Craft Skills for Garden Conservation
▶Summary
Our experiences from previous projects had proved to us that transnational collaboration is valuable. “Differences are a good base for innovation” is a saying we have based some of our EU-funded p...
▶Objectives
Through the CSGC project we aimed to address this problem by identifying best practice in the various fields of Garden Conservation and sharing it through various bodies of Vocational Education and Training as well as professional horticultural associations. Whilst some countries have retained expertise in certain specialisms, others have not and were searching for guidance, whilst yet more have been researching the increasing relevance of historic techniques to our current challenges. This is important knowledge and skills that requires broad dissemination if we are to build and retain the necessary expertise in Europe.