Cultivate You Workshops at Moongate Plant Centre
If you would like to take some time out and learn new skills, why not book a place on one of our workshops? If your garden, plants, nature, growing your own produce, cut flowers or the local Shropshire landscape are some of your passions we think our workshops will be right up your street. Read on for more info...
Our workshops will make the perfect gift for you or a loved one You are guaranteed a warm welcome and places on each workshop are deliberately kept small to ensure you receive all the support you need.
Book now to avoid disappointment by clicking on the Book Now button to purchase your place via our online shop or book in person next time you visit Moongate Plant Centre.
If you do have any questions regarding the workshops, please do not hesitate to drop us an email or call.
A beginner’s guide to growing vegetables and fruit.
Ever wondered how to get started growing your own? We will prove to you that anyone can do it – you don’t even need a garden! We’ve teamed up with local grower Carrie Bennett from Carrie’s Garden to deliver this brilliant bite-sized workshop to help you nurture and grow
Dates:
Follow Up Workshop - available for past participants on Saturday 15th October, 9am start.
Cost: £30 per person (includes refreshments and plants/seeds to take home, plus an on the day 10% Moongate Plant Centre discount).
Beginners Guide - Saturday 4th March 2023, 9am start.
Cost: £50 per person (includes refreshments, resources and plants to take home, plus an on the day 10% Moongate Plant Centre discount).
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Deep down things: Creative writing in the Garden
Join award winning poet and Shropshire based author Kate Innes for a three hour guided workshop to help your creative shoots emerge and bloom into story or poem.
A garden is a creative zone - full of things burgeoning and becoming - planned and unplanned. You will use garden folklore, mythology, fiction and non-fiction writing prompts to help you discuss and explore the emotional and dramatic potential of gardens, with the opportunity to write a variety of short fiction and/or poetry inspired by these earthly paradises.
Local novelist, poet, and teacher Kate Innes will lead this inspiring creative writing workshop to help bring your ideas to fruition, amongst Moongate’s beautiful borders. The workshop for adults age 17 and above will be a supportive, positive environment for those new to writing and for the experienced. Constructive feedback will be provided. You can find out more about Kate by visiting her website at; www.kateinneswriter.com
Date: Saturday 17th September, 10am – 1pm (with a 20 minute break) at Moongate Plant Centre.
Cost: £40 per person (includes refreshments) and an on the day 10% Moongate Plant Centre discount.
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Journey to the heart of nature: A fresh way to reactivate your creativity for beginners and returners to art.
From seed, to leaf, to bloom to fruit. Allow local creative Su Barber to guide and reactivate your creativity as you learn how to explore and appreciate the colours, patterns, shapes and textures of the nature that surrounds you. From drawing to collage, acrylics and pastels - you’ll have access to a range of materials to help you explore and rediscover the natural world and gain the confidence to reconnect with your natural surroundings.
Su is a visual artist and has worked as a community artist and in arts development. She is fascinated with the patterns that are formed in nature and is committed to supporting others as they shift their creative blocks too. She also supports mothers through art and remains connected to the essential playful element of ourselves which helps us to see things differently. She loves labyrinths and is happy meandering to unknown creative centre points, finding her way. She recently exhibited her artwork in a group exhibition with the Silver Spoon Collective in Lancaster, dedicated to the healing of the Witch Wound, left by the Burning Times.
Date: Saturday 8 October, 10am – 1pm at Moongate Plant Centre. The workshop is for adults age 14 and above, those studying for art GCSE might enjoy it too.
Cost: £50 (includes refreshments, use of materials and sketchbooks to take home) plus on the day 10% Moongate Plant Centre discount. Please feel free to bring your own sketchbooks and materials if you prefer.
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Plotting and planning your garden for the year ahead.
This is the course for you if you simply want to learn how to begin getting the most from your garden. You’ll leave this 3 hour workshop with a personalised plan and the confidence to make the year ahead the one that transforms how you see and use your space.
Date: Saturday 12th November, 10am start or Saturday 14th January 2023, 10am start at Moongate Plant Centre.
Cost: £50 per person (includes refreshments, resources and plants to take home, plus an on the day 10% Moongate Plant Centre discount).
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Family flower pressing.
Help share a love of flowers and plants with two hours of pressing fun followed by an hour in the Apley Playbarn. You’ll gather flowers and foliage from Moongate Plant Centre and learn how to use a flower press. Once pressed, the dried flowers will be safely stored for collection at a later date.
Date: No date at present
Cost:
This activity is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 12 and all children must be accompanied at all times by an adult. Flower presses are also available to purchase on the day.
Please click on the button below to book a workshop. Please include your name and a contact telephone number so that we can arrange payment and the date of workshop you’d like to attend.