Short courses at Wakehurst (Kew satellite site)

[Jodie]

Public education courses (at Wakehurst Place)
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/education/courses/index.htm

Examples
Living willow seats - Thur 29 March or Tue 3 April
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/education/courses/crafts.htm#willow_seats

Various plant photography days (at both sites)
Wildflower walks (at Kew)
Wildlife watching (bat night / badgers & kingfishers)

Woodlands lecture by Oliver Rackham - Tue 26 June
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/education/courses/lectures.htm#woodlands

One day Basic Bushcraft course - Sat 22 September
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/education/courses/naturalhistory.htm#bushcraft_skills

and a week long "Botany for Beginners" class at Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/education/courses/botany.htm#botany_beginners

Kew's events page:
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/events/index.html

Lectures at Kew:
http://www.kew.org/kmis/pages/lectures/schedule.htm

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Centre):
http://www.kew.org/epic/index.htm

Kew's Economic Botany Centre
http://www.kew.org/scihort/ecbot/index.html

 

[JonnyP]

A botanist I went plant surveying with last year is an adviser at wakehurst, I must try to get me on one of there plant courses....
Thanks for the info Jodie...

 

[Jodie]

I'd love to do the one day bushcraft one though relying on public
transport to get me to the venue for 9am might be a bit challenging.

Definitely up for the botany one - am going to book that week off
as a holiday I think and sign up, might see you there

Apparently the Kew people are looking at their 'short course' portfolio
and might expand it a bit to include something a bit more on ethnobotany
so I expect now's the time to express an interest, to encourage them
in this!