Description
The Year Round Organic School Garden For Wildlife And Wellbeing – Summer Course 2022
Monday, 4 July – Friday, 8 July 2022 – 9.30am – 2pm
Please note bookings are going through Clare Education Centre. To book please visit
https://clareed.ie/cpd-courses/summer-courses/2517-the-year-round-organic-school-garden-for-wildlife-and-wellbeing-seed-savers-summer-course-2022.html
This course demonstrates how to audit, plan, design and create an organic school garden.
We will identify and show how to develop various beneficial habitats to increase the biodiversity in the school grounds and explore 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:
Garden plan and design for biodiversity
Seed sowing and plant care
Soil care and natural fertilisers
Crop rotation
Seed saving
Beneficial habitats and plants for pollinators
Rewilding for pollinators
Native flora and fauna identification
How to record the biodiversity in the school grounds
Citizen science for schools
Forest School ethos and activities
Wellbeing in the garden
This course will benefit any school wishing to attain their Biodiversity green flag and the Global
Citizenship Food and Biodiversity green flag.
Course cost is €50
Please note bookings are going through Clare Education Centre. To book please visit
https://clareed.ie/cpd-courses/summer-courses/2517-the-year-round-organic-school-garden-for-wildlife-and-wellbeing-seed-savers-summer-course-2022.html
