From starting a micro-dairy to ploughing with horses, saving seed to making products from petals, the Landworkers' Alliance Skills Day offers expert tuition in traditional husbandry and land-based crafts, plus all the fun of the Green Scythe Fair
Sustain member the Landworkers' Alliance, the organisation that promotes ecological community and family farming, is hosting a unique event on the site of the great Green Scythe Fair, the day before the fair itself.
The Land Skills Day will take place on 11 June, at Thorney Lakes, Muchelney, Somerset. It will involve workshops and skillshares on a range of land-based skills: see here for details.
Tickets cost £40 for LWA members, £65 non members, £10 under 16 (plus admin fees). This includes includes lunch and dinner, live music in the evening from a Gypsy Swing Band, plus entrance to the Green Scythe Fair the following day, which claims to be the most authentic, as well as the most enjoyable, country fair in England.
There will be children's activities throughout the day. Camping costs an extra £5 pppn, and is available next to the event site.
Published Friday 27 May 2016
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