Roundwood timber framing courses 2014

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roundwood timber framing course

Thank you to all the lovely people who attended this years roundwood timber framing courses. Good luck with your projects keep me posted on how you get on. We’ll be running two more courses next year. 30th Aug – 3rd Sept and 7th – 11th Sept. For more info or booking details go to our trading website…

http://www.wholewoods.co.uk/page.cfm?pageid=ww-roundwood-timber-framing-course

 

 

Roundhouse building course 2014

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reciprocal frame roundhouse by wholewoods

We just completed another roundhouse for a school in Brixham. Over the years I’ve built quite a few buried post roundhouse’s, (the iron age style) with reciprocal roof. However this is the first freestanding roundhouse I’ve built.  I’ll be posting more details about how we did this build. Anyway it seemed high time I ran a roundhouse-building course to pass some of this experience on so the first one runs on 31st May – 1st June 2014. For more details and booking form visit my trading website http://www.wholewoods.co.uk/page.cfm?pageid=ww-round-house-building-course

Stroud Permaculture Course 2013

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Stroud permaculture Course
Last Thursday I taught the green buildings and woodlands sessions on the second Stroud permaculture design course. The following Sunday we all gathered at our woodyard on Duchy Home Farm for a days tree felling. This is a very popular day in the woodland behind the yard. It’s a humbling experience to work as a group felling a large mature tree by hand with axes and two-man felling saws. There’s a lot of grunting and puffing and a fair amount of tension in the air. It may be a surprise to everyone how hard this activity actually is but the power of collaborative human effort never fails to amaze me. It’s good to know and to ‘feel’ the effort that felling a tree really  requires. It was only about 60yrs ago that chainsaws came into popular use. Before then this was the ONLY way to do it. Who knows those days may come again.

I highly recommend doing a permaculture course. It’s one of the best courses I’ve ever attended. To find out more about 2014 Stroud permaculture course contact Seb at stroudpermaculturecourse@gmail.com

To find out more about permaculture go to the national website
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/

Green building and Permaculture Design

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Stroud permaculture Course
This post is here to promote next years Stroud Permaculture Course.
Last Thursday I taught the green building session on the first Stroud permaculture design course. We’ve had 28 people book on and the sessions are held at Rodbourgh community centre every Thursday night. In addition to this there are a series of weekend trips out including a visit to Ben Law’s woodland, Five Penny Farm and a day with me at Duchy Home Farm. The course was over subscribed and will run again next year.

I highly recommend doing a permaculture course. It’s one of the best courses I’ve ever attended. To find out more about 2013 Stroud permaculture course contact Seb at stroudpermaculturecourse@gmail.com

To find out more about permaculture go to the national website
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/

Teaching and Outdoor Classroom Building

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The Waldorf students building their outdoor classroom


This autumn sees the continuation of Waldorf College, Bridging the Gap course in Stroud. This is a year long full-time course for young people aged 16 -19 years old. The course emphasises learning new skills through the crafts, being on the path of self-discovery through the arts and developing a coherent world. I am working with the students building their outdoor classroom using hand tools and natural materials. During the process we are also felling trees from the woodland and learning about forestry. With the funding cuts looming on the horizon it has looked doubtful that the course will continue which has been very sad. I have met a few of last year’s students who confirm my belief that this course offers a transformative experience. It seems that the parents agree. Many have said that this is the first time their child has been motivated to participate in education. It now looks likely that critical fund raising can be met through the generosity of the local parents and that the college will survive until next year when it will once again be in a secure position. We all have our fingers crossed.

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