Polytunnel / Greenhouse Design

This is a course at our demonstration Market Garden at Hestercombe Gardens - public transport options are limited.

This course is for you if you already have or are considering a polytunnel or indoor growing space and need some help maximising its use all year.

Designing an indoor space is crucial for maximum crops and increasing temperatures is part of the key to success. We can teach you various tricks and tips for raising the temperature within your growing space, as well as crops to grow throughout the season, using all the growing space available.

Suitable for any gardener with an indoor growing space or considering one.

Topics include:

• Irrigation options
• Warming the space in winter
• Cooling the space in summer
• seasonal crops for indoor growing
• Balancing wildlife
• Managing soils indoors

Please note, as a small non-profit organisation, it's not sustainable to offer refunds.

If you need to cancel your place up to one month of the course, you will be offered a credit towards another workshop.

After that time, we can only offer a credit if we have been able to re-sell your place on the course.

Please wear sturdy footwear and dress for all weathers!

This course is delivered outside on site, and the ground is uneven. We will spend some time under cover in the polytunnel / grlasshouse.

The venue is rural.

The nearest train station is Taunton.

Suitable for:

Anyone who grows food at in a greenhouse or a polytunnel, regardless of size.

About the event (including practical elements):

We will talk through our tried and tested methods for indoor growing, crop choices and seasonality, jobs for different times of the year, irrigation options, etc.

We will carry out some maintenance tasks within our polytunnel, as well as look at the glasshouses.

This is a chance to get quick wins from your indoor crops!

Next steps:

We offer training and support on site, as well site design and mentoring support for food growing

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TUTOR INFO

Rachel is a Landscape Architect & Urban Designer specialising in regenerative food production. She designs spaces for food, soil health and wildlife and biodiversity, as well as maximising harvests and reducing the work needed to achieve it.

She learnt to grow food from her Grandparents in Jersey who grew much of their own produce on their acre - including Jersey Royal Potatoes! Rachel still loves potatoes.

Growing food all her life, and commercially for the last 10 years, Rachel has worked with CSA, farms, market gardens, urban farms, community gardens and corporate businesses to increase food production and efficiency, whilst reducing labour and costs.

Georgina is an education expert who runs our school and family sessions as well as building our ponds and bog gardens for us. She is a specialist in song birds and wild mushrooms.

Rachel founded edge, a non-profit design agency, with the main aims of designing urban food production systems, growing food within whole ecosystems and educating others on food production systems and ecological farming practices.