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Learn to Eat the Veg Patch with Adam Crofts

Learn to Eat the Veg Patch with Adam Crofts

£45.00 Inclusive

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Overview

At River Cottage, we believe that growing your own vegetables can truly transform your life. In a world dominated by intensive farming and harmful pesticides, it’s more important than ever to embrace locally grown, sustainable food systems.

In this course, you’ll dive into everything from propagation and tools to choosing the best vegetable varieties and nurturing them. You’ll build a solid foundation of organic growing skills and techniques, empowering you to cultivate your own patch of produce.

Once you’ve perfected your growing techniques, Gelf Alderson will guide you in taking your harvest from plot to plate. Using your home-grown vegetables, you’ll discover a range of cooking skills and techniques that will help you get the most from every crop.

Highlights

  • Learn how to propagate seeds and plan your vegetable garden
  • Discover which varieties of vegetables are best to grow
  • Make your own natural fertiliser from kitchen scraps
  • Create delicious River Cottage recipes using the fruits, vegetables, and herbs you grow
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Overview

At River Cottage, we believe that growing your own vegetables can truly transform your life. In a world dominated by intensive farming and harmful pesticides, it’s more important than ever to embrace locally grown, sustainable food systems.

In this course, you’ll dive into everything from propagation and tools to choosing the best vegetable varieties and nurturing them. You’ll build a solid foundation of organic growing skills and techniques, empowering you to cultivate your own patch of produce.

Once you’ve perfected your growing techniques, Gelf Alderson will guide you in taking your harvest from plot to plate. Using your home-grown vegetables, you’ll discover a range of cooking skills and techniques that will help you get the most from every crop.

Highlights

  • Learn how to propagate seeds and plan your vegetable garden
  • Discover which varieties of vegetables are best to grow
  • Make your own natural fertiliser from kitchen scraps
  • Create delicious River Cottage recipes using the fruits, vegetables, and herbs you grow
Can’t find the right date? Click here to receive an alert
when new dates are released for this event.

Reviews (4)

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  1. Diana

    “Our chef teacher was enthusiastic, friendly and very helpful and informed. I love cooking and I really enjoyed myself. However long you’ve been cooking you can always learn new things and the dishes we made were all delicious.”

  2. Jeanette

    Great food and all fresh and local, fabulous staff, we picked up plenty of tips

  3. Zoe

    Well organised, relaxed, great environment to learn – I enjoyed the course and it was inspiring too!

  4. George

    Brilliant chef for the day, it was amazing thankyou, and really appreciate the hard work and effort that must go on behind the scenes everyday to organise all you do, as well as to do the day itself thankyou.