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| Saturday October 18th 2008 |
Gluten
& Dairy Free Cooking-
with CAROLINE HOCKLEY Time: 10 - 2 Cost: £58
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| October 27th 2008 | Kids Halloween Cooking 8-11yrs A CHILDRENS
COOKING DAY.
Includes
all ingredients with lots to take home to eat!
Cost: £35 Time 10 - 1pm At
The Organic Farm Shop Green Kitchen.
Booking
and payment to be made through the Organic Shop by phone, email
or in person
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| October 31st 2008
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Kids Halloween Cooking 12-15yrs A CHILDRENS
COOKING DAY.
Includes
all ingredients with lots to take home to eat!
Cost:
£35
Time
10 - 1pm
At
The Organic Farm Shop Green Kitchen.
Booking
and payment to be made through the Organic Shop by phone, email
or in person
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| November 15th 2008 | Gourmet Vegetarian Christmas - learn to cook 3 delicious festive dishes to take home Includes all organic ingredients. Time 10 - tbc Cost: £65 Booking and payment to be made through the Organic Shop by phone, email or in person for christmas day.
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Unless otherwise shown the courses above are being run by Caroline Hockley H.N.D(dist)Cert Ed. BSc. Nutritional medicine is an experienced teacher and nutritionalist. Later on in the year we will have some guest teachers so keep watching this page.
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The Green Kitchen has been opened to promote the teaching of organic healthy and seasonal food. If you are interested in learning about a particular aspect of cooking seasonally for health of us and our planet do let us know.
GENERAL WORKSHOPS/COURSES THIS YEAR
DYEING WITH LOCAL AND NATURAL DYES - tentative date of 11th october 2008
learn the techniques of preparing wool for dyeing (mordanting) where necessary, and dyeing abbey home farms own organically produced fleece, and also knitting wool from the farm. Information on different types of natural dyeing materials. Peg loom weaving will be included during the day, to demonstrate one of the uses of dyed fleece. Time permitting we will also forage a little in the hedgerows and experiment!
Cost: £65 includes a light organic lunch
BELOW ARE SOME OF THE COURSES WE HAVE HAD THIS YEAR SO FAR
TO GIVE YOU A TASTE OF WHAT WE OFFER HERE. MORE COURSES WILL BE POSTED HERE IN THE AUTUMN.
TREAT YOURSELF OR A FRIEND TO A WORKSHOP HERE
ON THE FARM THIS YEAR. (Gift vouchers available)
Small friendly groups of between 6 and 12 people.
NB Join the Soil Association this year and you will be offered a FREE course where
mentioned below.
The
Knitty Gritty! - Knitting
for beginners.
Join Becky Murray of Get Knitted at Abbey
Home Farm for a day learning the art of knitting. Spend the day
getting to grips with basic knitting, purling, casting on/off and finishing.
Walk away with your first knitting project already begun and the skills
to finish it at home. For those who already have basic knitting skills
there will be opportunity to get more adventurous with circular and double
pointed needles for working in the round and also to bring projects from
home to ask for advice on.
With the needles and organic yarn from the farm’s sheep provided, you
will be kitted up to knit it up!*
Date:
Saturday 29th March 2008
Time: 10.00am-4.30pm
Cost: £50.00 (inclusive of lunch and refreshments) or
FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW
TO BOOK above). *A £5 surcharge is required for materials.
Willow
Talk
- Garden willow sculptures
FULL UP
Join Norah Kennedy, full time basket maker and teacher for a day
making beautiful garden sculptures to both support and enhance your garden.
Spend the day constructing wigwams, from the simple to the elaborate,
fan shaped supports, spheres and crab pot shapes. By the end of the day
you will have made 3-4 garden structures to take away with you.
Date:
Saturday 12th April 2008
Time: 10.00am-4.30pm
Cost: £50.00 (inclusive of lunch and refreshments) or
FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW
TO BOOK above). *A £10 surcharge is required for materials.
Herbs
for Health - Herbal Remedies
FULL UP
Join Anne McIntyre, medical herbalist, for a day unearthing the wonderful
uses to which commonplace herbs can be put. Anne has been practising
herbal medicine for 20 years and lectures within the UK and abroad on
the subject as well as having a series of published books including The
Top 100 Herbal Remedies, The Apothecary’s Garden and The Complete Floral
Healer. Grab this unique chance to benefit from her expertise at Abbey
Home Farm and begin unleashing the medical power of your flowers!
Date:
Saturday 5th July 2008
Time: 10.00am-4.30pm
Cost: £50.00 (inclusive of lunch and refreshments) or
FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above).
Broody
Foodies - Baby food making
Take a step by step approach through nutrition for babies and toddlers
and get hands on cooking delicious meals that can feed both baby and you.
Holly Jones, chef, food writer and owner of Manna from Devon cooking
school will guide you round Abbey Home Farm kitchen garden and
open your eyes to the possibilities with cooking from fresh, local and
organic ingredients. A practical session in the kitchens at Abbey Home
Farm will fill you with culinary inspiration for those precious baby years
to come!
Date:
Thursday 17th July 2008
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
Cost: £50.00 (inclusive of lunch and refreshments) or
FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK
above).
SPINNING DAY on Saturday 7th June FULL UP
Learn to spin using fleece from local organically reared sheep. Instruction given on sorting and preparation of fleece, including carding, combing and teasing wool ready for spinning. Information on different types of fleece and their uses, and how to ply two yarns together to produce a skein for dyeing or knitting. Spinning wheels and materials will be provided. Small group so lots of individual attention.
Cost: £65 includes a light organic lunch
Abbey
Home Farm - Organic Producer of the Year 1999
The
Organic Farm Shop - Organic Retailer of the Year 2000