Events and training from our network
Friday Late Music with Sarina Mantle
OmVed Gardens, N6 5JF
12 Dec 2025 | Event
Sarina is an interdisciplinary artist, sound practitioner, and author of Women + Patterns + Plants. On Friday 12 December, she will transform the OmVed Gardens Barn into an immersive sensory landscape. Expect an evening of experimental soundscapes, live music, and visual art that invites you to slow down, tune in, and experience the natural world in new ways.
Sarina is an interdisciplinary artist, sound practitioner, and author of Women + Patterns + Plants. On Friday 12 December, she will transform the OmVed Gardens Barn into an immersive sensory landscape. Expect an evening of experimental soundscapes, live music, and visual art that invites you to slow down, tune in, and experience the natural world in new ways.
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Listening & Creating Living Landscapes Workshop
OmVed Gardens, N6 5JF
13 Dec 2025 | Accredited training
Using Plantwave bio-rhythmic technology - which translates the subtle activity of plants into sound - participants will be invited to listen to the living voices of greenery in real time. These sonic patterns will then serve as prompts for artistic exploration: lines, curves, and abstract geometries brought to life through drawing and painting on easels set within the garden.
Using Plantwave bio-rhythmic technology - which translates the subtle activity of plants into sound - participants will be invited to listen to the living voices of greenery in real time. These sonic patterns will then serve as prompts for artistic exploration: lines, curves, and abstract geometries brought to life through drawing and painting on easels set within the garden.
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10-week Gardening Fundamentals evening course with EcoLocal
EcoLocal The Lodge, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3NX
22 Jan 2026 | Accredited training
We have an exciting new gardening course at EcoLocal. Our RHS qualified and award-winning Horticultural tutor has developed a 10-week classroom-based evening course called ‘Gardening Fundamentals’ that takes you through the full range of gardening activities, from looking after and improving soil to pruning, propagation, design and keeping plants healthy. This new course will run on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm for 10 consecutive weeks between 22nd January and 26th March 2026.
We have an exciting new gardening course at EcoLocal. Our RHS qualified and award-winning Horticultural tutor has developed a 10-week classroom-based evening course called ‘Gardening Fundamentals’ that takes you through the full range of gardening activities, from looking after and improving soil to pruning, propagation, design and keeping plants healthy. This new course will run on a Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm for 10 consecutive weeks between 22nd January and 26th March 2026.
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Winter pruning of fruit trees
EcoLocal Community Allotment, Carshalton, SM5
24 Jan 2026 | Accredited training
Free standing apple and pear trees should be pruned in winter when they are dormant, to keep them productive and control their size. If you are new to pruning, or not feeling very confident, join us on this popular, hands-on winter pruning workshop to find out how to successfully prune your trees.
– Prune spur and tip bearing apples and pears
– Regenerate old trees
– Improve tree health
– Encourage fruiting
– Use and maintain pruning tools
Free standing apple and pear trees should be pruned in winter when they are dormant, to keep them productive and control their size. If you are new to pruning, or not feeling very confident, join us on this popular, hands-on winter pruning workshop to find out how to successfully prune your trees.
– Prune spur and tip bearing apples and pears
– Regenerate old trees
– Improve tree health
– Encourage fruiting
– Use and maintain pruning tools
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Community Orcharding Course (Level 3)
63/66 Hatton Garden, Fifth floor, Suite 23, EC1N 8LE
1 Feb 2026 | Accredited training
Our Certificate in Community Orcharding course combines high quality online learning with 7 action-packed, face-to-face training days. Running February 2026 - August 2026 at various venues across London, you'll learn the skills necessary for effective orchard management, particularly of veteran trees.
This Level 3 course is accredited by Crossfields Institute and involves practical as well as written assessments.
Cost: £880 concessionary/£1230 general admission. Monthly payments available
Our Certificate in Community Orcharding course combines high quality online learning with 7 action-packed, face-to-face training days. Running February 2026 - August 2026 at various venues across London, you'll learn the skills necessary for effective orchard management, particularly of veteran trees.
This Level 3 course is accredited by Crossfields Institute and involves practical as well as written assessments.
Cost: £880 concessionary/£1230 general admission. Monthly payments available
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