Organic Gardening Classes now available in Omagh

Glenhordial Farm
is delighted to be able to offer two new organic gardening courses in 2010.

Course 1
Practical and comprehensive Introduction to Organic Gardening for vegetables and fruit (Sat morning course)

Course 2
Comprehensive Introduction (classroom based) to Organic Gardening for vegetables and fruit (Wed evening course)
If you are interested please contact me: marella.fyffe@googlemail.com or phone and book 00442882241973.

More about Course 1.

4 session workshops in organic gardening at Glenhordial Farm.(Sat morning)
This is a hands on practical 4 session course (each session will be three hours duration) of which over 50% will be outside in the gardens (weather allowing). The class is led by Marella Fyffe who has many years experience growing her own and is also a former lecturer at the Organic centre in Leitrim. Participants will receive excellent handouts on each topic.

Participants may attend a single day as a stand alone session or sign up for the four days.

Topics include
Design, Ground Preparation, Soil, Green Manures, Composting, Seed Sowing, Polytunnles, Rotation in the vegetable garden,Early planting, Tools, Potatoes, Companion planting, Forest gardening, Herbs and propagation, Filling the hungry gap, Pests and diseases. Participants will finish the course, filled with confidence and ready to start growing food in their own garden.

Dates :Sat Feb 6th , Sat 13th March, 27th March and Sat 10th April.
When : 10.00 -13.00 Tea/Coffee and home made scones provided on arrival bring own lunch

Cost : Full four day course paid in advance is £100.00 . Single sessions cost £30.00/day

If you are interested please contact me: marella.fyffe@googlemail.com or phone and book 00442882241973.

More about Course 2

Participants may attend a single day as a stand alone session or sign up for the 10 evenings..

10 classes organic gardening at Glenhordial Farm (Wed evening)
This is a hands on practical 10 session course (each session will be 1.5 hours duration) it will be class room based on a Wednesday evening. The class is led by Marella Fyffe who has many years experience growing her own and is also a former lecturer at the Organic centre in Leitrim. Participants will also receive excellent handouts on each topic. This is more or less the same as the 4 day course but as its earlier in the year and in the evening , it will not be possible to have outside hands on sessions. There will be some seed sowing and some growing experience in the polytunnle but minimal.
Participants may attend a single day as a stand alone session or sign up for the ten days.
Topics include
Design, Ground Preparation, Soil, Green Manures, Composting, Seed Sowing, Polytunnles, Rotation in the vegetable garden,Early planting, Tools, Potatoes, Companion planting, Forest gardening, Herbs and propagation, Filling the hungry gap, Pests and diseases. Participants will finish the course, filled with confidence and ready to start growing food in their own garden.

Dates :Wed 27th Jan , Wed 3rd Feb, Wed24th Feb and Wed 4th March,Wed 10th March,Wed 24th March.
When : 1900-2030.Tea/Coffee and home made scones provided on arrival .
Cost : Full four day course paid in advance is £100.00 . Single sessions cost £15.00/class
If you are interested please contact me:

marella.fyffe@googlemail.com or phone and book 00442882241973.

Glenhordial Farm and Permaculture

In August 2009 Marella attended a ten day permaculture design course in Cloghjordan in Tipperary. Using the the knowledge she gained here, and her own extensive horticultural organic experience and qualifications Glenhordial Farm just outside Omagh has embarked on an extensive retrofit of permaculture principles to all of its daily activities.
Marella along with her husband Billy ran a small back packing hostel at the farm for eighteen years .The hostel was closed at the end of October 2009 and the hostel building is now being used to roll out all sorts of organic gardening and sustainable lifestyle courses along with permaculture courses in the future.
Marella will be attending a Permaculture teachers course in Wales at the start of February and hopes to start projects for her diploma early in 2010.
Indeed the first permaculture project is already under way as they managed to plant over 25 native fruit trees in late November to start their new forest garden project.

Wishing for Spring

Relaxing by the fire in the sitting room looking out at the snow and wishing for Spring . Nothing to do except to browse through all the wonderful seed catalogues and order what I need for the new growing season.
Descriptions such as "Really Red Deer Tongue" which is a kind of open head lettuce or Minnesota midget melon makes me wonder what are people on when it comes to naming plants! Blue bananas is a type of winter squash whilst Precoca de Louviers is a spring cabbage. These varieties all come from The Real Seed Catalogue .This is a family concern that has collected , the best seeds from the best seeds over the years.All their varieties are open-pollinated (non-hybrid) so that means I can save the seed myself for the future from what I grow. You can get a catalogue here www.realseeds.co.uk

ABOUT GLENHORDIAL farm

Here on the farm we are on a learning journey as we move to a more sustainable way of life for us and our community. Our life here is an exploration into how we can retrofit the principles of permaculture to our daily lives ,simultaneously building resilience for our selves and our community whilst designing and implementing an energy descent pathway,suitable for family life in Northern Ireland.

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