4th + 5th August, 2021
Over 2 days, learn what is takes to set up, maintain
+ advance a profitable market garden from scratch.
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Nestled in a sheltered valley, Roebuck Farm has become an international beacon modelling the alliance between sustainable, traditional growing principles and modern innovations. As a thriving market garden and restoration grazing farm, we focus on growing + locally direct marketing our own produce and regenerating pasture diversity with stock management .
Over the two days of this workshop Jodi Roebuck will share with you all that has been involved in establishing his market garden and how using lean principles, he has doubled the turnover, in the same area in 12mths. We teach these principles through highly interactive on-farm activities based around our agrarian & market garden production cycles.
The practical will cover the building blocks for developing a site including aspect, planning + design, right through to implementation including bed preparation options, innovative hand held tools, crop choices, propagation, harvesting and multiple market streams.
Over the two days of this workshop Jodi Roebuck will share with you all that has been involved in establishing his market garden and how using lean principles, he has doubled the turnover, in the same area in 12mths. We teach these principles through highly interactive on-farm activities based around our agrarian & market garden production cycles.
The practical will cover the building blocks for developing a site including aspect, planning + design, right through to implementation including bed preparation options, innovative hand held tools, crop choices, propagation, harvesting and multiple market streams.
Covering:
Lean Principles
What to look for in a site
Planning + design
Bed preparation
Irrigation systems
Compost
Glasshouse options
Propagation options
Harvesting techniques
Washroom design
Washing your produce
Post harvest systems for washing, drying, bagging + chilling greens
Washing + bunching root vegetables,
Growing micro greens
Seeding with the Earthway, Jang + SixRow Seeder
Flame weeder,
Using tarpaulins
Stale seed bedding
Innovative tools
Cloches for winter production + preventing insect damage
Market Streams
Developing Growth
Multiple Outlets
Our list of resources including gardens + farms to follow,
seed companies we deal with, tool companies we love,
books + podcasts.
This workshop is fully catered.
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Our workshops run from 9am-5pm
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