Self-Sufficiency planning (UK) ONLINE

Suitable for anyone who would like to become as self-sufficient with food growing as possible.

ONLINE

What exactly SELF-SUFFICIENCY means to you will vary from person to person - from growing your year's worth of potatoes, to salad available year round, to not having to buy anything from the shops:- how you define self-sufficiency is up to you, and we can help you get there.

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.

This workshop is designed to give you a good overview of growing for self-sufficiency in the UK climate.

Many people we speak to want to move towards self-sufficiency and this needs detailed planning and knowledge of crop cycles and availability.

We offer support with designing your space and your crop selections as well as sowing plans and plant supply.

What does self-sufficiency look like to you?

What are the first steps, how can you meet your needs by growing your own?

We will cover the following topics:

• Soil health
• No Dig systems
• Growing veg
• Fruit growing
• Herbs
• Pest control
• Produce per m2
• How to produce enough for you and your household
• How to plan your site

Whether you have a balcony or 10acres, we can teach you how to make the most of your growing space year round.

This session is aimed at home growers, community gardens, schools and smallholders.

There will be a follow on workshop for site design if this is something which might help you.

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Testimonials:

We thoroughly enjoyed day and came away with a much better understadning of the importance of good soil and how to manage it.

VD, Berkshire

I have so many words of thanks, but it's been really inspiring meeting yourself and others wanting to pursue sustainable food growing as a path!

KZ, London

Thank you again for a great 4 months of learning, it's been fantastic and has really changed the way I plant and grow!

JS, Henley

Lovely course, thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend :)

Lyndsey, Berks

I would recommend edge (formerly incredible edible) to anyone. I have never been a very confident gardener but the courses I have done have provided me with such a wealth of information and expertise that I now feel encouraged to give things a go.

Lorna, Wantage

"Very interesting and supportive. It has given me the confidence to research and try things I hadn't thought about before. Thank you Rachael"

Sarah, Berkshire

"Urban Design OBU benefited greatly from a workshop on urban food production using the UFP toolkit by Rachel Hammond of Edge landscaping. The students managed to develop a masterplan for a global city site measuring the productivity of their designs, management issues as well as understanding the social and environmental benefits of UFP. The workshops are compelling and effective for valuing UFP."

Regina L. Oxford Brookes University

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.

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 is trained in education, wildlife gardening and pond creation, heading up our schools and education area of work.

She has a passion for edible flowers and loves adding these into all of our growing systems, as well as bog gardens, mini ponds and pollinator planting.

Georgina has been working with edge for the last 8 years and would love every school to be growing food in some way to support children learning about food and nature.