Adult Courses Diary |
2024
September
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Men's Woodland Bushcraft Retreat
One Place Available £80 Saturday 28th September 2024 |
Learn tree and plant identification, wild foods, and herbal medicine. Explore ways of creating natural cordage using plants found on our walk. After a campfire lunch amongst the trees, discover methods of tarp rigging and different fire lays.
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october
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Introduction to Permaculture Design Course
Places Available £330 Reserve a place for £75 Thursday 3rd - Sunday 6th October 2024 |
This course is designed to introduce Permaculture principles but with an emphasis on supporting participants with designing their own homes and gardens. Aranya shows you how to apply Permaculture design to our lifestyles and homes to be both more sustainable and abundant.
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Climbing Frames, Ropes and Ladders Course
with Jon Cree Places Available £100 Saturday 12th October 2024 |
Build your own play structures with rope, wood and other natural materials. This course is for educators aiming to be more adventurous with creative play structures and combining these with the natural features of your site.
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Coppicing Course
Sold Out £120 Thursday 24th or Friday 25th October 2024 |
Learn practical, hands on experience in the traditional art of coppicing. Working in pairs using traditional hand tools such as billhooks and bow saws, you will cut the stools and drift the rods, layering in order to allow new plants and habitats to form.
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Fabric Baskets Course
Places Available £95 Saturday 26th October 2024 |
Upcycle pre-loved clothing or favourite fabrics to make beautiful coiled fabric baskets. Make use of your children’s outgrown outfits or your partner’s favourite old shirts and turn the materials into a decorative basket of memories for your home.
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November
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Natural Cosmetics Workshop: Herbal Bathroom Day
Places Available £95 Saturday 9th November 2024 |
This fun Herbal Bathroom Day contains a blend of makes from our popular Natural Cosmetic Workshop weekends and has been designed for those who haven't previously attended. Enjoy a friendly and informative day of hands-on makes to take home.
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Natural Cleaning Course
Sold Out £95 Sunday 10th November 2024 |
This workshop will give you practical experience in making a variety of products to take home with you along with detailed handouts. Kinder to you, the earth and your purse, these products are quick, easy and fun to make and save on single-use plastic.
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Forest School Leader Training Course
Places Available £1180 (reserve a place for £200) Starting: Wednesday 13th November 2024 |
This modular training course is essential for anyone wishing to lead Forest School programmes in their own setting. It covers learning theory and practical skills, plus gives participants the confidence and knowledge needed to establish and deliver their own Forest School programmes.
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Willow Garden Sculpture Course
Sold Out - next courses Thursday 9th or Friday 10th January 2025 £95 Thursday 21st November 2024 |
Learn how to willow weave a sculpture for your garden on this craft course in the Hampshire South Downs. Choose what you would like to weave from a small animal to an abstract form. Previous participants have made: dragonflies, hearts, foxes, chickens and pheasants. This training course will take place indoors.
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December
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Willow Festive Trees Workshop
Sold Out £45 Thursday 5th December 2024 |
Learn how to weave a cute little willow tree for your home on this craft workshop in the Hampshire South Downs. Use natural sustainable materials to decorate your home for the festive period or to make as a beautiful gift for a loved one.
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2025
JaNUARY
FEBRUARY
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Natural Cosmetics Workshop
Places Available £95 Saturday 22nd and/or Sunday 23rd February 2025 |
We will be making a variety of products including balms, oils, hair conditioner and toothpaste. Products that are kind to you, the earth, reduce single-use plastic and will save you pennies. Perfect to make for yourself or to give as gifts.
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march
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Kitchen Gardening
Places Available £350 Two weekends: 15th & 16th March and 7th & 8th June 2025 |
A four day course, split over two weekends, on creating and managing a successful and abundant food garden. The course will include hands-on practical sessions and all the theory you need to make your kitchen garden grow and keep your larder full.
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Willow Frame Basket Course
Places Available £100 Friday 28th March 2025 |
Willow weaving training course in the Hampshire South Downs. Participants will make a hand woven gypsy style frame basket from sustainable willow. Use your basket for gathering berries, mushrooms, eggs, herbs or displaying treasures.
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April
may
june
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Kitchen Gardening
Places Available £350 Two weekends: 15th & 16th March and 7th & 8th June 2025 |
A four day course, split over two weekends, on creating and managing a successful and abundant food garden. The course will include hands-on practical sessions and all the theory you need to make your kitchen garden grow and keep your larder full.
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Medicinal Herb Workshop
(Summer) Places Available £90 Saturday 28th June 2025 |
Summer Herb Workshop - Herb-infused oils, first aid balm and herbal infusions
Summer not only gifts us with longer, sunnier days but the hedgerows, fields, gardens, and green spaces offer up an abundance of wild medicinal flora and fauna. |
September
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Medicinal Herb Workshop
(Autumn) Places Available £90 Saturday 13th September 2025 |
Autumn offers us the opportunity to be gathering in the hips, haws, berries and roots that adorn our hedgerows and greenspaces at this time of year. Gifts from nature that enable us to prepare remedies and tonics for the colder months ahead.
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