About this Event
This year, our headline event will feature landscape designer Marian Boswall, author of The Kindest Garden.
Marian will talk through some of the very practical and thoughtful approaches we can take in any scale garden, from choosing plants to suit the stage of your garden’s soil, to creating a self supporting ecosystem above and below ground, to creating community resilience through gardening, and beauty through intention.
"Resilience means adapting our gardens and landscapes to survive better through extremes, including wet and dry weather. When added together, our millions of small interventions could also rebalance some of the effects of these climatic shifts".
Marian Boswall
We will also hear from Holly Silvester of The Gaia Foundation and East Neuk Market Garden, who will explore the fascinating subject of seed sovreignty and how on a local level, we can build resilience into the systems that we rely on for sustanance.
"Seeds and humans have co-evolved since the beginning of our existence – there is a deep history of relationship where we worked in collaboration with plants, forming a reciprocal relationship that allowed both plants and humans to thrive. But somewhere along the way we’ve forgotten that; the impact of which we’re only now fully realising. As gardeners and growers, we’ve come to view seed as a commodity as there’s been an increasing lack of access to locally grown, climate adaptive seed. We’ve become disconnected and therefore disempowered from seed stewardship. But what could be possible if we start to restore this relationship? In the seemingly insignificant act of growing a few seeds, we could all be restoring resilience and to our gardens, and contributing to transformational change".
Holly Silvester
Itinerary:
10:30 - Teas and coffee on arrival
11:00 - Welcome
11:15 - Split guests into two groups for guided tour of the compost trail with Head Gardener Callum Halstead / Introduction to no-dig gardening, seed saving and sustainable cut flower growing with the Cambo garden team
12:15 - Short break, then groups swap over
13:30 - Buffet Lunch
14:15 - Talk from Holly Silvester
15:30 - Talk from Marian Boswall
16:45 - Evening drinks in the gardens
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cambo House, Cambo Estate, Cambo House, St Andrews, United Kingdom
GBP 54.88 to GBP 76.55
