This is an online taster session. Suitable for all levels.
We are exprienced wait to share our experience and expertise with you in this webinar. We have been growing food all our life.
We will talk through the ways in which you can work as a food grower, how to earn money from growing food and more than 20 different enterprises which could earn you money from growing food or related activities.
All possible to do without huge areas of land, and some will be possible from inside your home.
We will use some case studies and examples to demonstrate how your business might work and where you can go for more help and advice.
This is an introductory taster session designed to give you some inspiration and ideas, and to whet your appetite for learning more about it.
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About the Tutor
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.
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.
Georgina manages our wildlife, ponds and schools programme for edge. Her experience in these areas makes her a valuable part of the edge team.
She has been part of edge since the beginning; we have worked with a number of primary and secondary schools, as well as colleges, universities and workplaces, to create food growing and biodiverse and wildlife friendly areas.
