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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 10:53 am Post subject: New life for old crafts?
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

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 11:11 am Post subject:
oooh, good start I guess, nice to see it's at least being thought about.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 11:18 am Post subject:
I read that, perhaps they will pay me to start up some dry stone walling.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 12:54 pm Post subject:

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
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 12:59 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 2:26 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 3:00 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 7:06 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46184
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 06 7:33 pm Post subject:
learn what you can

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 11:59 am Post subject:

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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