Market Gardening Essentials

This event is suitable for people who are interested in starting up a market gardening business, as well as those who already have a market garden, smallholding, or croft. There will be a good mixture of theoretical and practical sessions, with a tasty local lunch included.

Audrey Litterick from Earthcare Technical has over 20 years experience as a crop and environmental scientist. She has held senior research posts at both Aberdeen University and SAC, where she worked in sustainable and organic crop production, crop nutrition and soil management. During the past 10 years she has increasingly specialised in fertilisers, composting and the use of composts, digestates and other organic materials in agriculture, horticulture, landscaping and land restoration.

Tomnah'a is an integrated Market Garden that started in 2016, born from a shared desire to create a beautiful, bountiful place in which to work, live and share. Tomnah’a aim to consistently grow delicious, fresh and vibrant produce; providing for the local community through their seasonal vegetable box scheme, breathtaking cut flowers, eggs from woodland free-ranging hens, soft fruit and apples. By enriching and regenerating soil fertility they work in partnership with nature using wildlife-friendly growing methods to increase biodiversity and sustainable long-term productivity.

For further information please visit the Scottish Soil Association website.