Salad Growing for Food Growers

Salad leaves can be grown successfully all year round, in a wide range of environments. But there’s more to a salad than just lettuce. Join us for a day of exploration where we study and celebrate the many different wonderful salad leaves and flowers which make up our beloved Hawkwood mixed salad!

This workshop will cover the following:

• a look at the many different salad leaves and flowers which can be used in a mix, including foraged leaves, trees and shrubs!
• designing a recipe around flavours, textures, shapes and colours
• basic cultivation: seed starting, site/soil, tools and aftercare
• winter leaves
• harvesting techniques to prolong the supply

Run by Hawkwood salad grower Rod Sazio, this one-day workshop will include a salad harvest which we can enjoy at lunchtime as well as the opportunity for participants to take seedlings to grow-on at home.

Hot drinks will be provided and a lunch break will be scheduled into the day.  Please bring your own packed lunch.

COURSE FEES

There is a standard fee for each of our courses.

To support our vision to inspire everyone to grow, and learn we have developed an easy way to be able to offer discounted spaces to those who need them. Please take time to read the guidelines and consider whether you can pay a solidarity rate (standard fee plus 50%).

You may also feel that once you have read these guidelines that you could be eligible to pay a discounted rate (standard fee minus 50%). Please note there are limited spaces available at this rate.

Below is a short list of guidelines to help you make this decision of how much you can afford to pay:

Consider paying the solidarity rate (+50%) if you can tick at least one or more of these boxes:

□ You own the home you live in
□ Have access to savings and/or inherited money
□ Working part-time/not working is a choice (for example, have negotiated reducing hours to take this course or taking time out to consider a career change)
□ Have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education i.e. educated to degree level

Solidarity rates will offer someone support to take a course they may not otherwise be able to pay for.

Consider choosing for a discounted rate (-50%) if you:

□ Support children or other dependents on one income
□ Work part time/are on low income i.e. working less than 16 hours a week
□ You do unpaid care work
□ You do not qualify for state funds solely due to your immigration status