HILLDROP TRAINING:
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2025
Hilldrop will be running this year's training across five days in 2025 (see dates below), equipping the 'modern gardener' with the skills to design sustainable green spaces for a changing world. Training you in everything but horticulture, you will learn from the best, from dry stone walling to sustainable urban drainage systems.
To guarantee the ongoing exchange of knowledge, we hope to build a community of gardeners who have been through the Hilldrop Training and would afterwards be able to go into a community garden and share their new-found knowledge.
This would be a one-off paid day and we will be asking community spaces to apply to us for a gardener in our next phase.
All our training is free and will take place at Hilldrop in Essex.
Friday 2nd May
Dry stone walling (using demolition waste) with Duncan Nuttal
Green Infrastructure with John Little
Friday 9th May
Sustainable drainage including habitat rain gardens and rain planters with Wendy Allen
Friday 30th May
Understanding urban policy and biodiversity net gain around habitat creation with Peter Massini
Community engagement including running a successful community garden.
Trainer TBC
Friday 27th June
Garden ecology focusing on invertebrate identification, surveying amd reporting with Benny Hawksbee and Andy Phillips
Friday 11th July
Habitat creation and maintenance with John Little and Benny Hawksbee
Applications for the free training in 2025 are currently closed.
If you don't wish to apply - or don't end up getting a place on the course - we will also be running most of the same training as individual courses which you will be able to book and pay for through our website next month.
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