‘Charcoal burning in the Forest of Dean’ The speaker starts at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park in Prittlewell Chase and use the Fairfax Drive entrance. For a Google Map and Directions to the location; please follow this link. ADMISSION PRICE: Non-members £2.00 – everybody is welcome! EVENT CONTACT …
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‘A Farm for the Future’
Showing of the film ‘A Farm for the Future’ – wildlife film maker, Rebecca Hosking, investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. The film starts at 8.00pm. Download Poster Here VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea …
Never a Dull Moment
‘Never a Dull Moment’ a naturalist’s view of British wildlife; with Ross Gardner, a professional naturalist, currently working in environmental education. The speaker starts at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park in Prittlewell Chase and use the Fairfax Drive entrance. For a Google Map and Directions to the …
Dr. Keith Tyrell, Director of Pesticide Action Network UK
Dr. Keith Tyrell, Director of Pesticide Action Network UK Bee Declines and the Link with Pesticides: Factsheet download here. The speaker starts at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park in Prittlewell Chase and use the Fairfax Drive entrance. For a Google Map and Directions to the location; …
Green Manures
Dr Francis Rayns (Horticulture Research Manager at Garden Organic) will give a talk on green manures. These remain under utilised by organic growers even though they can bring many benefits – helping to reduce the leaching of nutrients, adding nitrogen from the air by fixation, raising levels of soil organic matter and assisting with the management of weeds, …
‘Sue Cushion, The Accidental Farmer at Boxes Farm, Battlesbridge’
‘Sue Cushion, The Accidental Farmer at Boxes Farm, Battlesbridge’ www.boxesfarm.co.uk The speaker starts at 8.00pm. Download Poster Here VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park in Prittlewell Chase and use the Fairfax Drive entrance. For a Google Map and Directions to the location; please follow this link. ADMISSION PRICE: Non-members …
‘Getting the Best from Potatoes’ & Christmas Social (Please bring something festive)
‘Getting the best from potatoes’ with SEEOG member Robert Wiseman, in readiness for our SE Essex Seed Potato Day event (poster here) in February. So what are first earlies, second earlies, early maincrop and late maincrop? What is ‘chitting’? The speaker starts at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park …
Nurturing Health
“Nurturing Health” project led by Milton Community Partnership – promoting the growing of fresh fruit and vegetables in the community, growing productive trees in community spaces in urban Southend, applying permaculture in practice, presented by Matt King, Chair of Milton Community Partnership www.topofthecrops.org.uk Download meeting poster here The speaker starts at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing …
“From Selection to Consumption – A Seeds’ Story” and SEEOG AGM
Andrew Henderson is an Organic Crop Specialist at Rijk Zwaan UK Ltd. He will include information about RZ/Tuckers Seeds, breeding, species available, sowing and seed storage. www.rijkzwaan.co.uk Download poster for this event The AGM is at 7.30pm followed by our speaker at 8.00pm. VENUE: Cheryl Centre, Growing Together Gardens, 47 Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea SS0 9AG Please park in …
From Gardener to Grower – the business of growing salad
Essex-born author Piper Terrett and her husband Douglas Smith began growing vegetables and keeping chickens in their back garden in Billericay in 2005. Doug had always been green-fingered and Piper became interested in home-grown food while writing the popular Frugal Life blog for MSN.co.uk and publishing her book The Frugal Life: How to spend less …