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Welcome to Garden Organic for Schools May eNewsletter. It has been
a frosty couple of weeks which hasn't helped crops recover after the very cold
winter. If you are still struggling with frosts
then our featured factsheet this month will be invaluable as you look to turn
your garden around. The summer events schedule has begun, we attended both the
Malvern show and the Real Food Festival. A link to the Organic Gardening
Catalogue for schools is also included at the bottom of the
newsletter.
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Featured Factsheet Frost & the
gardener
With the cold evenings we have been experiencing our
experts thought it would be useful to share some of the hints and tips we have
for helping your plants survive.
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Ryton Gardens
- Pride of the Midlands
Garden Organic is celebrating after BBC Gardeners' World readers
voted its flagship site the "Best Garden" in the Central region. So come and be
inspired!
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Real Food Festival goes Potty
Garden Organic took its One Pot Pledge
campaign to this years Real Food Festival at Earls Court. As well as celebs a
host of new pledgers will be growing something edible for the first
time.
View some images from the event
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Master
Gardeners - here to help
Garden Organic has trained their first 'Master
Gardeners' and already promoted grow your own to local communities with events,
talks, and articles, as well as offered 12 months support to households just
starting to grow.
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One Pot Pledge
The One Pot Pledge is an exciting new grow your own campaign from
leading gardening charity Garden Organic. Our aim is to get those who have never
grown anything before to give growing a go. |
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Chelsea Flower Show
Garden Organic will be back at the Chelsea
Flower Show for the first time in several years and has a great stand planned
for display. If you're attending too please make sure you come along and say
hello to us. |
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BBC Gardeners World Live
offer
We are delighted to offer you an exclusive
ticket offer on tickets for the BBC Gardeners' World Live Show. Just enter code
"GARDEN" when purchasing tickets to enjoy £2 per tickets off the retail
price.
Find out
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Damson Wood work to support local
schools
Damson Wood Infant School in Solihull have
been taking their Flagship School status to heart and have been working hard to
support neighbouring schools with the Food For Life Partnership
initiative.
Click here
to read more
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St Stephen's learn to Dig For
Victory
St Stephen's CE Junior School in
Twickenham, London, wanted to include a growing activity into their curriculum
plans, and Year 6 teachers tied it in with their History topic with great
success.
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Garden Organic Courses for schools
As part of the Food For Life Partnership, Garden Organic
offers a range of CPD opportunities aimed at those running food-growing projects
in schools. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, there is no charge for these
training events that take place in inspirational settings such as gardens,
wildlife centres and FFLP flagship schools.
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What's on... |
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National Sustainable Schools
Conference 2010
Friday4th June
This successful annual conference gives you
the chance to hear national speakers, network and share experience, access and
review new resources, and for you to plan your year ahead.
Event
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Organic gardening workshops for
teachers and school professionals
Thursday 17th
June
This training
event will be a practical, one day course based in the Kitchen Garden at the
Daylesford Organic Farmshop, Gloucestershire. Teachers will get some ideas on
where to start with an organic school garden.
Course
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Master Composter workshop for schools (Region:
South)
Friday 18th June
Waltham Place, Berkshire
This
training event will enable attendees to understand how the composting process is
closely related to the practical aspects of composting in schools.
Course
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Nemasys - Great news for gardeners, bad news for
pests
Nemasys "Grow Your Own" Pest Control is a unique mix of
different nematode species to target a broad range of pests. It has been
specifically researched to combat carrot root fly, cabbage root fly,
leatherjackets, cutworms, onion fly, ants, sciarid fly, caterpillars, gooseberry
sawfly, thrips, and codling moth. Please see our full description at The Organic
Gardening Catalogue website for full details of how and when to
apply.
Click here
to buy you Nemasys now
Click here
for the full Organic Gardening
Catalogue for Schools and to browse all available
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Jobs in your garden this
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