Discover the benefits of our No Dig Policy at Dunmore Country School, where you can cultivate your own vegetables in a:
Join us at Dunmore Country School to embrace this innovative gardening technique and reap the rewards of homegrown vegetables!
We offer gardening courses where you will learn how to grow your own food using our simple, No-dig gardening techniques. This method not only improves soil health but also saves time and reduces strain, making it a back-friendly gardening solution. Our approach encourages minimal weeding through the use of mulching techniques.
At Dunmore Country School, we also practice energy transfer in gardening. This means that all organic matter produced in the garden—such as grass clippings, leaves, hedge trimmings, and even weeds—are reused to fertilize vegetable beds. This method helps create areas with varying levels of fertility, from productive vegetable beds to biodiverse meadows, all while reducing the need for chemicals. As a result, our garden remains balanced and supports biodiversity without the use of insecticides or sprays.
Our kitchen garden is focused on homegrown vegetable production for personal consumption, not for market. We prioritize maximizing yield by working in harmony with nature, using techniques like interplanting and intercropping to grow multiple seasonal vegetable crops per year.
At Dunmore Country School, we also understand the importance of cooking and preserving what you grow. During our courses, Isabelle will prepare delicious, fresh, and seasonal lunches using homegrown produce, and we’ll share tips on how to make the most of your harvest with preserving techniques.
Concerned about time and effort? Our sustainable gardening system is designed to be time-efficient and easy to maintain. We show you how to start small, get comfortable with the techniques, and gradually expand your plot while keeping weed control manageable. You’ll learn how to make weeding easy with our no-dig and mulching approaches, ensuring a cost-effective, environmentally friendly method of growing food.
Whether you’re new to gardening or looking to improve your sustainable food production skills, our courses at Dunmore Country School will help you grow tasty vegetables and cultivate a deeper connection with nature. Learn how to create a biodiverse, self-sufficient garden that yields fresh, healthy food all year round.
Visit Our Online Store
Visit Dunmore Country School's online store, where you will find a range of courses and gardening tools. With courses such as Start Your Garden From Scratch, Month To Month Stroll in the Garden, Warré Hive Beekeeping, and French Classes, to mention but a few, there really is something for everyone!
In the spring, we are running online Live Zoom Gardening Courses, so you can still learn how to create and manage a beautiful kitchen garden, with our sustainable no-dig system!
Tanguy can bring his wealth of expertise in your garden and help you make a plan of action. Tanguy de Toulgoët has a strong profile as an environmentalist, educator and gardener. He is a tireless campaigner and advocate of sustainable gardening and has given lectures and talks all over Ireland.
Dunmore Country School have been featured in most of the Irish Newspapers (Irish Times, Irish Independent, The Business Post, Sunday Times, Farmers Journal) and internationally in publications such as the Washington Post.
TV programmes such as "The secret garden" RTE, Nationwide RTE, Queerbet (Germany), Chouette prod (France TV) and books like "From the ground up" Fionnuala Fallon, Irish Gardens (Jane Powers).