A-Z of Course Providers
Directory of rural course providers for smallholders and their smallholdings, and those seeking a more sustainable lifestyle.
Please note that not all of our course providers have submitted their details to this page – thank you.
We are an unlikely trio at Moons Green – a Kentisk stockman, a New Zealand foodie and a Moonraker art director…and of course the irrepressible Crumble. Together we hold well structured training courses, specialising in keeping Outdoor Pigs, Free-ra... Cathy is a full-time shepherdess, working alongside husband Darren and his father Brian on their part-time farm in Leicestershire, and also managing the conservation-grazing flocks on the nature reserves for the Wildlife trust in Northamptonshire. Chainsaws, ATV, Poultry, Pigs, Pesticides and Pest Control Courses. EasTec is a Lantra registered training provider that offers both practical and legislative training at competitive prices. Formerly an agricultural college tutor and on farm assessor with one of the country's top land based colleges, a full scale mixed farmer, on farm advisor and self sufficiency lifestyle follower of almost 25 years I If you are looking for a taste of the 'good life' in the beautiful Cornish countryside then Hendra Farm is the place for you...
We operate a traditional smallholding set deep in the South East Cornwall countryside which is home to our magnificen... At hens for homes we specialize in teaching beginners and organizations how to choose and care for chickens. We welcome and encourage the whole family to come along to choose their hens.
We hold beginners sessions twice a month, these sessions a... Leonard Cottage Rural Training Centre is based in Boston, Lincolnshire. The facility has been created to provide a wide range of practical courses and training days for those who want to learn about traditional crafts, animal husbandry, rural sk... LILI is a non-profit organisation promoting practical ways you can reduce your impact on the environment, learn new skills, save money and have fun. Contact us to find out more about our residential weekend courses, manuals and books, factsheets, and o... Liz, a farmers daughter, began breeding alpacas in 1999. What started out as a possible retirement income and hobby soon became her full time occupation!
Liz runs Livanti Alpacas in rural Buckinghamshire, where she breeds high quality pedigree a... Monkton Wyld Court is an intentional community run centre for sustainable living in beautiful southwest Dorset. We run a variety of residential and day courses throughout the year, many of which promote smallholding skills. Perhaps you have always dreamed of escaping the rat race and running your own smallholding or maybe you would just like a few colourful chickens laying fresh brown eggs in a pretty little hen house at the end of the garden. Maybe you have always want... 50 adults, 12 breeds, 3 litters a month. For a truly comprehensive pig course visit Oaklands Pigs. There's loads to see. Oaklands Pigs have been running courses now, for 4 years with 100's of satisfied customers from both the UK and as far a field as J... Tedfold Cottage Farm
We are Neil, Michaela and Oliver Giles, a small family run smallholding on the Sussex / Surrey border and near a direct train service from London Victoria. We specialise in and exhibit British Saddleback pigs with an emphasis on t... "Our aim is to give people the confidence in handling pigs and to educate them in successful ways of keeping pigs."
Where are we?We are based in Lowick in the beautiful Lake District at the Southern end of Coniston Water.
What do we do? We offer pi... Shepherdess Cathy Cassie hosts a brand new course for 2012, focussing on preparation for lambing, covering feeding the in-lamb ewe, preparing your lambing areas, what to expect, what to avoid, and how to deal with the unexpected! There will be a small ... 'South Yeo Farm East' is a small farm in the heart of Devon's Tarka country. We, Ian and Gillian Dixon, live and work on the farm along with our ever growing menagerie... The farm has been in the family for 3 generations and our home, a traditional D... South Yeo Farm West is in Devon on the Dartmoor fringe, six miles from Okehampton. It's a beautiful farm in the Culm Measures, with abundant wildlife, supported through a ten year agreement with DEFRA under the Higher Level Stewardship scheme to ensur... The Empire Farm School was established in 2006 by Sally and Adrian Morgan. Sally and Adrian have been smallholders for more than 15 years. They moved from their 3 acre smallholding in Hampshire to Somerset in 2004. The farm is now fullY organic and ... First, who the hen-pecked are we???? :-D We're Mark and Anita and our passion is smallholdings and a self-sufficient lifestyle. We're not rigid in our thoughts. We're real in what we know we can achieve and how to achieve it, and we're happy with that....
