Welcome to Our workshops
Enhance Your Stay with One of our Unique Experiences
Traditional River Wye boat building, Natural Beekeeping, or Prescribe a Pony - make your stay extra special with one of our experiences
Workshops planned
Coracle making
Horizontal hives Natural Beekeeping
Prescribe a Pony
Workshops we have planned;' Build a Coracle', Rowan is a carpenter, we together built and sailed our Coracle.
You may contact us to discuss hosting your own workshop, using our venue and accommodation.
Prescribe a Pony
Horizontal hives Natural Beekeeping
Prescribe a Pony
'Prescribe a Pony' workshop
Breathe fresh air quietly with the horses near the trees.
Involves working alongside horses to create personal insight, awareness, process a thought, develop individual well-being, clearing your mind, using your energy so that the horse chooses to engage with us.
Can be as simple as observing the horses from a distance, quietly thinking with them in their environment, or working together in a structured way in the menage.
Horizontal hives Natural Beekeeping
Horizontal hives Natural Beekeeping
Horizontal hives Natural Beekeeping
Build Horizontal deep frame hives to mirror nature and learn natural Beekeeping, a really hands on, practical course skipping the boring paperwork and theory.
Workshops in detail. Embrace, Include.
Coracle building
The Coracle is a small round boat made of wickerwork covered with a water tight material, propelled with a paddle. You will make all of this! We will be using willow coppiced from our land. Canvas sewn on. Your Oar will be shaped by your own hand under Rowans guidance. Historically the Coracle was used on the River Wye as it was lightweight to carry on one mans back up and down the valley to the river, it was then used to fish from. We will not have time to fish but we should get chance to wobble around in our finished craft. The Coracle you make can be strapped onto the roof of your car to take home with you.
Natural Beekeeping
We practice natural beekeeping using horizontal deep frame hives . Rowan is a carpenter so we plan to help/teach you to build your own horizontal hive and line it with lambs wool from our neighbors flock . We have hives here at Oak cottage so we can guide you through the basics - we give you the opportunity to walk away transformed into an easy going Beekeeper who works with nature to keep happy bees !
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