Short courses

This a special land based programme combining traditional theory with hands on practices, intentionally designed to reconnect you to your ancestral memory and encourage pathways to elemental regeneration.

This beginner friendly training day aims to equip you with the skills and confidence necessary for safe and effective pruning ensuring the health of your fruit trees bosting fruit production and quality.

Basic principles of fruit tree pruning
Pruning techniques and choosing correct tools
Using tools safely and effectively
Gain practical experience of winter pruning apple and pear trees
All equipment provided

Want to start your own horticultural growing business?

Permaculture, Cultural Emergence demonstration and training centre in North Herefordshire

Education, membership and advisory services to help farmers produce healthier, more resilient livestock, reducing the need for antibiotics and synthetic inputs.

Training and support delivered by vets and farm experts offer practical, easily adopted, natural health approaches that work for any system.

The course offers a foundation in the ecological principles, politics and methods central to agroecology, and will give first-hand insight to a broad range of farm enterprises, including livestock, arable, horticulture and fibre, in order to demonstrate these in practice. Fully-funded and part-funded places available.

The CSA Network UK run an annual masterclass programme of 6 x 2 hour webinars with different CSA experts.
– Scaling up: machinery, site design, irrigation and tools
– Engaging and maintaining members and marketing your CSA
– First steps in your new CSA: pacing, prioritising and visioning
– Crop planning, year round growing and hungry gap ideas
– Land, insurance, people, management and governance
– Business planning and finance

The Medicinal Forest Garden Design Course provides 10 online lessons introducing growing and harvesting medicinal trees and shrubs in a temperate climate. This course, whether for self-sufficiency or profit, is suitable for a range of growers, and start date is flexible.

Helping land managers achieve their business goals with context-specific regenerative solutions. With extensive practical farming experience, Silas Hedley – Lawrence emphasises profitable, resilient, low-input systems that capture carbon, improve water cycles, increase biodiversity, and enhance soil health by working with nature.