Posted: 8th December 2022
Brassicas are the biggest and most valuable crop family for winter sales. How can growers provide continuity in an uncertain climate? The summer heatwave and the mild autumn have played havoc with many brassica growers’ continuity plans. How can growers plan their cropping plans to be resilient? We are joined... Read More...
Posted: 15th November 2022
Recording made November 2022 This webinar looks at topics such as the challenges of growing at northerly latitudes, infrastructure, timing plantings, selecting crop varieties, maintaining variety in veg boxes and storing vegetables. It’s aimed at a Scottish CSA audience but may interest any market gardeners. We are very grateful to... Read More...
Posted: 4th November 2022
CSAs diversify their offering in many ways, varying routes for sales, but how do CSAs choose which are right for them? How do different types of enterprise work within a CSA model? In this webinar recording, we will hear from four farms that have diversified in various ways and the... Read More...
Posted: 29th October 2022
This webinar explores the complex art of designing rotations for polytunnels and greenhouses. Growing in tunnels and greenhouses agroecologically means embracing diversity, including plants to encourage predators and pollinators, as well as green manures for soil health. A huge range of crops can be grown under protection, which is great... Read More...
Posted: 25th October 2022
About this event Join Mandy Barber of Incredible Vegetables and Ryan Sandford-Blackburn of Earthed Up! to explore the potential of perennials. We will look at the benefits, which species may make sense, perennials for seed crops, integration into an annual layout and use at the edges. After watching this recording,... Read More...
Posted: 17th October 2022
Last few places – starts next week! The Art of Invitation explores creative ways of engaging communities in the ecological, cultural, and social challenges of our time. These workshops offer new, creative tools for change that can be used as resources for you and your projects, groups, communities, and organisations. ... Read More...
Posted: 12th October 2022
CSA growers work hard to grow food, but this isn’t always reflected in their wages. Perhaps there is another way of doing things? Enjoy and learn from this webinar recording. Food solidarity and access to food for all is something many CSAs and small-scale farms aspire to address. However, it’s... Read More...
Posted: 29th September 2022
Seed banks and seed libraries play an important role in both conserving our heritage and ensuring our future. With the huge decline in both our native flora and vegetable cultivars, as well as the reality of climate change, it is now more important than ever that we conserve and protect... Read More...
Posted: 1st September 2022
A resurgent interest in all things grain has presented opportunities for market gardeners to diversify their cropping and try something new. Many growers will be familiar with sowing grains as a green manure but taking a crop to full term is a different proposition. Tune in to hear a few... Read More...
Posted: 30th June 2022
This webinar set out to address how we can better incorporate green manures into organic no-dig or min-till vegetable systems. Green manures are a very important part of organic vegetable systems but often under-used in no-dig or minimum tillage situations. They can be perceived as difficult to handle and kill... Read More...
Posted: 16th June 2022
How to use green manures in no-dig or min-till growing systems Green manures are an important part of organic vegetable growing systems, However, they’re often under-used in no-dig or minimum tillage situations. They’re often seen as difficult to handle and kill (without glyphosate) so robbing growing space from cash crops. ... Read More...
Posted: 17th May 2022
Join Christian Keeve to learn more about the political ecologies, cooperative geographies, knowledge politics of seed keeping, and seed grower networks. This webinar is a partnership between the CSA Network UK, the Seed Sovereignty Programme run by the Gaia Foundation and the Organic Growers Alliance and forms part of a... Read More...
Posted: 29th April 2022
UK Fibre Industry Unpicked: Could You Grow Your Own Clothes? Landworkers’ Alliance webinar from April 27th 2022 focussing on UK fibre and textile industry. Hosted by Robyn Minogue, guest speakers Emma Hague, Rosie Bristow and Sofi Thanhauser. Read More...
Posted: 24th February 2022
Webinar on how to create your own peat-free growing media for plant-raising. As growers we need to move away from using peat for propagation, but buying in can be expensive and not always as reliable as it should be. An alternative is to make up our own mixes using ‘recipes.’... Read More...
Posted: 27th January 2022
For many of us, our connection to seeds runs much deeper than just the practicalities of food production. Our seeds represent hard work, the growing season to come, and belief that we can build a better future. The journeys seeds take and the challenges they face are reflections of our... Read More...
Posted: 25th November 2021
Nicky Scott, aka Dr Compost, talks about all things composting for small farms and market gardens in this masterclass webinar from the CSA Network UK. Get practical tips and learn the science behind the perfect heap in this video – part of the Farming the Future series. Read More...
Posted: 3rd November 2021
Hear all about growing field scale vegetables from some of the experts. This webinar debunks the myths of field-scale production and shows how it can be done regeneratively and agroecologically without huge investments. We discuss at rotation, technical issues of production, and machinery to support you in producing the staple... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved