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Explore Our Range of Courses and Workshops

Throughout the year we run a series of courses and workshops including the renown Organic Gardening Course by Tim Foster and several Keeping Chickens’ Workshops.

Feel free to contact us if you’d like to partner or offer your own course by hiring a Farm site. We have several spaces available for hire, including classrooms, kitchens, a private woodland and a community building.

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The experienced team of horticulturists at the Propagation Place has been providing gardening tips and advice for many years so they’ve created an Online Vegetable Gardening Course for Beginners!

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Online Vegetable Gardening Course

The Propagation Place’s Online Vegetable Gardening Course for Beginners acts as a companion and guide into your first forays into growing your own vegetables.

The course material is a mixture of videos, activities and written information.

Organic Gardening Course by Tim Foster

Each year, between January and June, we run our annual Organic and Allotment Gardening Course for those who want to learn how to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

This course — the best of its kind in Bristol — has been running for over 20 years and is designed with a great mixture of theory and practice.

Horticulture teacher and author Tim Foster shares his knowledge and skills, from pruning to sowing, pests to composting, rotations to companion planting and much more.

Read Tim’s introduction letter and the 2026 course schedule

For the 2026 course, each session will be held on Wednesday mornings and will include two hours of theory in the farm’s Community Building, followed by an hour long practical session on nearby allotments.

The fee for the 2026 course is £320 (full income) / £250 (low waged).

If you’d like to apply for the 2026 course, please complete an application form and return this to office@swcityfarm.co.uk .

Keeping Chickens

We also offer courses for those intending to keep their own chickens. If you want to put your name on the waiting list for the next one, please email Farmer Bill on animals@swcityfarm.co.uk.