Wildlife Ponds & water for the food growing garden

This is an in person course at our demonstration Market Garden in Berkshire - public transport options are limited.

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.

Suitable for all levels of knowledge

This is an in person course at our demonstration market garden.

We will be taking a tour of the market garden, with an opportunity to taste and touch plants, and ask questions.

Please wear sturdy footwear and dress for all weathers!

Trying to grow food without some water in the growing area will be setting yourself up to fail. Most of the problems we see people having with food crops, are direct results of lack of water.

We can teach you the easiest, cheapest and most effective ways to incorporate water on your site, whether that be kitchen garden, market garden or farm scale growing.

This practical workshop is designed as an informative walk through some of the options available to you to incorporate water with your growing, and the benefits of doing so.

We will make a mini pond and talk through other methods of incorporating water in your site.

We can help you create your own pond design and with pond plant supply.

This course will be delivered within our market garden, some inside the polytunnel and some outside, where the ground is uneven.

Refreshments provided.

The venue is rural and the nearest shop is a 10 minute drive away (Lambourn).

The nearest train station is Didcot or Hungerford. It is very difficult to reach this venue on public transport.

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About the Tutors

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.