The Erasmus+ project “Craft Skills for Garden Conservation” (CSGC) gives all people interested in heritage gardens upskilling opportunities. Join us for the first two webinars in February!
Heritage gardens encapsulate so much of the natural and cultural capital and require a huge amount of knowledge and skill. But both are in increasingly short supply. CSGC aims to address this problem by finding best practice in nine selected fields of Garden Conservation (as below) and by facilitating arenas for learning and sharing.
Read more about the project here.
During a period of three years, several activities will be arranged:
– nine all-day winter webinars will introduce one topic of Garden Conservation each and to prepare the following thematic workshop
– nine practical workshops to explore and to train the practical skills required
– five cross-cutting seminars/conferences for the dissemination and sharing.
Read more about the project and recent news on the project website of the project leader Vea – Norway’s green vocational college.
Three webinars (soil, lawns and meadows, trained fruit) have been organised so far and the recordings can be found on the project’s website.
Join us, by following the apply button on the project’s website, for the first three practical workshops during this summer:
Overview of all activities:
Soil management in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 08.02.2022 (online); Workshop: 24.-25.05.2022 (Norway)
Lawns and Meadows in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 22.02.2022 (online); Workshop: 07.-10.06.2022 (Sweden)
Trained Fruit Trees in Historic Kitchen Gardens
Webinar: 15.03.2022 (online); Workshop: 30.-31.08.2022 (UK)
Ornamental Plants in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 15.11.2022 (online); Workshop: 20.-21.06.2023 (UK)
Trees in Historic Gardens in Climate Change
Webinar: 10.01.2023 (online); Workshop: 05.-06.09.2023 (Germany)
Hedges and Topiary Cultivation in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 24.01.2023 (online); Workshop: 12.-13.09.2023 (Sweden)
Management of Orangery Plants in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 07.11.2023 (online); Workshop: 05.-06.03.2024 (Germany)
Pathway and Stone Wall Management in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 21.21.2023 (online); Workshop: 07.-08.05.2024 (Sweden)
Ponds and Fountains in Historic Gardens
Webinar: 16.01.2024 (online); Workshop: 04.-05.06.2024 (Russia)
Participation in the webinars is free of charge. There might be small fees for the workshops to cover meals and local transport.
This is our partnership for this Erasmus+ project:
Norway:
Norges grønne fagskole – VEA (Project Lead)
EUROMASC
Russia:
Summer Garden in St. Petersburg (EGHN partner)
Sweden:
Gunnebo House and Gardens (EGHN partner)
Craft Laboratory at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg
UK:
PlantNetwork
Germany:
Stiftung Schloss Dyck
European Garden Heritage Network
All partners contribute to the finance of the project, but implementation would not be possible without the funding by the Erasmus+ Programme.
