The Year Round Organic School Garden.

This course demonstrates how to plan and create an organic school garden. It shows how to develop various habitats and increase biodiversity in the school grounds.

We will visit an established school garden, and also audit, plan and design  a garden for a new location.We will look at the cross curricular potential that a school garden offers  and  how it  integrates with  SESE, SPHE, Art, Languages, History and Maths.

This is a fun, practical, hands-on course that includes. Numbers are limited to twenty places.

• Garden plan and design

• Seed sowing and plant care

• Soil care and, natural fertilisers

• Crop rotations,

• Pest and diseases control,

• Making raised beds

• Planting out

• Plant identification

This course will benefit any school wishing to attain their biodiversity green flag.

Booking: Clare Education Centre (065) 684 5500

www.clareed.ie

Venue: Irish Seedsavers Association, Capparoe, Scariff, Co. Clare

Tel: 061 921866/856

www.irishseedsavers.ie

Time: 9.30am – 1:30pm

Date: 1st-7^th July 2014 (Excluding Saturday & Sunday)

Fee: €80 (including delicious lunch)