The Micro Gardener: Microgreens + Micro-seasons

The Micro Gardener: Microgreens + Micro-seasons

Refreshing evening workshop: explore and take home the added benefits of micogreens and expand your view of growing beyond the 4 seasons

By Festina Lente CLG

Date and time

Wednesday, July 3 · 6:30 - 8pm GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bré Ireland

Refund Policy

Contact the organizer to request a refund.

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

The Microgreen Gardener: A new outlook for experiencing seasons and growing

This unique workshop invites all levels and experiences of gardening - the techniques shared, can be used in any indoor or outdoor growing space e.g. apartment or garden.


This interactive fusion workshop will explore how to grow in new ways: inspired by a blend of:

  1. the ancient Japanese wisdom of experiencing seasonality as more than 4 seasons
  2. the accelerative practive of growing and harvesting microgreens

Activities will include:

  • A tour and discussion on the Japanese landscape ethic of living and growing in micro-seasons - with demonstrative techniques for attentive micro gardening, as experienced via a tour of the walled gardens "nooks and crannies"
  • A birds eye view of a range of microgreens and how to grow and harvest (within 1 week!) - how to grow and harvest in small pockets of space. Seed packets/samples will be provided - activate your own microgreen gardener project in your home and community.
  • We will then sow some microgreens to take home via a facilitated micro-seasonal gardening session
  • Finally - we will enjoy a tasting-recipe range of harvested microgreen mini plates in the beautiful walled gardens
  • Handouts and refreshments are included in the workshop

"If you trust in Nature, in the small things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable: if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everythinng will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge" - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Organized by

Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops,  a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus.  The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis.  It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation.  Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly.  Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk.  The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.