Sustainable Gardening “hands on” workshop – Part 2
The afternoon “hands-on” session spent in the garden – building beds from a lasagna mulch and creating compost bins from hay bales.
Sustainable Gardening “hands on” workshop – Part 1
A workshop of two halves that started with a morning of discussion about permaculture and what it is – outlining the principles for us creating self-maintaining gardens.
A Wood Chip Chipper’s Wood – A Main Ingredient for our Mulch
Before the Sustainable Gardening workshop, we needed to get materials together for our mulching demonstration. This included having to find a good-quality local resource for a plentiful supply of woodchip…
Why Mulch?
Mulch is any material that is spread or laid over the surface of the soil as a covering – but organic mulches specifically help to improve the soil’s fertility, as they decompose.
MK Soup Pitch
A fundraising pitch for a community garden shed – An ingredient of the October 2017 MK Soup