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You’re a grower searching for a deeper connection with nature and a simpler, sustainable, and more instinctive way of gardening.
We’ll show you how to create the ideal habitat to allow soil microorganisms to do what they do best: Grow nutrient-dense fruit and vegetables and vibrant flowers. And we’ll make sure you have some fun along the way.
Award-winning RhizoPhyllia’s workshops train you to understand soil microorganisms and their key functions in plant health and give you the confidence to apply the science in your garden.
Join us in our kitchen garden in Royal Wootton Bassett, North Wiltshire, where no dig meets the microbes.
You’ve probably heard of the gut microbiome—trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in the gut and help maintain overall health. Like the gut, soil has its own microbiome, and keeping it healthy is essential to promoting robust plant growth and disease resistance.
The Soil Food Web is the living part of the soil made up of microscopic creatures such as bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, microarthropods and fungi, as well as earthworms, spiders and insects.
Our workshops will help you put carbon and life back in the ground and regenerate yourself as much as your soil.
You may be a keen home gardener, a professional grower, a career-changer drawn to nature, or striving to be self-sufficient from your allotment. We welcome gardeners from all walks of life who want to apply natural biology to soil health and growing.
Our approach will help you see your soil as nature means for it to be and grow plants as nature intended.
Understand the vital role and skills of soil microbes in the growth and health of your plants. Learn how to create the perfect habitat and conditions that allow microbes to eliminate pests and diseases and produce nutritious fruit, veg and beautiful blooms.
Thinking of buying a microscope? Learn the essentials of the soil food web and how to use a microscope to do your own soil health monitoring and microbial investigations.
Learn how to rehabilitate degraded soil and return the missing microbes. This is the hands-on way to create biodiverse designer composts and biologically rich extracts and teas.
Or complete all 3 courses as part of our certificated package!
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This is for corporate team building or parties only. It’s something different that might just change your life! We cover all the basics of soil and foliage microbes in our one-day introduction to the concepts of the soil food web.
Have RhizoPhyllia come to you! We give talks and demonstrations and we can adapt our courses to deliver a bespoke RhizoPhyllia experience where you are.
We’ve run workshops at River Cottage, talked at the Soil Association, presented at RHS Tatton Flower Show and RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.
In July 2024 we delivered a Show Feature Activity at Hampton Court, a garden trail exploring The Evolution of Plants.
We’re also proud to partner with Beth Chatto’s Plants & Gardens to support them in developing home-grown, peat-free compost. We are involved in their Educational Trust, presented at the 2024 ‘Beneath The Surface’ Beth Chatto Symposium.
We are working with The Country Trust to promote their Plant Your Pants schools initiative, and the Wildlife Trust’s member organisations, through our sister company The BioCharged Compost Company to develop local, sustainably sourced peat-free composts and extracts.
We’re a diverse bunch, but we have one thing in common: A passion for revolutionising the way the world grows plants to benefit the health of soil, humans, and the planet.
A Chartered Geologist, Soil Food Web specialist, and founder of RhizoPhyllia, Eddie is our chief educator and trainer. There’s not much Eddie doesn’t know (and love) about geology and soil biology, and his enthusiasm and depth of knowledge are captivating. Listen to Eddie, and you’re guaranteed to feel inspired and find a fascination for science and soil you didn’t know you had.
With a keen interest in heritage varieties, and having recently completed her RHS Level 2,Principles and Practice of Plant Growth and Development, our gardener, Liberty, keeps the vegetable plot and polytunnel filled, happy, and flourishing. Liberty is also being trained in-house in the Soil Food Web approach.
A RhizoPhyllia partner who tends to the business, commercial and marketing side of things (and Eddie’s eldest son) Harry keeps everything running smoothly and Eddie on the ground. Harry is driving RhizoPhyllia to be the solution to regenerative growing, and sustainability. You’ll see him looking sharp at all our events, and he might even make you a proper coffee.
At RhizoPhyllia we eat what we preach. When you come to our workshops, you’ll be treated to next-level delicious, plant-based lunches and teas prepared by our Vegan-Natural Chef, Courtney. Courtney honed her culinary talent at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London and is expanding her repertoire as a full-life Health Coach.
As well as my upcoming workshops dates, you can get information, tips and stories from my back-garden allotment straight into your inbox.