Accredited courses

This course has been designed for both those considering a career in market gardening and those have a growing space and want to feed their families. Held over six weekends with one assessment at the end, expect to come away with a design and a business plan for your space, whether real or for the future. Influenced by permaculture and written and delivered by farm with a successful veg box scheme we can’t wait to share what we’ve learned along the way with you.

Certificate in Community Orcharding (CICO) is a unique Level 3 training course, run by The Orchard Project and accredited by Crossfields Institute, combining high quality online learning with seven action-packed face-to-face training days over 7 months.

Want to start your own horticultural growing business?

Learn the skills you need to design, create and manage a forest garden with our seven month accredited online course, featuring the videos of Martin Crawford.
Learn from videos, handouts, interactive quizzes and online assessments leading you to qualify for a Level 2 Award in Forest Gardening.
Supporting the online materials are seven interactive online tutorials.
Cost £570 – £800 payment by monthly instalments is available.

The Apricot Centre CIC is once again offering its flagship yearlong Level 3 diploma programme with land based learning and work experience accompanying academic study. The programme runs from January to December for 5 days a week (4 days on a work experience placement farm and 1 day academic learning at the Apricot Centre).

Endorsed by the Biodynamic Association Board of Studies, this programme has two primary areas of focus: biodynamic ecology (Growing the Land), and therapeutic education (Growing People).

A year-long Level 2 course in Agroecology with land-based learning to help students transition into, or upgrade their skills in, the world of regenerative farming.

Hwb Dysgu’r Tir is a not-for-profit training hub providing training and professional development in sustainable land management practices, food, natural crafts and nature recovery for farmers, food producers, land managers and the rural communities

We aim to reimagine what a comprehensive training hub for agroecological growing would look like; courses where the training is centred at the heart of the experience, with the field based work in support of the learning outcomes.