Come along with all the family and spend the day at The Husbandry School planting seeds, exploring nature and picking great things to eat!
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 15th March 2025
Saturday 26th April 2025
Saturday 17th May 2025
Saturday 14th June 2025
Saturday 20th September 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price:
£15 for one child
£25 for two children together
£35 for three children together
(Adults & Additional children under 3 go FREE)
Gift Vouchers are available for all our courses and Family Experience Days – and you can specify a course for the recipient, or let them choose for themselves.
From Woodworking to Felting, and Basketry to Belts we’ve got something for everyone!
Learn how to make a Leather Belt using traditional hand tools and the finest materials.
This day course is for beginners and will guide you through every step and stitch.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 15th November 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16
Make a small round basket perfect for collecting berries using traditional stake and strand method and with a variety of willow. You will also be shown how to insert a handle.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 29th March 2025 &
Saturday 27th September 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16
Hedge laying is a skill which is being re-invigorated nowadays with farmers being encouraged to return to the ‘old ways’ of hedgerow management.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm both days
Price: £160 per person
Minimum age: 16
A beginners workshop, especially designed for younger people (aged 10 – 18) and their families to try out green woodworking together. Learn to use a range of hand tools and green woodworking techniques to create a small wooden stool.
2025 Course Dates:
Sunday 27th April 2025
10am – 4pm
Price: £80 for 1 child & 1 adult
*Please note when booking, each 1 place is for both adult and child.*
This course is a lovely and relaxed introduction to wet felting and needle felting embellishments.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 15th November 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16
If you are interested in growing more of the food you eat each week, and wish to do so in a natural, ethical, time-honoured and sustainable way, mindful of the rhythms of nature, then our Husbandry Skills courses are probably for you!
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 28th June 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16
Learn how to weave an obelisk plant support for climbing plants using green willow and a dragonfly sculpture. You will be using a selection of coloured willow to make the obelisk and pre-soaked willow for the dragonfly. All materials included.
2025 Course dates:
Saturday 1st March 2025
Time: 10am-4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16.
Have a days tuition creating a beautiful large sculptured bird from willow and learning the skills to make your own.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 10th May 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16
This is a beginners class, no experience in using wood, knives or axes is necessary. If you have some experience then this will help you progress faster.
2025 Course Dates:
Saturday 13th September 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16.
From gardening tools to kitchen knives and woodworking chisels, this full-day workshop will give you the knowledge to sharpen almost any tool. Bring along your own tools to learn & practice with – and sharpen them!
This workshop is suitable for beginners and for those who want to refine their sharpening techniques.
2025 Course Dates:
Sunday 14th September 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £80 per person
Minimum age: 16.
