Learning to Grow Food Alongside a Full-time Job (Bees to a Flower) with Jess Gough

A Day of Learning how to plant your own food, while maintaining a full life with Jess Gough. 

During our time together we will learn:

• How to set up a new growing space
• How to plan for the growing year ahead
• How to sow seeds & care for plants
• Companion planting
• How to manage pest levels
• How to Harvest and Preserve Harvests
• Aspects of fermentation
• Learn about how the ducks, and chickens contribute to the garden
   

About Jess Gough:
Jess started an Instagram account called @happy_smallholding with the aim of helping people to grow food. She places a strong emphasis on gardening organically, showing people how to promote biodiversity on the vegetable patch to foster resilience and productivity.  Jess grows almost all her own vegetables on her smallholding in Somerset. Motivated by the hugely positive impact gardening has had on her own life, Jess is on a mission to inspire & help others to grow. She is passionate about removing barriers to growing food, especially time, space, confidence, and money.

A bit about Bees to a Flower
Bees to a Flower is a Primal Gathering initiative that encourages people, past participants, their friends and the extended community to act as bee’s to a flower to their local community ‘flower’ projects. Actively pollinating the wider ecosystem with the support they need while learning new and empowering skills.  Join our newsletter here.