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We teach at a number of sites in the UK

We have a demonstration market garden at Sheepdrove Organic Farm in Berkshire

We have a Self-sufficiency garden at Hestercombe gardens in Somerset

We also teach at the fantastic Grange Project in Shropshire

If you would like to visit or attent a course there, please get in touch

We also create growing spaces across the UK - find out how we can help

Market Garden Training Hub

for new entrant growers

  • FARMSTART program delivered in Berkshire
  • Delivered at various venues across the UK
  • Organic, No Dig & Regenerative
  • Fully funded FARMSTART intro
  • GROWstart for on ite experience
  • SALESstart Business & Marketing modules
  • PLOTstart site design
  • JAMstart value added products
  • PLANTstart propagation techniques
  • Access to land 
  • Ongoing mentoring & support

Apply now for Berkshire

FARMstart in Shropshire

Existing Market Gardens

  • Design, Build or Expansions of new & existing enterprises
  • Financial viability
  • Training for growers
  • Fruit & Veg
  • Herbs
  • Nuts
  • Poultry & Fowl for egg production
  • Ethical Honey
  • Mushroom farming
  • Edible & Cut Flowers
  • Site assessments
  • Whole ecosystem design & biodiversity

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Essential Soils model

a robust & resilient regenerative food growing model built for financial success & low inputs

  • Agroforestry & Syntropic systems
  • Integrated systems
  • Fruit, Veg, Herbs, Nuts, Eggs, Honey, Mushrooms, Edible & Cut flowers
  • 75% perennial based systems
  • Designing for biodiversity
  • High value crops
  • Sales feasibility
  • Integrated pest management
  • Marketing support
  • Seed and plant supply

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Chard, Lettuce, Runner bean and Broad bean seedlings. Buy your vegetable seedlings from edge this yearEdge vegetable raised bed with straw mulch for low maintenance growingFungi growing in one of our edible raised beds - so many plants growing and soil so moist, it has created its own micro climate!Vegetable seedlings growing in a greenhouse - edge sells edible plants

Self-Sufficiency food gardens

We produce self-sufficiency plans for people motivated to produce as much of their own food at home, on an allotment or micro farms

  • Self-sufficiency designs

  • Crop plans

  • Sowing calendars

  • Site plans

  • At home training bespoke to you

  • Plant supply

Gardeners, Allotment holders & Smallholders

We want to support more people growing their own food at home or on an allotment

  • A program of workshops designed for beginners to experienced gardeners

  • Low maintenance planting plans which give plenty of food year-round

  • Plant supply

  • Planting assistance

  • Ongoing support

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Low maintenance & Wildlife friendly spaces

  • By creating low maintenance & wildlife friendly garden designs, we hope that more people will be open to growing their own food at home and on the allotment

  • We help reduce the management time needed to grow food

  • We design for natural pest management

  • We use edible perennials and unusual edibles

  • Crops which will turn heads & get your friends talking

  • Different flavours to cook with

  

Growing plants

  • We grow edible plants in our nursery where we can completely control and regulate the growing environment
  • We use our plants for teaching and the market gardens we manage
  • We design growing spaces for cooking schools, catering colleges, hotels, cafes & restaurants
  • We have experience in growing a wide range of fruit (including citrus), vegetables (annual and perennial), indoor & outdoor mushroom production, herbs & spices (modern and historic), edible flowers, nuts, honey & egg production

Our growing principles:

  • Chemical free - no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or insecticides
  • No dig - minimum soil interference to maintain soil health & ecosystems
  • No bare soil - using mulches & groundcover plants to reduce weeds, retain water in soil & minimise irrigation needs
  • No walking on growing beds - soil compaction disturbs the soil food web & prevents effective drainage
  • Polycultures - multiple crops growing together; maximum produce, minimum labour & optimum soil health
  • Integrated pest management using specific crop combinations
  • Agroforestry  - integrating trees, shrubs & hedging within our sites for livestock, production & soil health
  • Growing perennials to increase harvest seasons & reduce labour
  • Prioritise heritage & UK varieties & named varieties (not hybrid seeds) & seed saving
  • Grafting with scion wood (cuttings) from local orchards 
  • Peat free growing media
  • Minimal use of plastic pots, reusing where possible
  • Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle

At present we sell:

Fruit trees

  • Apple, Pear, Plum, Damson, Greengage, Quince, Cherry

Soft fruit bushes

  • e.g. Black, Red & White currant, Gooseberry, Jostaberry, Worcesterberry, Thornless Blackberry, Worcesterberry, Cape Gooseberry and more

Climbers

  • e.g. Loganberry, Japanese Wineberry, Tayberry, Blackberry and more

Perennial vegetables: 

  • e.g. Good King Henry, Sweet Cicely, Rhubarb, Salad Burnet and more

Herbs

  • Culinary, medicinal and tea varieties of herbs including more unusual herbs such as Lovage, Winter Savoury and a full range of mints – from Lime Mint to Lavender Mint

Edible flower plants

  • e.g. Chives, Borage, Calendula and many more – perfect for brightening up a salad!

Contact us

To get in touch with about buying our plants, grown in our own  nursery please email us at edge