Indoor Vertical Farming and Microgreen Production

This exciting course will give you the skills and inspiration to grow fantastically healthy and nourishing food from you home, all year - round without acces to a land or a garden. This course is for anyone living without land or a garden that wants to be self sufficient and self reliant ina  cost-efficient way.

We will begin with a talk will cover the basics of establishing small scale Microgreen production in very small spaces, such as a spare room.

It will show that with very low energy usage, quite an incredible amount of a Super Healthy, as well as tasty, superfood can be produced.

It will cover ..

1-What are Microgreens

2- How to grow them Organically

3- What you need to Grow them

4- How to establish a small business selling them locally with a low carbon footprint

5- The incredible health benefits of eating Microgreens.

6 - The future of vertical farming, it's benefits for the environment and the local economy.

7 - The potential benefits of growing year round indoors in a changing environment, and with increasing overpopulation.

Nick and Giselle are creators and owners of New Leaf Micro Greens . After the tough times of Covid and Lockdowns, Nick and Giselle decided to start another business that they could run alongside the Paragliding School they had been running for many years.  They had been keen growers of Microgreens for some time, for the numerous health benefits of these amazing tiny plants, and after getting lots of fantastic feedback from their friends in the small coastal village of St Dogmaels, they decided to expand their production, and share their passion with a wider audience!! They rapidly grrew, and as well as supplying many locals from their immediate area, they are also proud to supply numerous restaurants and fine eating establishments throughout the beautiful county of Pembrokeshire

The UK Community Renewal Fund is a UK Government programme for

2021/22. This aims to support people and communities most in need across

the UK to pilot programmes and new approaches to prepare for the UK

Shared Prosperity Fund.  It invests in skills, community and place, local

business, and supporting people into employment.   For more information,

visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-community-renewal-fund-

prospectus