MUSHROOM GROWING WITH BEA AND MARIO

 I went on an excellent course on Mushroom Growing at Balerno, near Edinburgh, run by brilliant mycologists, Bea and Mario in association with The Planetary Healing Centre. They have years and years of practical experience of growing mushrooms and also of the many other ways in which the kingdom of fungi can help us such as myco-remediation, carbon sequestration and soil regeneration.

Bea and Mario came up to Perth Community Farm to talk about putting on their courses with us, but we just don't have the resources to do that at the moment. So if you're interested in growing mushrooms - and finding out more about the whole fungal kingdom is surely one of the most important and useful things we can do - please get in touch with Bea and Mario via their site: MYCOBEE MUSHROOMS.

MORE COMPOSTING FUN...

 Our second COMPOST MAKING FOR BEGINNERS COURSE was great fun too...

It's really interesting to see how each group of course participants interacts and the sort of questions people ask. This one threw up loads of interesting connections - not suprising really, composting being such a core part of our gardens. You could think of your composter bay or bin as your garden's stomach in a way...

Anyway, please look on the Resources for Courses page on my blog for more about HOTBEDS, COMPOST FOR SEEDS and much more.

COMPOSTING FUN!

 OUR FIRST COMPOST MAKING COURSE AT PERTH COMMUNITY FARM

Who would have thought that compost making could be so much fun...? But that's just exactly what it was, thanks to having a brilliant bunch of gardeners on our first compost making course at the farm, all very enthusiastic and interested in all our gardening adventures as well compost making.

PARTNERSHIP WITH COUNCIL WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

In an interesting development for the farm, I set up and presented the course with lots of help and practical input from Yvonne Bell, Waste Minimisation Officer at Perth and Kinross Council. I hope we do more stuff like this together, I think there's enormous scope for local government to help people explore how to live more sustainably in all sorts of ways. Also, it makes the course much more interesting to have two presenters with their different styles and backgrounds.

We have another COMPOST MAKING COURSE coming up this Sunday and will definitely be putting these on regularly.

COMING SOON

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