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Practical Garden Activities
• Purely Practical Summer Pruning Fruit
• Seed Saving
• Seed Selection
• The Wonders of Compost
• Great Green Manures
• Extend Your Growing Season
• Natural Pest and Disease Control
“The project has focussed on originating
and delivering affordable, friendly short courses accessible to all. ”
“Reallygreatideas–thankyou! Hopeit runs for another year, learnt more than you can searching on the internet! ”
“ Very interesting and inspiring, will try some new crops this year. ”
Making the Best of Herbs
• Purely Practical Propagating Herbs
• All about Herbs
Birds and Bees in Your Garden
• Introduction to Beekeeping
• Attracting Beneficial Insects
• Beekeeping Intensive
• Beekeeping Taster Session
• Beginners Guide to Keeping Chickens
• Urban Chickens
Family Fun
• Keeping Happy Chickens and Children
• Grow Me Eat Me
From Wales to Cameroon
Keyhole Garden project shares experience and knowledge
This sustainable gardening method was originally developed by a humanitarian aid organisation
in Africa. Keyhole gardens hold moisture and nutrients due to compost in the centre of a round bed and the idea has spread throughout the world as it can be adapted for many climates.
Natalie Danford attended a GTF course on Keyhole Gardening, learning how to build and maintain a structure, with a view to sharing her practical experience with schoolchildren in the Kumbo region of Cameroon, where she works as a volunteer for three weeks each year.
Natalie organised a workshop on “Building a Keyhole Garden” at Oscar Wind Primary School, Kumbo, Cameroon on 7th March 2015. It was attended by 10 head teachers, a representative from the Ministry of Education, a journalist and Self Reliance Promoters NGO representatives. The aim was to demonstrate the structure of a KHG and discuss the types of locations, building materials and the maintenance of the gardens with the school children.
The school children made mud bricks at the school in wooden moulds which they dried in the sun.
The outline of the garden was constructed from a layer of bricks, a layer of rubble was laid inside the walls and a bamboo basket placed in the centre for the composting. The soil was added on top of the rubble and manure dug in near the top, and suitable material added to the basket. After leaving the garden to settle and once the rains arrived, the garden was ready for planting.
A hand out on setting up a keyhole garden was given to participants in the workshop and further copies were made available for other interested schools in the future.
This case study highlights the opportunities to share information across different continents and the benefits of gardening to society as a whole.
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