Grow Your Own Veg + Seed Saving -Organic / No-Dig/Regenerative/Permaculture

Grow Your Own Veg + Seed Saving — a practical, confidence-building day at Grassroots Garden CIC (Redruth).

This workshop is for anyone who wants to grow their own food — whether you’re starting from scratch or you’ve tried before and want a clearer, simpler approach.

You’ll learn on a real working site: Grassroots Garden CIC is 2.5 acres, with around 1 acre in market garden production,3 polytunnels, wildlife-friendly plantings, and the early stages of a food forest. We’ll use the central polytunnel as a classroom and undercover space, and move between indoor/outdoor practical sessions depending on the weather and topic.

I’m Dan — Permaculture Design Certificate + Level 4 qualified in Regenerative Agriculture — and I grow a wide mix of crops here in Cornwall. Alongside veg growing for dozens of weekly veg bags for local households, I focus on seed saving and diverse plant populations for resilience and local adaptation.

We’ll start with a quick check-in on everyone’s space, goals and challenges, then steer examples, demos and Q&A towards what’s most useful for the group. Numbers are capped so everyone gets proper attention.

• Planning your space (garden, allotment, raised beds, greenhouse/polytunnel, balcony, pots)
• Soil health made simple: compost, mulches, feeding the soil (including no-dig options)
• Seed sowing + propagation: germination, potting on, hardening off
• Bed prep + planting: spacing, timing, and aftercare
• Succession sowing + simple rotations (so harvests keep coming)
• Pests & problems: prevention-first, practical organic approaches
• Seed saving basics: easy wins, selection, drying + storage
• Resilient diversity: why mixed genetics matter and how to start small
• A tour of different growing “toolkits” (including a simple intro to Korean Natural Farming-inspired ideas) so you can experiment with confidence

• Lunch included: veg stew + bread
• Tea/coffee + refreshments
• Starter plants to take home (examples may include tomatoes, cucumbers, salads, kale, chard, beetroot, turnips, onions — depends what’s ready)
• Seeds for follow-on sowings
• Free apple tree (one per ticket/household, while stocks last)
• Printed take-home pack (sowing calendar, bed plan template, compost cheat sheet, seed saving notes)
• £5 donation included to support Incredible Edible Redruth

Choose what fits your income:

• £30 — lower income
• £45 — standard
• £60 — supporter (helps subsidise others)
  (Each adult ticket includes the £5 donation.)

Kids: supervised children welcome — £10 child ticket to cover lunch.

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