| 2011 Course Dates |
Saturday 26 February |
Weave a Willow Frame Basket |
Saturday 5 March |
Planting and Maintaining a Willow Coppice |
Sunday 6 March |
Hurdle Making with Willow |
Sunday 13th March |
There is an Art to burning Wood for Heating |
Tuesday 15 March |
The Medieval Garden - Lecture Day |
Monday 21 March |
The Grand Tour - Lecture Day |
Wednesday 23 March |
Learn to Knit |
Thursday 24 March |
The Basic Loaf - Sourdough - Hands on Workshop |
Saturday 26 March |
Grow a Kitchen Garden in Containers |
Tuesday 29 March |
Painting Spring Flowers |
Thursday 31 March |
The Cutting Patch - Creating a Cut Flower Garden |
Friday 1 April |
Weave a Willow Frame Basket |
Saturday 2 April |
The Poison Garden - Is that Cat Dead and All You Need to Know about Poison Plants |
Saturday 2 & 3 April |
Weave a Large Willow Frame Basket or Cyntel - Advanced |
Wednesday 6 April
|
Make do and Mend - Supervised Mending Workshop - bring along anything that needs mending and be guided on how to repair and renovate |
Thursday 7 April |
The Basic Loaf - Bread for Easter - Demonstration Hotcross Buns etc |
Saturday and Sunday
9/10 April
|
Learn to Knit - weekend course |
Tuesday 12 April |
1/2 day Chicken Keeping Workshop |
Wednesday 13 April |
A Stitch in Time - Patchwork |
Saturday 30 April |
The Square Foot Vegetable Garden |
Wednesday 4 May |
Make Do and Mend - as 6th April |
Friday 6 May |
Sculputure with Willow |
Saturday 7 May |
Swish into Style - an Eco-Glam Event |
Friday 13 May |
Create a Sensory Garden |
14 and 15 May |
Make a Rustic Ladderback Chair |
Tuesday 17 May |
Painting Summer Flowers |
Wednesday 18 May |
The Healing Garden - the Natural Medicine Cabinet |
Friday 20 May |
Learn to Use Lime Mortar |
Sat 21 May |
Learn to Use and Maintain a Scythe |
Wednesday 24 May |
Working with Drift wood and Found Objects |
Thursday 2 June |
The Basic Loaf - Hands on Workshop |
Monday 6 June |
Beginners Digital Photography |
Tuesday 7 June |
Advanced Digital Photography |
Wednesday 8 June |
Make Do and Mend - as 6th April |
Thursday 9 June
|
The Art of Chocolate Making |
Saturday 11 June
|
The Healing Garden - Woman's Natural Health - herbs to enhance your health and wellbeing |
Saturday 12 June
|
Foreign Voices in Poetry - an afternoon of poetry reading in French and in English |
Thursday 30 June |
The Healing Garden - The Aromatherapy Garden -Lecture |
Thursday 7 July
|
Flowers for Celebrations - table decorations, hand-tied bunches, globes, swags |
Saturday 23 July |
An Introduction to Beekeeping |
| Thur 1 & Fri 2 September |
Student Cookery - learning the basics |
| Thursday 8 September |
Talking Compost |
| Thursday 8 September |
Food for Free |
| Friday 9 September |
Learn to Scythe and make a Hayrick |
| Tuesday 13 September |
1/2 day Chicken Keeping Workshop |
| Saturday 17 September |
All about Composting and Green Manures |
| Friday 23 September |
The Poison Garden - all your questions answered |
| Saturday 24 September |
Making Sausages |
| Wednesday 28 September |
Make do and Mend - as 6th April |
| Friday 30th September |
The Basic Loaf - patisserie - a demonstration |
| Saturday 1 October |
Rag Rugs |
| Tuesday 4 October |
Advanced Digital Photography |
| 7 and 8 October |
Make a Rustic Ladderback Chair |
| Thursday 13 October |
The Art of Chocolate Making |
| Friday 14 October |
An introduction to green wood working |
| Saturday 15 October |
The Healing Garden - Blues and Flus - winter health |
| Sunday 16 October |
Orchard Management and handling, storing, preserving the harvest |
| Tuesday 18 October |
Paining Autumn Flowers |
| Thursday 20 October |
Preserving the Harvest |
| Wednesday 26 October |
Make do and Mend - as 6th April |
| Tuesday 1 November |
The Country House Garden - Lecture Day |
| Friday 4 November |
Pruning |
| Saturday 5 November |
The Truth about Peonies - lecture and practical |
| Friday 11 November |
Weave a willow frame basket |
| Saturday 12 November |
The Art of Burning Wood for Heating |
| Tuesday 15 November |
Arts and Crafts - Lecture Day |
| Wednesday 16 November |
A Stitch in Time - use a beloved, old jumper to make a cosy hot water bottle cover, a great Christmas present |
| Wednesday 23 November |
Driftwood wreaths, Christmas Trees and Decorations |
| Thursday 24 November |
Christmas Flowers and Decorations- lots of new ideas to inspire |
| Friday 25 November |
Gift Wrap Guru |
| 2 December 2011 |
Make Willow Wreaths and Decorations for Christmas |
