Curing Bacon /
Ham / Biltong –
Tim Wingfield

Suitable breeds; preferred cuts and cutting; different methods of curing (sweet cure, dry cure and brine cure); equipment required, curing bacon, ham and biltong and taking some home to try out.

Dates: Maximum 6 persons

Brewing fine ales & beers
James Vincent

Theory of brewing; characteristics of different varieties of hops and malts, water characteristics, sampling different beers, brewing beer. By arrangement you can have samples of beer that you have brewed forwarded to your home address when it is ready.

Dates: Maximum 6 persons

Rural Skills
Janet Jones

Hedge laying, Hurdle making and Cornish hedging. Straw bale builing, Composting toilets to name a few...

Dates: See Notice board for availablity and details.

Natural Horsemanship
Catherine Hoskin

Australian Natural Horsemanship is a proven way of establishing the proper relationship between horse and rider, solving problems of balance, respect, and communication. ANH is taught at Woodland Valley by Catherine Hoskin (BHS Intermediate instructor since the early 1980’s). She is one of only 3 instructors in the UK endorsed by Ken Faulkner, and has been practicing this method of horsemanship since the nineties in the UK and Australia.Courses vary from demonstrations to three hour taster session and up to a Week long. Instruction can be for individuals or for groups of up to 6. Larger groups can be accommodated with plenty of prior warning. Participants should bring their own horses, but horses can be provided by special arrangement. Please call us with your special requirements and to discuss rates.

Dates: See Notice board for availablity and details.

Survival Skills and
Self Sufficiency
Spanner Manley and Chris Smart

All aspects of survival matters, pre expedition training for families, schools and buisnesses through to commited survivalists

Dates: See Notice board for availablity and details.

Kernowgam –
Gamelan for Cornwall
Jo Shaw

One-off Workshops
A gamelan is a set of percussion instruments from Indonesia. At Woodland Valley we have a small gamelan from Bali, which was specially commissioned for Cornwall and is available for workshops for school groups and other visitors. We can accommodate up to thirty children or twenty adults at a time, and participants will learn about the instruments and their background, and try their hand at a simple Balinese piece. The sessions are great fun, and promote listening and concentration skills as well as teambuilding.

Gamelan weekends
For a fuller introduction to the gamelan, weekend workshops are available. Come and stay at the beautiful Woodland Valley centre, and in between exploring the lovely countryside, learn more about the gamelan and develop your playing techniques. There is always another part to learn, a more complex and challenging pattern to master, and when you’ve had enough of music, you can try your hand at dancing, or puppeteering!

These weekends cater for between 10 and 20 individuals of any age, although young children might find it tiring over the longer periods and the recommended minimum age would usually be 10.

for more information click here (adobe acrobat required)

Dates: See Notice board for
availablity and details.

Sustainable building –
straw bale, cob, wattle and daub, composting toilets, all sorts.