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Behemoth



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 10:53 am    Post subject: New life for old crafts? Reply with quote
    

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4620884.stm

With traditional crafts on the wane there are fears that Britain's rural way of life is under grave threat. Now comes a �7m grant, designed to breathe new life into dying trades.
Norfolk Broads reed cutter Paul Mace and his younger brother Stephen followed three previous generations into the family trade. �..

Fee



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

oooh, good start I guess, nice to see it's at least being thought about.

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I read that, perhaps they will pay me to start up some dry stone walling.

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

This is good news Behemoth although I suspect that it is merely the tip of the iceberg.

Lots of yuppies like me enjoy the idea of going on eco-weekends, learning how to dry-stone wall and hedge-lay, but to really learn these skills obvioulsy takes months if not years.

I'd like to do a course of some kind at the Dorset Centre for Rural Skills, https://www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk/ or The Magdalen Project in Somerset https://www.themagdalenproject.org.uk/magdalen_project.htm (ooh! ooh! They do sausage-making courses! :drool:) but I admit that I am very unlikely to ever USE any of those techniques personally. Perhaps I should forego the training and let someone else have the place, someone who might actually do something constructive with what they learn.

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think encouraging the uses for these products and skills would be better, perhaps planners should insist more houses are built with local materials? There must be a way to tie-in hedge laying or walling skills with the existing farm grants etc?

Fee



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lozzie wrote:
or The Magdalen Project in Somerset https://www.themagdalenproject.org.uk/magdalen_project.htm (ooh! ooh! They do sausage-making courses! :drool:


Worrrr, the weekend breaks at the Magdalen Project look great! Has anyone ever been?

bernie-woman



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The green wood centre in Ironbridge does some excellent courses - I am waiting for them to get their 2006 schedule together but here is an idea of what they do

https://www.greenwoodcentre.org.uk/WoodlandCourses.htm

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There was a course over three days in Tregaron which ended today on hedgelaying. It was free (and I was working). Might ask them if they are doing anymore. I saw the hardy souls doing it last week - in the bitter cold, driving rain at the edge of Tregaron bog (which is a fantastic nature reserve).

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 06 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

learn what you can

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 06 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fee wrote:
Lozzie wrote:
or The Magdalen Project in Somerset https://www.themagdalenproject.org.uk/magdalen_project.htm (ooh! ooh! They do sausage-making courses! :drool:


Worrrr, the weekend breaks at the Magdalen Project look great! Has anyone ever been?


Fee - we haven't been, but I am trying to insinuate the idea surreptitiously into my husband's brain. I know that once he is convinced it was his idea in the first place, we should be able to go.

I'd be a nice place for a Downsizer get-together as well, wouldn't it!

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