Get Started in Urban Farming

ABOUT THIS EVENT

The Prince’s Trust has partnered Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) to bring you an exciting range of practical workshops to provide an insight into urban agriculture.

Over the course of the week you'll get to learn more about the importance of agriculture, and the careers that are available to you in garden management such as growing crops, on site crafting, sustainability training and landscape design. Combining group discussions and practical workshops from the experts, you'll leave with a wealth of skills and a new-found confidence

Get Started in Urban farming – A project from the Prince’s Trust, based in Fallowfield’s famous Platt Fields Park Marketgarden, offering you 5 days of outdoor activities and workshops by local urban horticulturalists.

This brand new programme is offered to you COMPLETLY FREE OF CHARGE here you’ll get to explore all the roles that are available in Garden management - from growing crops, on site crafting, sustainability training, to Landscape design and everything in between!

This experience is packed full of exciting learning to help you develop your practical skills while forming new relationships and building confidence.

Over the week you will take part in:

• Crafting & building – Creating spaces out of willow branches and left-over materials.
• Bio-Diversity – How we can improve the area by encouraging new growth of plant life and undertake some ‘Urban-greening’; create a more sustainable and self-sufficient way of living.
• Harvesting & Composting - Sowing seeds and making compost, maintaining crops, crafting growing beds, and digging up (and tasting) the delicious harvested on-site produce!
• Outdoor sourcing and cooking – Selecting and eating fresh produce grown on site, using the onsite grill and BBQ smoker for a unique cooking experience.
• Delivered by a range of professionals within Urban Horticulture and Environmental activism, here we will further your skills and understanding of gardening, landscaping and sustainability.

Not just that, MUD site offers a range of other offers: Mushroom farming, Fire kiln ceramics – with throw down pottery wheel, along with beekeeping!

This programme is perfect for someone who wants to get into nature or yearns to know more about it.

MUD proudly offer a friendly environment for anybody suffering with social anxieties – This week is to build your confidence and to offer you some escapism from the city, by getting our hands dirty and putting back into the community.

Wellbeing and building confidence is at the forefront of MUD’s programme. By working in a greenspace we will have 5 day access to nature, proven to reduce stress, benefit sleep and promote creativity along with social interaction.

Together we will build on confidence by developing new practical skills but also seek to improve mood and wellbeing by being in such a unique and exciting space.

With this experience you can:

• Add your experience to your CV as part of your professional development which will improve your employability

• Expand your knowledge of roles available within Horticulturalism, Ecology, Environmentalism and Landscaping.

COURSE DETAILS

Date: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August

Duration: Five days, Full time

Times: 10am – 3:00pm each day (Time's subject to change, speak to your adviser for details)

Location: Platt Fields Market Garden, M14 6LT

Lunch will be provided and support towards transport fees will be covered by The Prince's Trust.

Cost: FREE

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

To be eligible for this course you must meet the following criteria:

• Live in Greater Manchester

• Be aged between 16-25

• Not currently in employment or on a zero-hours contract or working less than 16 hours per week

• Not currently in education or in education for less than 14 hours per week

PLEASE NOTE: Registering for this event does not mean you are guaranteed a place on the programme.

After registering your details, a Prince's Trust Executive will get in touch with you via email to check that you're eligible for the programme.

Please set a reminder in your calendar to check your emails (including your spam folder) and/or phone as we will get in contact with you for more details before we share the event information.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Platt Fields Market Garden, Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield,, Manchester, United Kingdom