Course listing

Alpacca keeping
A course to address the practical aspects of buying, rearing, clipping and breeding

Bed & Breakfast
A guide to opening your home to paying guests covering the practicalities and legalities plus promotion of your business

Beekeeping
An introduction to all things apian: from choosing the hive to harvesting the honey

Chainsaw use and safety
The essential introduction to safe chainsaw handling at reasonable cost

Dairy products
An introduction to making the most of your excess milk production including soft cheese, yoghurt, ice-cream and butter production

Goatkeeping and management
Everything you need to know about buying, keeping and breeding goats, including handling and milking

Hurdlemaking
Beautiful and functional, traditional hazel hurdlemaking from scratch for smallholding or garden

Introduction to poultry
Pracical advice on breeds and systems for your own egg and table poultry production

Lamb butchery
Turn your carcase into professionally presented joints with this hands-on introduction

Lambing
Lambing skills and techniques for beginners and more experienced sheep owners

Lambskins for clothing
Turning your skins into functional and funky clothing

Organic smallholding
Practical introduction to maximise return from your land in harmony with the environment

Sheep shearing
Top to tail techniques for a clean sheep shave!

Sheep tasks
Everything and more you wanted to know about the practicalities of keeping sheep

Showing cattle
A practical introduction in the art of preparing stock for the show ring

Showing sheep
A practical introduction in the art of preparing stock for the show ring

Soap making
Turn oils and fats into deliciously fragranced designer soaps using traditional techniques

Traditional pig keeping
All you need to know about buying, keeping and breeding pigs including rearing your first weaners