Courses in May at The Hollies

Courses in May at The Hollies:
for more info and for bookings please visit
 
www.theholliesonline.com or ring 023 8847001

Email: info@theholliesonline.com

Wild Food Foraging

9 May 2010
9.30 am – 5 pm
This course is specifically open to families. It is also mainly
outdoors. If the weather forecast is particularly wet for the day we'll
postpone it and arrange an alternative day.
If you bring children you will be responsible for them. For collecting
seaweed we'll be walking between rocks at low tide. This may influence
your decision on the age of children you feel confident to bring.
Booking is essential, as we need to know how many people come.
We'll meet at Long Strand near Rathbarry (on the cliff side) and
collect a variety of edible seaweed and other seaside plants. After
this we'll drive to The Hollies and visit two other places where we'll
collect different plants. This will ensure that you'll get to know
plants from a variety of habitats.
In this course you'll learn to identify many edible plants visible in
this season, how to prepare and eat them. At the same time we'll point
out which plants are poisonous.
You'll also learn about some medicinal uses.
Lunch is included in the course fee. In fact, you'll be part of
preparing it by using the plants we collect.
We'll also show you how to use specific plant identification books in
order to deepen your learning.
This course will inspire you to continue your path of food foraging.
Course fee: generally € 60 per adult, teenagers € 20, children under 13
free…if in doubt talk to us

Growing Food in a Polytunnel

A 1/2 day course with Selvi Iyilikci and John Conway.

Saturday,15th May 9.30 am – 1.30 pm

Cost: €40

Growing food indoors in a green house or polytunnel brings an exciting
addition to your garden. You can enjoy vegetables throughout the year:
a variety of tender crops in summertime, delicious greens, herbs and
lettuces in wintertime.

 We will look at how to put up a polytunnel,different ways of
'protected' cropping,seed propagation and successional sowing which
enables you to continuously harvest and abundance of vegetables
throughout the year.

Selvi and John have been building up a successful market garden over
the past few years, are selling on farmers markets and are running a
veggie box scheme.