The Course

Are you interested how traditional skills can shape a better future?

Have you ever wanted to pick up a road kill but didn't know if it was safe or legal?

Join us, in the heart of the Forest of Dean to learn the traditional skill of processing whole deer including hide tanning.

Using an entire intact deer you will first learn how to create a connection with the spirit of the animal, honouring and giving thanks for the animals life.

We will then discuss picking up roadkill and other ways to safely, ethically and legally source wild meat.

You will learn about various skinning and butchering techniques then looking at the anatomy and the organs to fully utilise for not just cooking and eating but also for tool making and other ancestral implements.

We will then move onto butchery and different ethos of cooking and eating and ways of preserving and you will even be able to take some delights away with you.

There will be discussions and demonstrations on the use of the skins and organic tanning methods,

You will have the opportunity to get involved in all aspects of the processing: grallocking, skinning, butchering and cooking.

We usually cook up a medley of delicious fresh organ meats and there will be an opportunity to take some fresh meat home with you - please bring cash or c ard.

About Scott

Leading this day is our skilled and experienced tanner and project Co-Director Scott Baine.

Scott has travelled across the world exploring, learning and practicing earth based ancestral skills.

He has learnt in the wilds of Scotland, Canada, USA, Sweden and Norway.

Being in contact with First Nations and Sami peoples brought him to a spiritual realisation. From this he joined a collective of likeminded people and formed a tribe living in the wilderness in Scandinavia. From here they organised DIY wilderness gatherings creating a unique environment for learning to happen.

Scott’s main focus on traditional tanning came from his time at renowned handicraft folk school in Sweden, which taught him to be resourceful not just with animal skins, but the whole animal being used as a means for surviving and thriving in the wild.

On his return to the UK, some 15 years ago Scott set up one of the UK’s only Ethical Organic Tanneries:

Teaching people in the Forest of Dean, and at festivals around the UK how to make use of waste from road kill, hunting and the food (waste) system. Sine then many others have followed suit - growing and reviving this fantastic, lineage and symbiosis with wild and domesticated animals

The Venue

This course is set at our off-grid 3/4 Acre Forest Garden / Permaculture Allotment. Here we have a fully kitted outdoor kitchen, uncover space, warm space and compost toilet.

The site may not be suitable for some people with physical disabilities - please get in touch if you are concerned.

Profits

The Rewild Project is a Not for Profit, Community Interest Company, and Social Enterprise. It is our mission to support local craftspeople and promote heritage craft skills.

We Rewild People by teaching skills in self reliance and resilience for an uncertain future.

After the craftspeople are paid, and costs are covered we put any profits back in to the community with our ‘weekday sessions for disadvantaged groups’ a lifeline for many local people who we pick up each day and bring to Kensley Sheds and others sites to build community, skills, and share nutritious hot, locally produced food.

Families & Children

You are welcome to bring well behaved children to this workshops, although we cannot guarantee you will have the same experience we will do our best to accommodate you all.

Children aged 9-12 will need a half price child’s ticket (add below) and will need to be accompanied by a full paying adult. 13 and over will need a full priced ticket, and will also nee to be accompanied by a full paying adult.

Sliding Scale Payment

We trust that you will choose the payment level that feels most appropriate. We aim to keep all our courses affordable, and the bursary places are subsidised by the full price places.

Some say that the most RADICAL thing you can do is grow your own food & resources.

Maybe you’ve already tried & experienced set backs and failures in the past?

Or you just don’t have the time…

Or you’ve heard about forest gardening & want to have a go

but just don’t know where to start?

This workshop series aims to empower you with the information and real life, practical skills you need to revolutionise the way you see and practice growing your own foods and medicines…

The problem with our agricultural & growing models…

The problem is that the age of agriculture has taught us to DOMINATE nature, instead of working WITH nature.

Nature is POWERFUL and when we dominate her, she will always be looking for a way to rebalance.

Our model for the last 20,000 years or so has been to take, take & take some more

- from the soil & the earth.

Forest Gardening

Works is working in balance, helping the most useful wild and perennial plants to thrive over time.

Forest Gardening is a revival of sorts of these old ways - sometimes using new plants as our climate changes - plants, trees and shrubs that require very little maintenance.

This can be a base for a mixed polyculture of annuals and perennials, or can be part of a whole scale agro-forestry system.
(Agriculture with Forest!)

There are soooo many ways to use the principles of Forest Gardening
- whether you have a small back yard, an allotment or a few acres or more.
These versatile principles, once learned can help you to plan a low maintenance, productive system, suited to your needs.

What can be better for the planet than that? All the materials you need - right at your fingertips.

Of course there is more to it that that and we are here to guide and teach the ways we have learned along the way.

And show you our amazing 3/4 Acre Plot
and it’s evolution into the wild and delicious Food Forest it is today.

And how we are scaling this up to become a Land-Based Community of autonomous individuals, working collaboratively and collectively as part of a whole system design!

Join us for a day of Forest Garden Magic at our bountiful permaculture allotment.

The morning - For new Participants
Will be spent looking at forest garden theory and design principles.

Lunch will be a hearty & wholesome affair of homegrown, local & wild produce - Paleo diets, Veggie & Vegan all catered for.

Each afternoon we will get stuck in with some practical seasonal skills:

• Summer pruning

• Softwood cuttings for propagation

• Summer chip bud grafting

• Plant ID

• Mulching techniques

• Building beds

• Solar dehydrator

• How to plant a tree properly

• Hardwood cuttings for propagation

• Division for propagation

• Winter pruning of fruit trees / Espaliers / fruit bushes

• Winter grafting techniques

About Your Course Leader - Scott Baine

Emma Gleave

The Settings

Our 3/4 acre bountiful Rewild Allotment cum Forest Garden is the main setting for the course although from time to time we may run day’s at our other Forest Garden’s around The Forest of Dean - check each event for location details.

Originally set up 8 years ago as a nursery to stock other land projects around The Forest of Dean, this has now evolved into an amazing community space, Forest Garden / Food Forest used by many of The Rewild Project groups.

We have a glass house built by Shift Bristol from reclaimed materials, an outdoor kitchen, and an interesting array of edible perennials, annual polyculture crops and herbal medicinal plants.

Bonuses from The Workshop

Not only will you spend a day in fantastic company of The Rewild Team - going away with some new knowledge of how to set up and maintain your own forest garden, building important transferable key skills such as:

• How to read your own landscape

• Design Principles

• Planting

• Garden maintenance

You will also get:

• A list of top Forest Garden Plants for your garden.

• Knowledge of the best tools for the job

• Skills and knowledge to keep maintenance super simple yet yielding food and products

• Plants to take away (when propagating has been taught)

• Herbal Products to take away (when harvesting & creating products)

• Foods & Ferments to take away (when fermenting is being taught)

And always you will go away with new contacts & friendships with people on the same path as you are.

And we hope you keep coming back to learn more new skills each time

For repeat attendees

Because we will be teaching different skills each time, depending on the season - we will give the option of the group being split during the morning session - so that you can choose to do the

‘Introduction to Forest Garden’s’ teaching session with Scott

OR

You can spend time on the allotment learning the practical skills with another member of the team, and engaging with the landscape.

Bookings

Choose as many workshops as you like. Remember the introduction morning session does not need to be repeated for repeat attendees the series is designed to work as a 1 day introduction OR to keep coming back to learn more new skills each time!

Simply add to basket - fill out the form, then go to basket to complete the bookings.

Some say that the most RADICAL thing you can do is grow your own food & resources.

Maybe you’ve already tried & experienced set backs and failures in the past?

Or you just don’t have the time…

Or you’ve heard about forest gardening & want to have a go

but just don’t know where to start?

This workshop series aims to empower you with the information and real life, practical skills you need to revolutionise the way you see and practice growing your own foods and medicines…

The problem with our agricultural & growing models…

The problem is that the age of agriculture has taught us to DOMINATE nature, instead of working WITH nature.

Nature is POWERFUL and when we dominate her, she will always be looking for a way to rebalance.

Our model for the last 20,000 years or so has been to take, take & take some more

- from the soil & the earth.

Forest Gardening

Works is working in balance, helping the most useful wild and perennial plants to thrive over time.

Forest Gardening is a revival of sorts of these old ways - sometimes using new plants as our climate changes - plants, trees and shrubs that require very little maintenance.

This can be a base for a mixed polyculture of annuals and perennials, or can be part of a whole scale agro-forestry system.
(Agriculture with Forest!)

There are soooo many ways to use the principles of Forest Gardening
- whether you have a small back yard, an allotment or a few acres or more.
These versatile principles, once learned can help you to plan a low maintenance, productive system, suited to your needs.

What can be better for the planet than that? All the materials you need - right at your fingertips.

Of course there is more to it that that and we are here to guide and teach the ways we have learned along the way.

And show you our amazing 3/4 Acre Plot
and it’s evolution into the wild and delicious Food Forest it is today.

And how we are scaling this up to become a Land-Based Community of autonomous individuals, working collaboratively and collectively as part of a whole system design!

Join us for a day of Forest Garden Magic at our bountiful permaculture allotment.

The morning - For new Participants
Will be spent looking at forest garden theory and design principles.

Lunch will be a hearty & wholesome affair of homegrown, local & wild produce - Paleo diets, Veggie & Vegan all catered for.

Each afternoon we will get stuck in with some practical seasonal skills:

• Summer pruning

• Softwood cuttings for propagation

• Summer chip bud grafting

• Plant ID

• Mulching techniques

• Building beds

• Solar dehydrator

• How to plant a tree properly

• Hardwood cuttings for propagation

• Division for propagation

• Winter pruning of fruit trees / Espaliers / fruit bushes

• Winter grafting techniques

About Your Course Leader - Scott Baine

Emma Gleave

The Settings

Our 3/4 acre bountiful Rewild Allotment cum Forest Garden is the main setting for the course although from time to time we may run day’s at our other Forest Garden’s around The Forest of Dean - check each event for location details.

Originally set up 8 years ago as a nursery to stock other land projects around The Forest of Dean, this has now evolved into an amazing community space, Forest Garden / Food Forest used by many of The Rewild Project groups.

We have a glass house built by Shift Bristol from reclaimed materials, an outdoor kitchen, and an interesting array of edible perennials, annual polyculture crops and herbal medicinal plants.

Bonuses from The Workshop

Not only will you spend a day in fantastic company of The Rewild Team - going away with some new knowledge of how to set up and maintain your own forest garden, building important transferable key skills such as:

• How to read your own landscape

• Design Principles

• Planting

• Garden maintenance

You will also get:

• A list of top Forest Garden Plants for your garden.

• Knowledge of the best tools for the job

• Skills and knowledge to keep maintenance super simple yet yielding food and products

• Plants to take away (when propagating has been taught)

• Herbal Products to take away (when harvesting & creating products)

• Foods & Ferments to take away (when fermenting is being taught)

And always you will go away with new contacts & friendships with people on the same path as you are.

And we hope you keep coming back to learn more new skills each time

For repeat attendees

Because we will be teaching different skills each time, depending on the season - we will give the option of the group being split during the morning session - so that you can choose to do the

‘Introduction to Forest Garden’s’ teaching session with Scott

OR

You can spend time on the allotment learning the practical skills with another member of the team, and engaging with the landscape.

Bookings

Choose as many workshops as you like. Remember the introduction morning session does not need to be repeated for repeat attendees the series is designed to work as a 1 day introduction OR to keep coming back to learn more new skills each time!

Simply add to basket - fill out the form, then go to basket to complete the bookings.

The Course

Are you interested how traditional skills can shape a better future?

Building on our super popular: Making the Most of Your Deer Course - this is day 2! You can book both days together, or take this as a stand alone day.

Join us at our off-grid heritage craft centre, in the heart of the Forest of Dean to learn the traditional skill of processing whole deer including hide tanning.

Following on from day 1 , where we honoured a whole intact deer, then learned skinning and butchering techniques - we will dive deeper into the items you can craft with the skin, organs, sinews and bones - as well as learning some outdoor cooking techniques.

You can take this day as a stand alone, whether you have previously taken ‘Making the Most of your Deer’ or not - although it helps to have done this.

Some of the crafts we will look at are: Working with the skin - different methods for preservation of skins - raw hide, bark and brain tanning; you will learn how to flesh the hide and prepare a bark tanning solution using bark from the sweet chestnut coppice we manage locally; leather craft, how to find sinew and skin to sew with, bone tools.

Cooking and meat preservation: Smoking and drying - tips and tricks.

Leading this day is our skilled and experienced tanner and company Co-Director Scott Baine. Scott has travelled the world extensively learning and developing his skills and knowledge in ancestral wisdom.

About Scott

Scott has travelled across the world to learn earth and survival skills. He has learnt in the wilds of Scotland, Canada, USA, Sweden and Norway. Being in contact with First Nations and Sami brought him a realisation spiritual and physically. He joined a collective and formed a tribe living in the wilderness in Scandinavia from here they organised DIY wilderness gatherings to create a environment for learning to happen. His main focus on traditional tanning at a renowned handicraft folk school in Sweden taught him to be resourceful with animal skins and set up a ethical organic Tannery to teach people how to make use of waste from road kill, hunting and the food system

The Venue

This course is set at our off-grid woodland craft centre, Kensley Sheds, right in the heart of the beautiful Forest of Dean, situated on the famous Sculpture Trail, close to the Stained Glass Window and Wildlife Trust reserve ‘Woorgreen Lake’

Kensley Sheds is the home of our Social Forestry Project ‘New Leaf’. Here, local adults who are struggling with social issues come learn & practice new skills. We follow regenerative woodland management practices, to extract and process wood from disused Forestry England coppiced woodland. Here the wood is turned it into functional items, firewood and charcoal, giving people access to new careers and a sense of real community.

Kensley sheds has running water, a flushing disabled access toilet, onsite parking and is heated by wood-burner. You will be able to peruse our extensive library of eco / craft / alternative living books throughout the day

Profits

The Rewild Project is a Not for Profit, Community Interest Company, and Social Enterprise. It is our mission to support local craftspeople and promote heritage craft skills. We Rewild People by teaching these skills of self reliance and resilience for an uncertain future.

After the craftspeople are paid, and costs are covered we put any profits back in to the community with our ‘weekday sessions for disadvantaged groups’ a lifeline for many local people who we pick up each day and bring to Kensley Sheds and others sites to build community, skills, and share nutritious hot, locally produced food.

Families & Children

You are welcome to bring well behaved children to this workshops, although we cannot guarantee you will have the same experience we will do our best to accomodate you all.

Children aged 9-12 will need a half price child’s ticket (add below) and will need to be accompanied by a full paying adult. 13 and over will need a full priced ticket, and will also nee to be accompanied by a full paying adult.

The Course

Are you interested how traditional skills can shape a better future?

Have you ever wanted to pick up a road kill but didn't know if it was safe or legal?

Join us at our off-grid heritage craft centre, in the heart of the Forest of Dean to learn the traditional skill of processing whole deer including hide tanning.

Using an entire intact deer you will connect with, honour and give thanks for the animals life before we go through various skinning techniques and discuss use of the skins and organic tanning methods, then looking at the anatomy and the organs to fully utilise for not just cooking and eating but also for tool making and other ancestral implements..

We will then move onto butchery and different ethos of cooking and eating and ways of preserving and you will even be able to take some delights away with you.

You will have the opportunity to get involved in grallocking, skinning, butchering and cooking.

We usually cook up a medley of delicious fresh organ meats and there will be an opportunity to take some fresh meat home with you - please bring cash or card.

Leading this day is our skilled and experienced tanner and company Co-Director Scott Baine. Scott has travelled the world extensively learning and developing his skills and knowledge in ancestral wisdom.

About Scott

Scott has travelled across the world to learn earth and survival skills. He has learnt in the wilds of Scotland, Canada, USA, Sweden and Norway. Being in contact with First Nations and Sami brought him a realisation spiritual and physically. He joined a collective and formed a tribe living in the wilderness in Scandinavia from here they organised DIY wilderness gatherings to create a environment for learning to happen. His main focus on traditional tanning at a renowned handicraft folk school in Sweden taught him to be resourceful with animal skins and set up a ethical organic Tannery to teach people how to make use of waste from road kill, hunting and the food system

The Venue

This course is set at our off-grid woodland craft centre, Kensley Sheds, right in the heart of the beautiful Forest of Dean, situated on the famous Sculpture Trail, close to the Stained Glass Window and Wildlife Trust reserve ‘Woorgreen Lake’

Kensley Sheds is the home of our Social Forestry Project ‘New Leaf’. Here, local adults who are struggling with social issues come learn & practice new skills. We follow regenerative woodland management practices, to extract and process wood from disused Forestry England coppiced woodland. Here the wood is turned it into functional items, firewood and charcoal, giving people access to new careers and a sense of real community.

Kensley sheds has running water, a flushing disabled access toilet, onsite parking and is heated by wood-burner. You will be able to peruse our extensive library of eco / craft / alternative living books throughout the day

Profits

The Rewild Project is a Not for Profit, Community Interest Company, and Social Enterprise. It is our mission to support local craftspeople and promote heritage craft skills. We Rewild People by teaching these skills of self reliance and resilience for an uncertain future.

After the craftspeople are paid, and costs are covered we put any profits back in to the community with our ‘weekday sessions for disadvantaged groups’ a lifeline for many local people who we pick up each day and bring to Kensley Sheds and others sites to build community, skills, and share nutritious hot, locally produced food.

Families & Children

You are welcome to bring well behaved children to this workshops, although we cannot guarantee you will have the same experience we will do our best to accomodate you all.

Children aged 9-12 will need a half price child’s ticket (add below) and will need to be accompanied by a full paying adult. 13 and over will need a full priced ticket, and will also nee to be accompanied by a full paying adult.

The Course

Learn how to graft an array of fruit trees this spring with Scott.

This workshop will provide you with an understanding of the importance of grafting as you gain the knowledge of how to combine one plant's qualities of flowering or fruiting with the roots of another that offers vigour and resilience.

Three different grafting methods taught and practiced on the day, looking at the pro’s and con’s of each: 1. Apical-wedge; 2. Side Veneer; 3. Whip & Tongue.

You will go away with 2 x Grafted Root stocks with named variety apple trees grafted on with clear knowledge of aftercare.

Please note: Grafting success depends on the weather conditions, skills level, and timing depending on the years seasonality. We do have an 80-90% success rate, however there are no hard and fast guarantees.

Location Details

This is a 1 day event at The Rewild Permaculture Allotment. This is a fantastic experimental demonstration site with purpose built outdoor kitchen, glass-house, and our eco log cabin, tiny home build, as well as a whole host of named variety heritage fruit trees, tree nursery, root stock and perennial edible plants for the future.

On the day - Approximate timings

9.30 Arrive early for hot drinks and to settle in and meet The Rewild project crew.

10am Workshop starts, with introductions, background to grafting, safety info & some practice twigs.

12.30pm Break for lunch - bring & share pot luck lunch. Warm soup may be available, made with local / organic ingredients.

2pm - Time to graft for real - you will be guided and supported every step of the way to ensure the highest success rate possible.

4pm - Workshop ends, thanks & goodbye for now x

About Scott

Scott has travelled across the world to learn earth and survival skills. He has learnt in the wilds of Scotland, Canada, USA, Sweden and Norway. Being in contact with First Nations and Sami brought him a realisation spiritual and physically. He joined a collective and formed a tribe living in the wilderness in Scandinavia from here they organised DIY wilderness gatherings to create a environment for learning to happen. His passion lyes in supporting food sovereignty and inspiring others to engage with the edible landscape around us.

Profits

The Rewild Project is a Not for Profit, Community Interest Company, and Social Enterprise. It is our mission to support local craftspeople and promote heritage craft skills. We Rewild People by teaching these skills of self reliance and resilience for an uncertain future.

After the craftspeople are paid, and costs are covered we put any profits back in to the community with our ‘weekday sessions for disadvantaged groups’ a lifeline for many local people who we pick up each day and bring to Kensley Sheds and others sites to build community, skills, and share nutritious hot, locally produced food.

Families & Children

This workshop is not suitable for children due to the sharp knives and risk level, needing extra supervision on the site.