Smallholding Courses – December 2010

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Smallholding courses that are running throughout December 2010:

• A smallholding course – the perfect Christmas gift Christmas is the time when folk take stock and decide whether this new year will see them putting those dreams into practice; and one of the most popular dreams for people living in hectic times is a life of self sufficiency and smallholding. With twen...
• Bill at Moons Green 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-range...
• Build Your Own Beehiive for Natural Bee Keeping New date for 2012  Sunday 13th May  This is a day workshop where you will under supervision, make your own Warré top bar beehive. Using a Warre hive is less invasive, uses less time and equipment and less cost than conventional beekee...
• Bursaries for smallholders in the South West Here at South Yeo Farm West we are delighted to say that smallholders with a CPH holding number who are based in the South West region are eligible for a 50% bursary for any of our smallholding courses up to July 2011. This includes our Introduction to S...
• Cambridge Sustainability Centre Our mission is to help people gain the skills and confidence to live their lives more sustainably and to love doing it. We run courses on our organic family farm just outside Cambridge (UK) in beautiful countryside on the edge of the Fens....
• Cathy Cassie – Hazelwood Livestock 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.
• Cattle for beginners – Devon Are you thinking about taking on your first house cow or small herd of cattle? Do you want to spend a day with cattle and a farmer who will share a deep understanding of her herd to give you a real feel for what it would be like to have cattle of your ...
• Chicken House Automatic Door Openers Latest listings of poultry housing automatic door openers // ...
• Christmas gift ideas ... but of course! Booking someone onto a training course, or giving them a gift voucher for a course is certainly a great Christmas gift idea. There are lots of different courses and workshops available at Smallholding Courses so you're bound to find one to suit that speci...
• EasTec 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.
• Gardenfarming 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
• Green Scythe Fair Sunday 13 June 2010 Somerset Levels Scything Debate and Saving the planet on the Somerset Levels The Green Scythe Fair – 12/13th June 2010 Listen, can you hear the swish, the sound of steel upon swathe; reapers rhythmically moving through the landscape in the shimmering summer heat; m...
• Grow your own - gardening tips for March   Some gardening tips and reminders for March: If you've been chitting your potatoes, then you can start planting them around mid March. Any leeks left should come up now. Any parsnips left should come up now. You can start sowing your b...
• Happy New Year! It's here! 2011 has arrived! A warm, Happy New Year to you! Smallholding Courses reflects on 2010 Smallholding Courses has grown considerably in the last 12 months, and we hope to grow considerably more in the next 12 months too! The site has underg...
• Hendra Farm 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 magnificent S...
• Hens For Homes 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 are ...
• Introduction to Smallholding weekends in Devon 2011 Are you thinking about taking on some livestock for the first time? Have you got an extra large garden or a bit of acreage that needs using? Do you want to know more about smallholding before taking the plunge? Have you taken the smallholding plunge bu...
• Keeping Chickens / Keeping Poultry We have many smallholding course providers here at Smallholding Courses who provide hands-on chicken keeping and poultry keeping courses. A course in practical chicken / poultry keeping gives you the opportunity to learn from experienced chicken keepe...
• Keeping chickens in the garden Keeping chickens in the garden is now a very popular hobby and comes with many benefits, not least yummy eggs! But where do you s...
• Keeping Pigs We have many smallholding course providers here at Smallholding Courses who provide hands-on pig keeping courses. A course in practical pig keeping gives you the opportunity to learn from experienced pig keepers / breeders who are happy to share the...
• Latest Hen House and Chicken Coop Sales Latest listings of hen houses and chicken coops for sale There are various outlets where you can purchase hen houses and chicken coops - including online! // ...
• Latest News from Mumbleys Farmhouse The Arrival of Jack & Ace We have decided to keep our own Shetland Bull as they are difficult to find, particularly if you want a red and white one, which is very rare and can be a bit inbred.  We have bought a calf born this year, who will be...
• Latest News from Smallholding Courses June 2010 Hello friends, Here's the latest news from SmallholdingCourses.co.uk: Smallholding Courses June 2010 Take a look at all the smallholders courses that are running this month! Spread the Word about Smallholding Courses ...
• Leonard Cottage Rural Training Centre 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 skill...
• Lifetime Membership at Smallholding Courses Lifetime Membership at Smallholding Courses entitles you to upload an unlimited number of appropriate ads to the Smallholding Courses website any time throughout your lifetime membership – year after year. Promote your smallholding-related courses a...
• LILI 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 onli...
• Livanti Alpacas 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 alpa...
• Monkton Wyld Court 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.
• Monkton Wyld Court Monkton Wyld Court is an organic smallholding and educational charity on the site of a Victorian rectory in South West Dorset. An intentional community made up of anywhere from ten to twenty residents and volunteers, we grow veg in our walled kitchen gard...
• Mumbleys Farmhouse 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 wanted ...
• Mumbleys Farmhouse Latest News Welcome to the first edition of my new newsletter. This is in response to all the people who have been on our courses who want to keep in touch and all the people who have been unable to get places, but who want to be kept up to date with availability...
• New course dates from Empire Farm Sally Morgan of Empire Farm has published the latest dates for courses at the farm school. The ever-popular Curing and Smoking Day has two new dates, as has the Hands-on Butchery Day. Coming up in March are the back-to-back Poultry and Pig Courses, ideal ...
• Oaklands Pigs 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 Japa...
• Pig & Smallholder Courses in the South 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 the ...
• Pig Courses at Tedfold Cottage Farm Let the team at Tedfold Cottage Farm show you how to keep pigs healthy and safe. Our one-day courses are 50:50 theory and hands-on. We believe that you can read when you like but cannot always handle pigs when you like so our emphasis is on the hands-on. ...
• Pig Keeping Courses For All "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 pig k...
• Preparation for Lambing, weds 17th January 2012 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 num...
• Saving Rare Breeds Saving Rare Breeds has been established to help preserve our farming heritage, native breeds, wildlife and provide a sanctuary for neglected or abandoned farm animals.  At Saving Rare Breeds we farm using traditional methods, organically and ...
• Smallholder course providers offering smallholding experience holidays! SmallholdingCourses.co.uk is now promoting Smallholding Experience Holidays! It's a very new feature to the site but we expect it to grow, in a self-sufficiently manner, of course! :-D If you're thinking about plunging into the world of running a s...
• Smallholder Courses September 2011 Here are the latest smallholder courses being held in September 2011 by smallholder training course providers listed on the SmallholdingCourses.co.uk website: Smallholder Courses September 2011    ...
• Smallholder Training / Smallholding Training Smallholder Training / Smallholding Training - managing your own smallholding At Smallholding Courses you'll find a variety of courses dedicated to smallholding training / smallholder training on offer throughout the UK. There are obviously lots of fac...
• Smallholder Training Courses Smallholder training courses - find a smallholder training course at SmallholdingCourses.co.uk SmallholdingCourses.co.uk is the UK's leading directory of smallholding courses, craft and heritage courses, and other smallholding-related courses. Smal...
• Smallholder Workshops A variety of smallholder workshops and smallholder training courses are to be found at SmallholdingCourses.co.uk. Whatever elements you want to pursue on your own smallholding, then you'll find a smallholder course that covers it, here at Smallholding...
• Smallholdertraining.co.uk – courses for 2011 in Devon What a year it's been at South Yeo Farm West - we've met so many budding smallholders and made heaps of new friends, many of whom keep in regular contact and send us photos of their new ventures -  new smallholdings, new livestock, new dreams. We've sort...
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• Smallholding Management Course Smallholding Management Diploma - Course Description The course will provide students with a sound understanding of all aspects involved with managing your own small hold, ranging from designing the build right through to marketing your service. ...
• Smallholding skills There are various elements to running a smallholding - and those elements are decided by you, depending on what you want to do with your smallholding. Arming yourself with smallholding skills will help you run your smallholding more smoothly, efficient...
• SOUTH YEO FARM EAST – Rare and Traditional Breeds – located in beautiful mid Devon '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 Devo...
• SOUTH YEO FARM WEST (Devon) 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 ensure w...
• Sue Lang at The Beesness Sue Lang from The Beesness is an experienced beekeeper who also makes preserves and teaches a wide variety of beekeeping and cookery courses. She started beekeeping in 2006 with her husband, but as they were thrown in the deep end from the very start, t...
• Sustainable building and technology courses now available Smallholding Courses are pleased to announce that Sustainable Building and Technology Courses are available via the SmallholdingCourses.co.uk website. To view all courses currently listed in the Sustainable Building and Technology Courses category ...
• Take the first step towards owning alpacas Take the first step towards owning alpacas You’ve probably been looking at alpacas in the field down the road or at the local agricultural show and thinking how good it would be to have some; but where to start? You’ve so many questions! A great pla...
• The Beauty of Whittling- aka Greenwood Spoon Carving tHIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN FOR THE MONTHLY PUBLICATION 'HOME FARMER MAGAZINE'  BY EDITOR  PAUL MELNYCZUK AND IN CONTAINS SOME WONDERFUL COLOUR IMAGES - A MAG, SIMILAR TO THIS SITE, DESIGNED FOR SMALLHOLDERS.  SPOON WHITTLING DAY COURSES David...
• The Empire Farm School 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 man...
• The Importance of Being Fenced Next time you are out about in the countryside, spare a little time and cast your eye over the local fencing. How often do you see hedge holes being plugged by bits of corrugated tin? Or simply the fact that a whole section of fence has simply fallen ...
• This Little Piggy! This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed at home. This little piggy, however, enjoys living with a Lincolnshire family who has recently discovered how easy it is to add livestock to their smallholding. This month we investigate the pros ...
• Villageways 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. ...
• Whittaker Equestrian and Countryside Consultancy Henry Whittaker who holds a Degree in Law and a MSc in Environmental Management and Conservation started his own consultancy and training business, Whittaker Equestrian and Countryside Consultancy (WECC) in 2008. Previous to this he had worked for The Bri...
• Wool and Feathers - Hen keeping and Feltmaking Wool and Feathers is based on a 5 acre smallholding and we offer 2 types of CHICKEN KEEPING COURSES and FELTMAKING COURSES.  The first of our CHICKEN COURSES is for complete beginners  and the second course is more advanced for those wishing to ...