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  • PIG-KEEPING - introduction

    This one-day course aims to cover all the things you need to know before starting to keep a few...

    £75 to include lunch and all other refreshments
    Kevin Blundell
    13 February 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Loom Weaving & Fabric Design

    Loom Weaving and Fabric Design with Janet Phillips (Click on her name above...

    £375 to include home-made lunch etc. Materials £15, to be paid at the time of the course
    Janet Phillips
    21 February 2011 - 25 February 2011
    9am - 9pm (finishes after lunch on Friday)
  • Willow for the Garden

    Willow is a beautiful and sustainable art material with limitless possibilities.

    Enjoy a...
    £145 for two days, including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    Sandra Barker
    5 March 2011 - 6 March 2011
    10.00 - 4.30
  • Garden Machinery maintenance

    Fed up with lawnmowers, strimmers & hedgecutters that won't start in the springtime after a...

    £70 including lunch & all materials
    Simon Millyard
    20 March 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Hen Keeping in Your Garden

    This one-day course is designed for those who want to keep a few hens in the garden.

    In...

    £65 including lunch
    Francine Raymond
    3 April 2011
    10 - 4
  • Bricklaying for amateurs

    Learn how to build your own garden walls, bases for sheds, plinths,  etc. with the help of...

    £70 including home-made lunch etc.
    Mac Knox Weir
    3 April 2011
    9 - 4.30
  • Stained glass

    A great introduction to stained glass of all sorts of colours and textures.

    £150 including £22 worth of materials & home-made lunches etc.
    Anna Conti
    9 April 2011 - 10 April 2011
    10.00 - 4.00
  • Sheep for smallholders

    This is a one-day introduction for those who would like to keep a few sheep and will be led by...

    £75 including home-made lunch etc.
    Alan Adcock - sheep
    16 April 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Fly fishing for absolute beginners

    This course is designed for absolute beginners and includes :

    £75 including home-made lunch, biscuits and cakes
    John Lattimore
    30 April 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Coracle making
    We shall be making a coracle (for you to take home) based on traditional Welsh styles, with the...
    £220 for three days, including lunch. Materials will come to about £75 and we will take payment on the day.
    Alistair Phillips BSc
    6 May 2011 - 8 May 2011
    9.00 - 5.00
  • Beekeeping - Queen Rearing

    A new and unusual opportunity for all our beekeepers!  Come and learn how to rear your own...

    £130 for two days, including lunch and all refreshments
    Clive de Bruyn
    14 May 2011 - 15 May 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Food for Free

    Identify, learn about, gather and cook edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of our...

    £55 including home made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    Ian Rose, Emma Eastham & Malcolm Bendall
    21 May 2011
    10.00 - 16.30
  • Badgers

    Spend an afternoon and evening learning about the life cycle and habits of badgers,  how to...

    £75 including high tea (salads, scones & cakes etc.)
    Bob Cowlin
    22 May 2011
    2.30 - 9.30 (depending on the badgers/weather)
  • Fruit Tree Pruning

    A one-day course to explain the principles of fruit tree pruning, the use of tools and how to...

    £70 including lunch
    Chris Heseltine
    4 June 2011
    10.00 - 16.30
  • Fly fishing for absolute beginners

    This course is designed for absolute beginners and includes :

    £75 including home-made lunch, biscuits and cakes
    John Lattimore
    5 June 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Clay oven making

    Food baked in a clay oven tastes quite different to food baked in a normal oven.  This is...

    £80 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes etc.
    Jon Dyvig
    12 June 2011
    10 - 4.00
  • Bread Making - beginners

    Beginner’s Bread-making John Lawrence will be running a one-day course to help people to...

    £80 including lunch (materials £7, to be paid on the day)
    John Lawrence
    12 June 2011
    10 - 4.30
  • Photography - nature & landscapes


    Get up to speed in time for the summer holidays!  An outstanding photographic...

    £140 for the two days, including home-made lunch and all other refreshments
    Jon Sturdy
    9 July 2011 - 10 July 2011
    10.00 on Saturday - 4.00 on Sunday
  • Clay oven making

    Food baked in a clay oven tastes quite different to food baked in a normal oven.  This is...

    £80 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes etc.
    Jon Dyvig
    24 July 2011
    10 - 4.00