| Learning the Good Life offers a rich variety of workshops, courses and demonstrations which embrace living a sustainable lifestyle
and include cooking, gardening, traditional rural crafts and skills, the smallholding, the arts and crafts and the family.
Workshops are held in Lincolnshire. Click here to dowload a printable course booklet. More details... Visit me on Facebook |
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| February | |
Saturday 26 February |
Weave a Willow Frame Basket |
| March | |
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 |
| April | |
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 and sweet breads |
Saturday and Sunday 9/10 April |
Learn to Knit a Guernsey Sweater - weekend course |
Tuesday 12 April |
1/2 day Chicken Keeping Workshop |
Wednesday 13 April |
A Stitch in Time - Patchwork |
| May | |
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 a Scythe and make a Hayrick |
Wednesday 24 May |
Working with Drift wood and Found Objects |
| June | |
Thursday 2 June |
Thursday 2 June - The Basic Loaf - hands on breadmaking workshop |
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 |
Sunday 12 June |
Women's Voices - a relaxed afternoon of literature and history with Helena Whitbread and Valerie Harkness. |
Monday 13 June |
Beginners Digital Photography |
Tuesday 14 June |
Advanced Digital Photography |
Thursday 30 June |
The Healing Garden - The Aromatherapy Garden -Lecture |
| July | |
Thursday 7 July |
Flowers for Celebrations - table decorations, hand-tied bunches, globes, swags |
Saturday 23 July |
An Introduction to Beekeeping |
| September | |
| Thur 1 & Fri 2 September | Student Cookery - learning the basics - 2 day course |
| 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 | Sausage making workshop |
| Wednesday 28 September | Make do and Mend - as 6th April |
| October | |
| 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 | Painting Autumn Flowers |
| Thursday 20 October | Preserving the Harvest |
| Saturday 22 October | An Introduction to Spinning |
| Wednesday 26 October | Make do and Mend - as 6th April |
| November | |
| 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 |
| Thursday 24 November | Christmas wreaths, flowers and decorations |
| Friday 25 November | Gift Wrap Guru |
| Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November | Weave a Cyntell - a large welsh frame basket - advanced weekend course |
| December | |
| 2 December | Make Willow Wreaths and Decorations for Christmas |
Click here to dowload a printable course booklet |
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