Monday, 11 May, 2020
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Join Sow the City for a series of weekly webinars
- 15th May Gardening and Wildlife with Kids. It’s May and there’s still plenty of time to get growing veggies. Stuart and Emily talk through how to get growing at home with kids, as well as lots of nature, wildlife and Forest School activities. This webinar is perfect for Covid home schoolers looking for activities for their little ones.
- 22nd May Introduction to Beekeeping. Paul from Abermarle Allotments will cover the fascinating world of beekeeping including types of beehive, how bee colonies work, and some of the things to look out if you are interested in starting to keep bees.
- 29th May Setting up a Market Garden. Plattfields Market Garden and Manchester Urban Diggers has transformed a formerly abandoned bowling green into a productive market garden for growing and selling fruit and vegetables. Find out about their journey including what they’ve learnt and how this could be replicated elsewhere.
- 5th June Urban Trees - Find out about our urban trees including the benefits of urban trees, collecting seeds, and planting out young trees. Paul will provide advice which trees are best suited to urban planting and the role that trees play in urban environments.
- 12th June Compost and Vermiculture - Join Klaudia from Plattfields Market Garden and learn how to make your own beautiful, dark, rich, crumbly compost and all about vermiculture, using worms to recycle food scraps and garden waste into nutrient rich black soil in your garden and inside your house!
- 19th June Growing Mushrooms – A webinar with Jonathon Curry from MSP and Jon from Sow the City. Learn about growing fungi, suitable species and how to grow oyster mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. Discover and share tips for setting up a DIY mushroom cultivation space at home and how to make use of your lovely homegrown fungi!
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