The Bath Gardening School Goes Live!

High excitement at the Orchard Studio with the announcement of our new gardening school website going live.

After months of hard work and a lot of emailing and changing things and testing the site and at the same time keeping up with day jobs, it has finally happened.

I wanted to get the gardening school going some years ago but finding the right time when things were more quiet proved impossible, until the end of last summer when I decided it was now or never.

Twitter proved to be an amazing way of finding great people to teach as well as new contacts. The obvious place to hold the courses was at my beloved Botanical Gardens and I was lucky that the council agreed to us using the facilities. I thought long and hard about the kinds of subjects I would want to learn and talked to a lot of people about what they wanted. The result being the current schedule of courses.

I wanted the day to be good fun and for people to be really entertained and informed and fed lots of cake and given a good lunch. 

We are very lucky to have Glenn Humphries, the Curator of Bath Parks coming to give the first guided tour of the gardens. Glenn has many years of experience and knowledge of the gardens and will be talking us through the many amazing trees and planting.

James Alexander-Sinclair from Blackpitts is taking the first course date and I'm reliably informed that he is very good value and extremely entertaining. No pressure on him then!

www.thebathgardeningschool.com

 

Comments

[Karen - An Artists Garden]

Congratulations on the gardening school "going live" on the web - the site looks very appealing.

What fun to have James taking the first course - that will get you off to a lively start!
K

[Ingrid - London UK]

Hi Emma,
Good luck with your new project. Sounds very exciting!
James is never boring!
Have a lovely weekend.
Ingrid xx

[Kori Bubnack]

Hi Emma,

I would love to talk to you about an issue that I feel is a hot topic in environmental news. I have written an article that I think your readers would be interested in seeing on your blog.

I'm looking to promote that idea that by encouraging grocery shoppers to branch out from their usual selections and to join the local food movement, they can help create a more sustainable agricultural system.

[Chesters Grove]

Good luck with the Gardening School, sounds a great idea. Really pleased to have found your blog. I'm adding you to my own blog roll, so I can keep visiting.

Tony
http://chestersgrove.blogspot.com/

[Michele]

How's it all going my old mate..?
Mr M looking forward to buzzing with the bees in May.

Mx