UK Based Organic Farm School

The Soil Association’s Organic Farm School, supported by the Daylesford Foundation is meant to help fill the knowledge gaps recently discovered among UK residents when it comes to gardening. According to a recent study a basic lack of confidence may be holding Brits back from taking the plunge towards self sufficiency, with half admitting they have lost the practical skills of their grandparent’s generation.

• 45% admit they have fewer cooking skills.
• 47% say they are less able to grow their own food.
• 48% have lost the rural craft skills that make self sufficiency possible.
• 51% say they would have no idea how to rear animals.

However, the same research noted that an amazing 92% of people in the UK say that self sufficiency and traditional skills like growing your own food, crafting and rearing your own livestock have become more and more important during the financial crisis. That’s where the Organic Farm School courses come in.

The Organic Farm School offers hands-on courses in growing your own food, rearing animals, cooking and rural crafts. Participants can learn practical and fun self sufficiency skills direct from organic farmers, growers and producers with personal experience.

Organic Farm School courses are based around growing skills, kitchen skills, smallholding skills and a range of seasonal & specialist skills throughout the year. Seasonal and specialist courses include:

• wild food foraging
• hedge laying
• cider making
• bee keeping
• cheese making
• preserving
• butchery and game preparation
• seasonal cookery demos
• willow weaving
• dry stone walling

If all this and way more sounds cool to you check out the Organic Farm School.