This hands-on workshop will show you how to turn everyday scraps and store-bought produce into thriving plants, making food growing accessible, affordable, and sustainable.
Learn how to grow herbs, vegetables, and microgreens from kitchen staples like shop-bought peas, garlic, and fresh herbs. Discover the best techniques for cutting and propagating herbs to prolong their growth and multiply your harvest. We’ll also explore the benefits of growing perennial vegetables over annuals, ensuring a continuous food supply with minimal effort.
Whether you're new to food growing or looking to expand your skills, this session will equip you with practical, low-cost techniques to start growing your own food at home—no garden required!
This is the 1st session of the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.
Top Skills You’ll Gain:
Seed Sowing
Propagating from Cuttings
Confidence in Food Growing
Join us and start your journey towards homegrown, sustainable food!
The Regenerative Garden
Welcome to the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.
Over five engaging sessions, our gardening team will guide you through practical techniques, ecological insights, and seasonal inspirations to help you grow food and cultivate biodiversity in harmony with nature.
Step into our gardens to explore the deep connections between soil, plants, and ecosystems. We’ll share the knowledge we’ve gathered at OmVed—through tending the land, saving seeds, and working with nature—while creating space to learn from each other’s experiences.
Whether you join the full course or book for a single session, you'll gain valuable skills to build your own regenerative garden. Our garden and kitchen sessions are thoughtfully designed to complement each other through both topic and seasonality, yet each session also stands strong on its own.
The OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series is created and led by members of the OmVed Gardening team including Vicky Chown, Head of Urban Growing, John Gaffney, Landscape Gardener, Tej Rawal, Assistant Food Grower, Daniel Connor, Seed Saving Network Coordinator and Lysson Marchesault, Assistant Landscape Gardener.
About the session’s host:
Vicky Chown is the Head of Urban Growing at OmVed Gardens, a published author, medical herbalist, forager, and experienced food grower. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing, and founded The Seed Saving Network, a biodiverse community of seed savers in London and across the UK. Vicky integrates medicinal plants into urban spaces, combining her expertise in herbal medicine and foraging with a passion for sustainable gardening. Alongside Kim Walker, she co-runs The Handmade Apothecary, a project dedicated to foraging and herbal education. Vicky’s work empowers individuals to grow their own food, reconnect with nature, and cultivate healthy, self-sustaining lifestyles.
About OmVed Gardens:
OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.
As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.
We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.
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Subsidised Tickets:
We have a few reserved tickets at a subsidised rate. If this workshop is not monetarily accessible, please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com to avail yourself of a subsidised ticket rate. Subject to availability.
Refund Policy:
These tickets are refundable up to 10 days before the start of the sessions on July 2 post which they will be non-refundable.
