How Cool Are Nettles?! – homemade organic fertiliser workshop

Join our nettle party and learn how to make nutritious, organic fertiliser from nettles, comfrey, seaweed, coffee grounds and banana peel!

• Learn how to identify and forage wild plants that you can use to boost your garden.
• Understand the benefits and properties of each ingredient, their chemical composition, and how they affect the different kinds of plants that you grow.
• Compare the techniques of steeping, pressing and composting to create fertiliser.
• Try some delicious nettle-based food.
• Meet fellow wild food and organic gardening enthusiasts.
• Probably get stung by nettles.

You’ll leave with a bottle of concentrated fertiliser that you can use on your garden or houseplants right away!

What to bring:

• As many banana peels as you can save in the week before.
• A bottle or jar to take home liquid fertiliser.
• Your own gardening gloves if you have them.
• A folding chair if you would like to sit down outside.
• Your own mug, bowl, spoon and fork for soup and snacks.
• A flask of water to drink.

A light lunch will be provided, but feel free to bring your own lunch or snacks if you would like.

We’ll meet in Ravenscraig Walled Garden, which has uneven paths and may be muddy or slippery. Please wear suitable shoes!

This is a sliding-scale donation-based workshop! Everyone is welcome, even if you don’t have funds to pay at the moment. If you do, please consider:

• Donating £5 to cover our basic costs.
• Donating £10 to help us provide workshops to people who are less able to afford it.
• Donating £15 to support this workshop and our other Seed Library events and activities.

How to find us

Enter Ravenscraig Walled Garden through big grey gates next to the main Dysart entrance to Ravenscraig Park. Follow the path around keeping the Greener Kirkcaldy cabin on your left. When you reach the end of the path, with the Greener Kirkcaldy on your left, turn right where you’ll see some blue benches.. and us! We’ll have plenty of signs up so you shouldn’t get lost!

There’s some parking in the entrance or Ravenscraig Walled Garden, and behind the Greener Kirkcaldy cabin, but to keep spaces for allotment holders and volunteers, if you are able to street park in Dysart, or at Dysart Harbour carpark, or to cycle or travel by public transport please do so!