Book me to give a talk or run a workshop

Talks I give

Permaculture Gardening with nature

Polyculture garden design
Planning your growing year
Growing microgreens for health
Unusual edible perennials – top twenty to grow
Autumn salads to give greens through the winter
Natural fertilisers to maximise yield
Understanding the soil-food-web
Wildlife

All about bats
All about bees and other pollinators
Creating insect habitats including hover-fly lagoons, earwig hotels, bee hotels
Pond design, renovation and assessment including pond dipping
Designing planting plans to provide year-round nectar and pollen
All about eels: lifecycle and history of eels
Composting

Wormeries
Bokashi, composting
Hot and cold and leaf mould composting
Compost toilets and humanure composting
Composting creatures
Designing a composting system
Water-saving systems

Wicking beds
Water-saving irrigation systems
Automatic-watering systems
Collecting rainwater
Seeds

How to plant seeds
Growing microgreens
Making clay seed jars
Living well in a tiny space

Designing an award-winning balcony oasis
Living well on a narrowboat
Designing tiny space living

Traditional craft workshops

Natural dye experience

Learn about natural dyes: this workshop shows people how to prepare material for dyeing and how to use plant dyes to dye a silk scarf which they can take away with them.
Timing: 1 - 5 hours
Ages: suitable for all ages from 5yrs
All about wool and felt

This workshop explains the unique properties of wool that means you can create felt. It then goes through the process of felting by creating a felt pouch or bowl. Participants take away a felt pouch or bowl that they’ve made.
Timing: 1 - 5 hours
Suitable for all ages from 8yrs
Dyeing with Woad for blue

Learn about the traditional source of blue dye: woad. The workshop will go through how to set up a woad dye pot and participants will dye a silk scarf with woad.
Timing: 3-5 hours
Ages: suitable for all ages from 8yrs

Permaculture gardening workshops

Permaculture polyculture design

This workshop explains how to design a permaculture polyculture design for your edible garden. It goes through how to mimic natural ecosystems through your choice of plants.
Timing: 1 - 3 hours
Suitable for adults
Saving water in your garden

Learn about how to save and store water in your garden including how you calculate how much water your garden needs and how much you can store. The session will also go through automatic watering systems (soaker hose irrigation and wicking reservoirs) that reduce water loss by up to 80%.
Timing: 1 - 3 hours
Suitable for adults
All about the soil-food-web

Soil is the key to life and this workshop will explain who lives in the soil and their symbiotic relationship with the plants we grow. It will outline techniques to support and benefit the creatures in the soil to maximise plant fertility.
Timing: 3-5 hours
Suitable for adults