Planning Your 2025 Fruit and Vegetable Garden with Klaus Laitenberger

Afternoon Cookery Classes begin at 2PM, however please try to be at cookery school for 1:45PM.

Guests will get a copy of all recipes and tastings of all dishes at the end of the demonstration. Please note you will be joining our main student body for this demonstration.

Details of Recipes to be demonstrated are published approximately 2 weeks in Advance.

Delivered by Klaus Laitenberger, a renowned organic grower and educator as well as author of four gardening books: ‘The Self-Sufficient Garden’, ‘Vegetables for the Irish Garden’, ‘Fruit and Vegetables for the Polytunnel and Greenhouse’ and ‘A Vegetable Grower’s Handbook’, this full day course is structured for anyone who plans to start, restart or maintain a food garden.

This course will cover the basics of planning a food growing space no matter what size - from ground preparation to tool selection, knowing not just which fruit and vegetable to grow but where, when and what quantities, crop rotation and how to design your space to make the most out of the conditions and resources available to you.

What You’ll Learn:

How to design your growing space
How to plan your growing schedule from sowing to harvesting
Tool Selection
Growing Food in Raised Beds, Glasshouses and Polytunnels
Seed Selection
Soil Health and Ground Preparation

Course Elements:

Indoor and Outdoor Classroom Learning
A tour of the organic farm, gardens and greenhouses
Practical session on ground preparation
Q&A sessions throughout the day as we review each session and put theory into practice

Good to Know:

As we’ll spend time walking and learning around the farm please bring suitable clothing and footwear - and allow for changeable weather!
Refreshments and Lunch included; eat alongside our students, cookery school teachers, farm staff, gardeners and visiting experts
Tea and Coffee with whatever’s fresh out of the oven will be served from 9am so please arrive early to sign in, meet other students and get ready for a busy day of hands on learning
The course is held at Ballymaloe Cookery School’s Organic Farm and Gardens in Shanagarry, Co. Cork P25 R274

The prestigious Ballymaloe 12 WeekCertificate Course is run three times a year, with courses beginning in January,April or May, and September.

The course is aimed at anyone with a passionate interest in food. Many of our students use the course as a springboard to become a professional chef; others use it to equip themselves with a marketable skill.

Others still take the course simply to maximize the pleasure they get from cooking at home.

Students develop a deep and detailed understanding of food and how it is produced. The emphasis is on recognising the best ingredients and knowing how to showcase them.

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