About this experience
Killruddery Member Ticket: €120
Standard Ticket: €132
Saturday 12th of September
Time: 10am - 4pm
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Grow and pick daily vegetables for your home. In this workshop you will gain expert advise about how to grow your own food drawn from our experience of growing and harvesting food at Killruddery.
Learn how to create kitchen garden beds that produce most of the year, with practical guidance on everything from seed sowing and propagation to soil preparation, pest management and succession planting. We'll cover the most productive varieties and a few special varieties as well as the techniques that help maximise growth in any space, large or small.
See how we grow in our garden and learn valuable tips to grow and harvest, for homegrown abundance, all year round.
- This course is taught by Pat Keady
- It is a lecture with slides format and practical demos
- It is held in Killruddery Flowers Studio and in our Kitchen Garden
- The day lasts from 10am - 4pm including tea/coffee on arrival and a long table lunch in our Award Winning Grain Store restaurant
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
- Those interested in starting to grow their own vegetables.
- Those who wish to gain further knowledge on sowing seeds, fertility and germination.
ABOUT OUR KITCHEN GARDEN
In 2009 we began to awake the sleeping Walled Garden which had lain dormant since the late seventies, apart from a producing Apple Orchard and a few hidden vines. As we developed our kitchen culture, we began to garden vegetables once again. We now have a productive Kitchen Garden and an additional farm field and at the height of summer 95% of the vegetables used in our Award Winning restaurant and Farm Shop are grown in our Gardens by Pat and the garden team. We are prolific, we do this using organic principles.
ABOUT PAT KEADY
Pat grew up surrounded and immersed in nature not knowing the meaning of the word biodiversity but piecing together the web of life bit by bit, this early involvement shaped him as a person who understands the need to protect and promote nature in everything we do. This is a major part of why Pat became a grower,a journey that brought him to Cork to study sustainable horticulture, then on to run his own market garden in Connemara and now here in Killruddery growing chemical free vegetables. He is constantly trying to improve and learn new methods to grow healthy nutritious veg on a large scale, while protecting and promoting nature.
FAQ:
- This workshop will take place from 10.00 - 16.00.
- All materials are supplied.
- Lunch is provided.
- Please wear warm thick soled shoes, and dress to suit the days weather.
- Please allow yourself plenty of time to get here, park in our main customer car park and follow signs to Killruddery Flower Studio
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