ECO-CONSCIOUS visitors can learn how to grow their own food at a mother-and-daughter-run 'green' tourism firm.

Maggie Peet, aged 55, and Emily Whitehead, aged 36, who run Simply Staffordshire in Alton, are introducing two day courses on growing your own food and green housekeeping.

They will take place at Rowan House, Simply Staffordshire's environmentally-friendly four-star holiday cottage, and in its organic garden, which has featured on BBC2 show It's Not Easy Being Green.

Emily said the new courses would appeal to people striving to cut costs and learn new skills during the economic downturn.

She said: "Growing some of your own food can be a positive way to eat well, save money, get fresh air and create a feel-good factor.

"Learning to clean your home with fewer chemicals can improve well-being and save money into the bargain."

Emily is pictured making an eco-friendly cleaner from lemon and bicarbonate of soda, and, inset, in the organic vegetable garden.

Pictures: Cara Edgington