course covering the design placement and planting of fruit trees and bushes within a forest garden. We will be planning a strawbale heat sink within the forest garden and laying the rubber tyre foundation, to…
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Fruit Tree Grafting and Budding

Welcome to our Tree Grafting and Budding one day course We have about a dozen fruit trees on our Micro-farm and we have now introduced some into the forest garden area. We have three varieties of apple , a pear…
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