Sustainable Yatton: Grow Your Own Food

This event is aimed at people who are interested in sustainable lifestyles, growing fruit and vegetables and living more in harmony within our landscape in Yatton. This will be a chance to hear from people with different experiences of growing food, including in small gardens and on allotments. Find out more about natural beekeeping, keeping chickens, ducks and other poultry. Learn how to weave willow and make a willow flower for your garden. At the end there will a chance to ask questions of the panel.

The workshops will be led by:

Claire Kinsella. Claire is a local basketmaker who grows much of her own willow as well as fruit and vegetables. She loves to teach others to enjoy basketry, and sells her baskets at local craft fairs and to individuals.

Sal Pearson. Sal is a keen gardener and provides a beautiful garden for bees to live in. She provides non-conventional homes including tree trunks for honey bees to live in. She is a great defender and promoter of all our other bees.

Juley Howard. Juley has a smallholding in Yatton where she keeps sheep, pigs, poultry and grows vegetables. She also has a tiny back garden with almost no soil which she has organised to provide fruit and herbs.

Luiza Ciobanu. Luiza grew up with her grandparents on a small self sufficient farm in a traditional Romanian village. Her grandmother tought her how to live off the land growing and foraging. With her partner,Luiza has two allotments where they grow fruits and vegetables enjoying cooking and preserving their own food.Luiza will be speaking about her experience on the allotment and the impact it's having on her family.

Kate Eastment. Kate runs the local Master Composting Scheme and will be talking about composting, how to maximise your compost and soil health.

Richard Croucher. Richard grew up on a farm in Kent with his father, who was the best vegetable grower he has known, growing food to feed his family. He moved to Yatton and where he has had an allotment for maybe 15 years. He has adapted what he knows to suit the different conditions here.

Jono Startup. Jono is an RHS qualified gardener and has NPTC Level 3 in Forestry and Arboriculture. He runs a gardening business locally and has an allotment.

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The entry fee for the event will cover the cost of hiring the hall, paying some workshop costs, for refreshments and insurance for the event. If there is any money left over I will either keep it for another event in the autumn or give it to Yatton PACT. It also includes the Eventbrite fee

Please book your ticket @ £6.50, then choose the workshops you would like to attend. I am doing my best with Eventbrite's ticketing system! Remember that the willow weaving is a double workshop so book that one session.

This event is aimed at adults, or young people over the age of 16. Children are not banned, but they might get bored.

Info: 1. Willow weaving: learn the basics of weaving with willow by making a decorative willow flower. 2. Growing Fruit and Vegetables: Soil health, composting, growing food and food preservation. 3. Keeping Chickens: learn about the needs of chickens and other poultry.

Info: 1. Willow weaving continued. 4. Growing Fruit and Vegetables: including propagating and pruning fruit trees. 5. Natural Beekeeping: the benefits of bees in the garden.

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