Home        About Us        Products and Prices        Courses and Shows        Good Advice        Links


   

 

Courses

and

Shows

 

 

 

The 2008 course programme -

I run a number of courses throughout the year, usually in conjunction with other organisations (they provide the venue, advertising and insurance; I

 provide the materials and expertise).  There may be one or two more to be added, but below is the almost complete listing for 2008.

 

April 5th and 6th - Two day wattle hurdle making course at Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos - this will be as part of the coppice

 restoration programme in Silk Wood. You will learn the basic techniques of splitting, making the twist and building up the hurdle. Every student should be

 able to take a small hurdle home with them at the end of the course ( size of vehicle permitting!). Cost: £90 including materials. Further details from Jane

 Grey-Wallis on 01453 521218.

 

April 26th - One day Introduction to Green Woodworking at The Yarner Trust in North Devon - this will take a look at some

 of the basic techniques of greenwood-working - cleaving, axe work, shaping with drawknife and shave horse - as you are taken through a number of simple

 projects (making tent and clothes pegs, simple kitchen utensils and whistles). Cost £35; details from the Yarner Trust (below).

 

May 19th and 20th - Two day wattle hurdle making course in North Devon (probably at the Cookworthy Forest

 Centre, Beaworthy) - other details as for April.  This will be in conjunction with Field and Forest Training (aka Kathy Lewington, formerly of South

 West Forest. Since their training funding dried up Kathy has gone independent and is continuing to organise a really interesting programme of courses).

 Cost £70, including materials. Further details from Kathy Lewington on 01409 240009.

 

Late Sept/early Oct (to be confirmed) - Two day green woodworking course at Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos - this will

 be part of the Weekend in the Woods, where a number of tutors (myself included) will be joining together to offer a range of courses, including pole-lathe

 turning, stick furniture making, spoon carving and more. The most likely date is Sept 27th/28th, and more details will follow soon...

 

Oct 3rd - One day course making your own green wood stool at The Yarner Trust in North Devon - this Friday course is in

 conjunction with a weekend (4th/5th) of rush seating. You can make a simple stool (using drawknives and round mortice and tenon joints) for rushing over

 the following two days. Cost £35; more details from the Yarner Trust (below).

 

Nov 8th - One day hedgelaying course at The Yarner Trust in North Devon - a day's Devon style hedgelaying, looking at safe tool-

use, laying, crooking, tying-in and layering. Cost £30, details from the Yarner Trust (below).

 

Nov 15th and 16th - Two day wattle hurdle making course at The Yarner Trust, North Devon - come and make a wattle

 hurdle in the beautiful setting of the Yarner Trust in North Devon. Over the course of the two days you will learn how to split hazel,

 build up the weave, complete your starting and finishing sequences and take home a (small!) wattle hurdle. Cost £60 (£85 res.). Details below.

 

The Yarner Trust:    info@yarnertrust.org  -   www.yarnertrust.org  -  01288 331692.

 

 

 

The 2008 show programme -

  If you want see us at work (and have a day out) you could pay a visit to any of the following:

 

May 15/16/17 - Devon County Show - a three-day show at the Westpoint Showground, east of Exeter. We will probably be part of the South

 West Forest stand in the Forestry section.

 

June 5/6/7 - Royal Cornwall Show -  this show is located just outside Wadebridge. We will have our own stand in the Countryside

 Section at the top end of the showground.

 

July 12/13 - South West Wood Fair- this year it's back at Roadford Lake, (alternating each year with Taunton Racecourse).  It is the west

 country's largest wood fair, and we will be on our own pitch in the greenwood section.

 

August 22/23/24/25 - Westonbirt Festival of the Tree -    one of the largest wood fairs in the country, held at Westonbirt Arboretum in

 Gloucestershire. A large gathering of tree and wood related sales and demonstrations in the grounds of the ArboretumWe'll be in the 'Working

 Woodlands' Section.

 

September 18/19/20 - Forest Machinery Show - details to be announced.