The Woodyard, Gloucestershire. UK

The Woodyard is a shared making, teaching & events space on a farm surrounded by fields with easy access. This is where we have run our Roundwood Timber Framing courses for the last 10 years. There is space for car parking, tent pitching, a kitchen, compost loo, roundhouse and craft barn, etc. The yard is also available to hire for one off events. If you are looking for space to host events or teach this could be the place.

 

The Woodyard is also a space to; Nurture playfulness and creativity. Take inspiration from observing nature. Enjoy the quiet, slow down, stop doing and enjoy ‘being present’. Feel feral and live simply for a while. Cultivate intuitive improvisation and risk taking in the creative process. Explore ways to create together for the love of the journey. Try ancient techniques. Trust…… We take our rubbish and recycling home. Resist accumulating un-harmonious things here. Enjoy that we too are nature. Be kind to each other. Respect those yet to arrive who will benefit from an un-cluttered environment that is easy on the eye and good for the soul.

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Meals on our courses are always a shared event and we have a well fitted out field kitchen (no fridge)

The evening fire circle.

The Cruck Framed Bothy

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The Craft Barn.

Roundwood timber framed barn with green roof

The Timber Barn with invertebrate roof.

Door on a reciprocal roundhouse

The Roundhouse painted door

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One of the camping fields, just below the craft barn.

 

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A view through the poppies back towards the Woodyard

 

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The local wild swim – amazingly good!