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HOW TO BOOK:
Step 1 - Contact the farm on 01732 463 255 to check availability on the Master Classes below.
Step 2 - Join the Soil Association and qualify for your Master Class absolutely FREE.
» join online by direct debit (from £2 per month)
» join online with credit/debit card (£24)
Step 3 - Contact the farm on 01732 463 255 quoting your membership order reference number to book your free place.
Existing members can book a course at half price by quoting their membership number, found on their membership card. Please email memb@soilassociation.org if you have mislaid your card and would like a replacement, or would like to know your membership number.
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Make a Meal of Rosé Veal!
Cooking with Peter Gilpin, Chef, Commonwork tutor and food enthusiast.
Find out just how delicious this rarely used meat can be and learn how to recreate a veal feast at home. You’ll also learn how to make the most of cheaper and less well-known cuts of meat by trying your hand at more unusual recipes. With a delicate but sweet flavour, rosé veal is pink in colour thanks to dairy calves being fed a mixed diet. Calves from Bore Place are given plenty of space and sunshine and so yield delicious meat without the bitter aftertaste of their white veal counterparts. Try it and see over a lunch that will leave you drooling for more and primed to practice at home.
| Date: | Thursday 31 January 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.00pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £50 (includes lunch and drinks) or FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above). |
All you Knead to Dough!
Bread and butter making with Julia Bracewell, Education Co-ordinator and Win Terry, Dairy Processing Manager.
Fancy filling your kitchen with the smell of freshly baked bread? Want to know how? Learn the principles behind the perfect loaf and churn your way to the creamiest butter. You’ll have the chance to try out a variety of breads and to take home a small pot of butter.
| Date: | Friday 17 October 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.00pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £50 (includes lunch and drinks) or FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above). |
Dream Tea!
With Julia Bracewell, Education Co-ordinator and Jane Cheal, Head Housekeeper
Go behind the scenes of your cream tea and find out what its like not to cheat your way to this afternoon treat – get to grips with the real deal by:
- having a go at milling your own organic flour
- picking up freshly laid eggs from the hen house
- churning your butter
- making strawberry jam with freshly picked strawberries
- baking scones
- sampling authentic, unpasteurised farmhouse clotted cream
Go away with the know-how to bring the farmhouse to your townhouse!
| Date: | Tuesday 24 June 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.00pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £50 (includes lunch and drinks) or FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above). |
Go On a Hen Do!
Spring chicken keeping and cooking with eggs - with Julia Bracewell, Education Co-ordinator and Jane Cheal, Head Housekeeper
Would love to keep a few chickens but don’t know where to begin? Let Julia, battery hen rescuer and experienced chicken keeper, fill you in on everything you need to know from sourcing your birds to housing, handling and feeding them. Spend the afternoon exploring new and unimagined ways of cooking with eggs to spur you on to making the most of your new feathered friends.
| Date: | Wednesday 16 April 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.00pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £50 (includes lunch and drinks) or FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above). |
Willow Talk
Part One- Willow basket making
With John Waller, woodland management and conservation expert and qualified tree surgeon and coppice worker. Transform sweet smelling willow rods into a beautiful and useful basket. No previous experience needed. You’ll go home with a round-base basket of your own design and the techniques to be able to make more. Bring your own packed lunch. Fair Trade and organic refreshments are provided.
| Dates: | Saturday 23 February
Sunday 24th February |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.30pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £95 or £45 to those who join the Soil Association. To book call John Waller on 01732 463 255 or email info@underwoodsman.co.uk. For full details of the whole range of Green Wood Workshops and accommodation at Bore Place (including a supplementary afternoon preceding the ‘Willow Talk’ weekend on willow husbandry), please visit www.underwoodsman.co.uk |
Willow Talk
Part Two – Making tools
Spend a morning in the bluebell woods looking at the impact of coppicing and try your hand at making a mallet. Spend the afternoon on the pole lathe using your own energy rather than fossil fuel energy to make dibbers, candlesticks, spatulas and more to take home. Bring your own packed lunch. Fair Trade and organic refreshments are provided.
| Dates: | Saturday 10 May 2008 |
| Time: | TBC |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £40 or FREE to those who join the Soil Association. To book call John Waller on 01732 463 255 or email info@underwoodsman.co.uk. For full details of the whole range of Green Wood Workshops and accommodation at Bore Place (including a supplementary afternoon preceding the ‘Willow Talk’ weekend on willow husbandry), please visit www.underwoodsman.co.uk |
Smokin’!
Charcoal Making Day
With John Shepherd
Discover how to turn small pieces of wood into useful charcoal for your BBQ. Find out how using locally-produced charcoal helps global wildlife. Small-scale production in various designs of oil drum demonstrates the theory for larger scale production. Smoky discussion and a walk in the woods complete the day before taking away a bag of charcoal.
| Date: | Saturday 20 September 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.30pm |
| Location: | Bore Place at Commonwork, near Edenbridge, Kent |
| Cost: | £40 or FREE to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK above). |
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