Workshop: Advanced Food Growing
This food growing workshop is designed for growers and gardeners who feel comfortable with the basics and are ready to deepen their practice through ecological design principles. We'll explore how to create and care for resilient, productive, and beautiful food gardens that work with natural processes, building biodiversity, and supporting wildlife at the same time as growing delicious edible crops.
The workshop will include:
Successional Growing: Planning continuous harvests through strategic timing and plant selection for year-round productivity
Intercropping Systems: Companion planting and designing edible plant guilds for mutual benefit, including food forest gardening
‘Edimentals’ and perennial vegetables: Selecting and establishing productive ornamental-edibles and perennial vegetables to create beautiful, abundant landscapes
Wildlife-Focused and regenerative methods: Focusing on planting with benefits to wildlife as well as integrating wildlife habitats and composting systems to suit your food growing spaces
This workshop challenges traditional horticultural conventions, such as the separation between ornamental and edible gardening, empowering you to transform your growing space into a thriving ecosystem that serves harvest, habitat, and beauty in equal measure.
Meet Jack (he/him)
Jack is a Garden Education Officer at Walworth Garden, teaching students on our Level 2 Practical Horticulture Skills Diploma course. He lives in South London and explores building complex ecosystems through experimental planting and habitat creation to benefit people and wildlife.
Price: £85
Note for Southwark residents: Looking to book a free place? Unfortunately, our limited quota of free places for the 2025-26 academic year have now been claimed. We will be releasing a refreshed number of free places (along with a new calendar of workshops) in Autumn 2026, so please check back then. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media, at the bottom of this page, to be notified.