Make 2025 your green-fingered year with a new Ulverston-based collab!
Maybe you want to feed your family with easy home-grown veg, grow gorgeous cut flowers or make a wildlife haven beside your backdoor.

However you want to garden, learn hands-on in this new joint venture between Ford Park and the established Lowick-based gardening school at community pub The Farmer’s Arms, where local organisation Grizedale Arts has been teaching all sorts of people how to grow in local conditions for the last 5 years.

Across two 9 week terms in Ford Park’s gorgeous Walled Garden, expert teacher Hazel Sharples will guide participants through seasonal tasks on flowers, vegetables, fruit, and much much more. Responding to what happens week by week, you will cover all the basics of gardening in just a couple of hours a week. And you’ll be contributing to keeping Ford Park wonderful too.

With places restricted to twelve, you’ll get practical guidance in easy bite-size chunks, and plenty of time to ask questions every week. Beginners are especially welcome. Tools and all the materials you’ll need are supplied.

• Max. group size of 12

• Easy to access location

• Afterwork hours: Wednesdays 5.30pm-7.30pm

• 2 x 9 week terms (School & Bank Holidays off)

• All tools, seeds, compost, plants provided

• £199 per person, per term.

• Up to 3 unwaged places at £120

• Over 16’s only

• Parking available (charges apply)

Schedule

Wednesdays 5.30pm – 7.30pm

Term 1:

April 2nd, 9th, 23rd & 30th
May 7th, 14th & 21st June 4th, 11th,

Term 2:

June 18th, 25th

July 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd

No August sessions

Sept, 3rd, 10th & 17th

Thinking of gifting a place on our courses for someone special this Christmas? Our new Gift Certificates are now available to purchase!

Course Content

Spring: Soil & How to Make the Most of It, Introduction to Tools, Seed Sowing Outside & Under Cover, Easy & Colourful Borders, Planting for Nature

Summer: Delicious Edibles in the Greenhouse & Outside, Colourful & Productive Pots & Containers, Making More Plants from Cuttings, Caring for Fruit trees & Bushes, Easy Organic Pest & Disease Control,

Autumn: Keeping the Garden Colourful Year Round, Edibles Galore, Harvest Supper End of School Celebration (Sept 17th)