home and Garden Courses
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Learn new and improve your existing skills in growing your own food and making compost with our gardening courses. Our expert tutors will pass on their knowledge and help you create a more productive garden. Find out how to make your own pizza oven with natural building techniques and get practical knowledge on compost toilets.

Gardening in a changing climate

Discover how carefully selected planting true to a particular soil type can behave as a natural landscape saving the need to artificially suspend the garden with extra watering and soil enrichment.  Tom Nielsen's own garden was featured on BBC Gardeners' World this year.

Clay Oven Building Course

Learn the techniques to build a clay oven at our beautiful site in the Hampshire South Downs. ​

Compost Toilets course

Learn how to design, build and manage your own back garden indoor and outdoor composting toilet.

composting masterclass

​A one day course teaching you everything you need to know to make your own high quality garden compost.

Introduction to permaculture design

This 4 day course is designed to introduce Permaculture principles but with an emphasis on supporting participants with designing their own homes and gardens.  Aranya will cover the key principles of Permaculture design theory and how we can apply them in redesigning our homes and gardens to be both more sustainable and abundant. 

Kitchen Gardening Course

4 day course, split over two weekends, on creating and managing a successful and abundant food garden. 

Mushroom cultivation course

This comprehensive one day workshop aims to provide participants with practical skills in mushroom cultivation, covering various techniques such as log-drilling, cutting, totem pole inoculation, and turning your garden buckets into a home for mushrooms. 

Natural cleaning workshop

A one day workshop - learn how to make a variety of tried and tested recipes to enable you to start making your own natural cleaning products from simple ingredients that can be found in your cupboards or easily and cheaply bought. 

10% Accommodation discount offer

You can get 10% discount when you stay with us during your course for 2 nights or more in our campsite or eco lodge. Please call us on 01730 823166 to make your accommodation booking. Our reception is open Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm.

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