unusual herbs + edible plants + green consultancy + advice + sustainable gardening workshops + foraging walks + talks

Appletreeman and Plants with Purpose specialise in running workshops and

events, and regularly give talks to community groups and organisations.

Click here for a pdf about what we offer.

We can quote to run these and many other courses in horticulture to groups of any size and level of experience and tailor them to your needs. We are both experienced and qualified teachers and trainers as well as horticulturists with decades of experience!

Please contact us to discuss your ideas for events, workshops or talks.

Plants with Purpose events

If there’s one thing I like as much as growing and selling useful plants
its talking about them. Formal lectures are not my style, and I can guarantee an interactive and informative experience with as much chance as the topic allows for hands on activity and audience participation.

Workshops run at Plants with Purpose are diverse and stimulating. “Beginning with Herbs” and “Using Herbs Creatively” take you through how to grow, preserve, cook, make cosmetic and medicinal preparations, and introduce a range of herbs rarely seen in garden centres.
 
“Grow Your Own” courses will stimulate the novice gardener into greater self-sufficiency. “ Creating Wildlife Gardens”, “Forest Gardening”, “Designing for Wildlife” and “Unco-operative Plants” will put the participant right on most aspects of sustainable gardening.
And our popular Wild Food Days, Weekends and Rambles have something for everyone – fruits, fungi, vegetables and roots – covering recognition and identification skills as well as uses.

Events with the Appletreeman

A fanatical pursuant of all things fruity (!), the Appletreeman runs a seamless programme of related workshops and events throughout the year, starting with winter pruning and tree renovation in winter, moving onto bench grafting and orchard planning in spring, Orchard Pests and Disease Management, budding and summer pruning, fruit identification and apple days, then cidermaking and drinking, not that anyone requires a course in that!

We can run these events at any orchard or fruity venue, and they can be tailored for a wide range of groups.

Appletreeman will happily give talks to groups on any aspect of fruit tree management and history, as well as trees, plant propagation and horticulture therapy.