The Regenerative Garden: Making and Working with Compost
The Regenerative Garden: Making and Working with Compost
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Composting is a way for gardeners to treat the soil they work with well. The principles of composting are more straightforward than anticipated when approached with care.
In this session, you’ll learn how to recycle garden and home waste into a material that can improve soil quality, so that it can develop a rewarding foundation for the plants that we grow in it, and the people who enjoy and eat them!
We’ll explore different composting methods, including making ‘leaf mould’; working with worms; and how to make good quality, homemade compost using simple methods suited to most spaces.
Whether you have a garden, balcony, or window box, this session will help start your composting journey with the knowledge needed to create and sustain your own resource.
This is the 2nd session of the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.
Top Skills You’ll Gain:
Explore ways to start and manage your composting journey for healthier soil.
Understand the process of making nutrient-rich leaf mould to improve soil structure.
Learn how to work with worms effectively to produce high-quality compost.
Join us and start your journey to sustainable soil building!
The Regenerative Garden
Welcome to the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.
Over five engaging sessions, our gardening team will guide you through practical techniques, ecological insights, and seasonal inspirations to help you grow food and cultivate biodiversity in harmony with nature.
Step into our gardens to explore the deep connections between soil, plants, and ecosystems. We’ll share the knowledge we’ve gathered at OmVed—through tending the land, saving seeds, and working with nature—while creating space to learn from each other’s experiences.
Whether you join the full course or book for a single session, you'll gain valuable skills to build your own regenerative garden. Our garden and kitchen sessions are thoughtfully designed to complement each other through both topic and seasonality, yet each session also stands strong on its own.
The OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series is created and led by members of the OmVed Gardening team including Vicky Chown, Head of Urban Growing, John Gaffney, Landscape Gardener, Tej Rawal, Food Grower, Daniel Connor, Seed Saving Network Coordinator and Lyson Marchesault, Food Grower and Assistant Landscape Gardener.
About the hosts:
Tej Rawal has tended to OmVed’s kitchen garden for three years, and also looks after a nearby allotment.
Lyson Marchessault is a Gardener at OmVed Gardens and a French-Canadian artist based in London. Her practice involves ecology and regenerative art.
About OmVed Gardens:
OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.
As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.
We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.
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Subsidised Tickets:
We have a few reserved tickets at a subsidised rate. If this workshop is not monetarily accessible, please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com to avail yourself of a subsidised ticket rate. Subject to availability.
Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable, except in cases where a waiting list exists for the session. If the event is sold out, a refund may be considered if requested up to 10 days prior to the session date. Please write to us for any refund inquiries at events@omvedgardens.com.
Location
OmVed Gardens, N6 5JF