Composting Skills

Green Spaces Course - Day 6  

Composting Skills 

10:00 – 10:45

Introductions – Shared tales of compost heaps and composting making; what we’ve done, what’s worked and what hasn’t. 
Format: Open Discussion 
Facilitator: Katharine  Swansea Community Farm

10:45 – 11:30

Building the soil as the foundation of organic growing, sometimes from scratch. 

Format: Presentation & Questions 

Facilitator: Katharine  Swansea Community Farm

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break & chat 

11:45 – 12:30

Crops, fertility & rotations – designing an approach for your garden. 

Format: Presentation & Questions 

Facilitator: Katharine  Swansea Community Farm

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch & chat 

13:15 – 14:15

Approaches to composting & a tour of the city farm’s compost system 

Format: Presentation, walk & questions 

Facilitator: Katharine  Swansea Community Farm
 

14:15 – 14:30 Tea break & chat 

14:30 – 16:00

Low carbon gardens, recycling and the urban ecosystem – using what you can find and sourcing materials for your gardens. 

Format: Presentation 

Facilitator: Katharine Swansea Community Farm

Participants completing 75% per cent of the courses from the Swansea Community Green Spaces Training will be eligible for certification.

*These sessions will be free for participants on low incomes, on benefits, or who are students. Free places will also be available for members of groups which have previously been involved in the Swansea Community Green Spaces Project.

Participants outside of these groups will be asked to pay £20 for each day session.