Herb Gardening & Application Experience for One or Two at Good Thyme Living

Improve your family’s health with a new found knowledge and use of herbal gardening!

 

It’s all about adding herbs and edible flowers to your kitchen garden to skillfully grow these specialist plants. It’s not about how pretty the garden looks or how the flowers attract bees - these are just some of the bonus features of your garden.  

 

Good Thyme Living offers these classes for those interested in perfecting their techniques, or those newbies to the garden who wish to learn all they can to create a stunning section of garden. 

 

 

• Herb Gardening & Application Course for One – R349 (valued at R800)
• Herb Gardening & Application Course for Two – R679 (valued at R1600)

 

 

In this class, you will work with herbs as plants in the GoodThyme garden to understand different plant components and quirks from a food garden or herbary, harvest herbs to use, and work towards the unrushed process of cultivating ingredients. This is the traditional “old school” way towards a herbarium or a pottage garden for fresh ingredients.

 

• 3-Hour Course
• Saturdays (09h00 – 12h00) 
• A minimum of 10 people per class required. 
• Classes are scheduled for mid-months. 
• Training takes place outside in the GoodThyme herb garden. 
• An attendance certificate will be provided on completion of tasks.
• We offer coffee /tea and cookies at tea time and upon arrival.

 

 

• What to Wear: comfortable clothing, sensible shoes, add a hat to provide some shade to your head, bring your own loved gloves (if used) and those favourite garden shears (if available).
• Shears, gloves, plants, gardener’s aprons are available to buy.
• Bring pens to take notes: course offers a step by step explanation of the need to know issues.

 

 

An herb gardener is first a lover of gardens, then an artist and then a crafter of plants to get high quality ingredients - one trained to the highest ability - to mix plants to their advantage in a garden, shape a plant through cutting, and make a well-trimmed sustainable use of herbs. Such a gardener incorporates the science behind the chemicals inherent in the plants as an ingredient in food dishes to use them to create the most healthy food dishes and extracts for health. This fun, informative workshop provides you with an understanding of the art behind the growing of particular herbs and how they are best used in foods such as scones, curry dishes and cookies.