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June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

Reserve your place at the National Masters Conference 2012 at Ryton Gardens. We’re inviting volunteers from across the country to share top-tips for supporting communities to grow their own food and make lovely compost. View the Masters Conference flyer (links opens PDF) Read about the National Masters Conference 2011 NEW for Warwickshire Master Gardeners Please [...]

May: grow your own tips

May: grow your own tips

Crops are confused this month. We’ve had a mild winter, sunny March, and wet April so far. But May is the time for catching up with sowing seeds and planting out your favourite fruit and veg. Remember there’s still time to prepare quick growing harvest for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. [...]

Warwickshire Master Gardeners support London 2012 launch

Warwickshire Master Gardeners support London 2012 launch

Garden Organic’s Ryton Gardens hosted London 2012’s ‘Local Leader’ West Midlands launch on the 3rd April 2012 with our Warwickshire Master Gardeners and Master Composters. Our volunteers joined fellow community champions who have signed up free as Local Leaders to help people and communities create their own Game celebrations. Top of the list is ‘Garden [...]

Household celebration!

Household celebration!

Last Saturday saw an exciting get together of Master Gardeners and some of the households that they support. It was a glorious day for relaxing in the gardens here at Ryton! Families from across the county came to enjoy a delicious lunch, supplied by Change Kitchen. There were sowing and potting activities in the Get [...]

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

Garden Organic is inviting our network of Warwickshire Master Gardeners and local food growers to champion the Big Jubilee Lunch. As the UK’s leading organic growing charity, we use innovation and inspiration to get more people growing in the most sustainable way. This fourth annual Big Lunch, an initiative by the Eden Project, proudly supports [...]

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Two Pea or not Two Pea?

Two Pea or not Two Pea?Not everyone is a fan of blousy scented or indeed colourful flowers. But how can you resist the lure and temptation of the beautiful Sweet Pea family? I have been privilaged enough to be introduced to the Sweet Pea family by winning some seeds in a competition that I entered and forgot about a couple [...]

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Oaks Barn Farm at the Malvern Spring Show

Events

May 26th: Schools Master Gardener training

May 26th: Schools Master Gardener trainingDue to popular demand, we’re delighted to invite Warwickshire Master Gardeners to another specialist training day to help people grow in schools. From every group of Master Gardeners, several volunteers want to help pupils, parents, teachers, and the wider community grow their own food in school and at home. This is great! So we’ve invited [...]

Jun 2nd: BOOK NOW! Free workshop on growing exotic crops!

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

News

Warwickshire Master Gardeners support London 2012 launch

Warwickshire Master Gardeners support London 2012 launchGarden Organic’s Ryton Gardens hosted London 2012’s ‘Local Leader’ West Midlands launch on the 3rd April 2012 with our Warwickshire Master Gardeners and Master Composters. Our volunteers joined fellow community champions who have signed up free as Local Leaders to help people and communities create their own Game celebrations. Top of the list is ‘Garden [...]

Household celebration!

Volunteers excel at national Edible Garden Show

Case Studies

Pilot research hints at impact of Master Gardeners

Pilot research hints at impact of Master GardenersEarly reports from our pilot questionnaire are hinting at interesting results to come…. We wrote to a sample of our mentored household in August 2010 to trial our new questionnaires before launching this autumn. It’s part of our partnership with Coventry University to discover the health, environmental and social impact of the Master Gardener Programme. [...]

Mentoring young families

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