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Kitchen courses

Bread making

Get to grips with the different doughs needed to create a variety of breads from brioche to sourdoughs to hot cross buns:
  • Occombe Farm, Devon, Sunday 14th March 
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 18th March
  • Bore Place, Kent, Monday 29th March
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 13th May
  • Assington Mill, Suffolk, Sunday 6th June

Posh & Exotic Bread Making

If you have the basic knowledge of bread making, take it to the next level and make a range of breads using different recipes and fresh seasonal produce

  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 8th April
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 10th June

Successful Gluten-free Baking

  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Wednesday 24th March
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 24th June

More than bread alone

This course will look at the magical process of making bread from growing grain through to making your own bread oven and baking your loaf. We will explore the cultural significance of bread with stories and folklore.

  • Emerson College, East Sussex, Tuesday 1st June - Thursday 4th June

Best ever cake making

Carrot cake, fragrant with spice, topped with cream cheese frosting, zesty lemon cake packed with almonds, deeply dark & gooey chocolate cake, juicy Devon apple with crumbly topping … discover how to make these delicious cakes & turn them into professional-looking dinner party favourites with just a few tasty, pretty additions

  • Occombe Farm, Devon, Sunday 25th April
     

Cheese making

  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Saturday 20th March
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Saturday 8th May
  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Saturday 22nd May
  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Wednesday 30th June
  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Saturday 24th July
  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Saturday 25th September
  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Saturday 20th November
     

Making preserves

Explore the traditional skill of jam making. Whether berries collected from the hedgerow or a glut of fruit from your garden, you will learn how to make a range of jams, jellies and fruit cordials.
 

  • Apricot Centre, North Essex, Saturday 13th March
  • Waltham Place, Berkshire, Wednesday 28th April 
  • Trill Farm, Devon, Wednesday 30th June 
     

Sausage making

Fancy pigging out on a day of making your own bespoke flavoured sausages?

  • Magdalen Project, Somerset, Thursday 11th March
  • Waltham Place, Berkshire, Wednesday 24th March
  • Empire Farm, Somerset, Sunday 2nd May

Pork butchery & sausage making

The morning is spent on basic butchery and the afternoon on making sausages

  • Empire Farm, Somerset, Sunday 28th March
     

Easy cheap and seasonal

With Fi, one of the Organic Farm Shop Cafe cooks. How to make delicious nutritious and inexpensive tasty vegetarian food for all the family. Just because it's organic doesn’t mean it costs the earth!
  • Abbey Home Farm, Gloucestershire, Wednesday 17th March

Wild meats day

Tutor, Marc Frederic demonstrates the skinning of a deer carcass, and teaches you how to skin and joint a rabbit, and pluck game birds.

  • Empire Farm, Somerset, Saturday 3rd April
     

An Introduction to Pastry-making

During this one-day masterclass, with professional chef and nutritionist Michael Newman, discover how to create perfect pastries every time. We will cover short crust & puff pastry methods which can be easily adapted for sweet or savoury dishes.
  • Occombe Farm, Devon, Sunday 2nd May
     

Cream teas & cakes

Enjoy a day turning organic, fairly traded and local ingredients into delicious, traditional treats

  • Bore Place, Kent, Tuesday 8th June


Hot and cold food smoking

  • Trill Farm, Devon, Saturday 12th June

Italian Summer Feast

Wonderfully colourful & seriously tasty, Italian cooking is a treat for all our senses - and we can still use local produce. If you want to throw a special summer party to impress then come along & learn the art of the Italian Summer Feast.
  • Occombe Farm, Devon, Sunday 27th June
     

Make the Most of Meat

Discover economical ways with home grown, organic and local meats and create a range of delicious meals to tempt taste buds and to suit your pocket.
  • Bore Place, Kent, date tbc

Cook’s Garden

with Lynda Brown. The morning will spent discussing how to make and get the most out of your own Cook’s Garden, using produce being grown at Trill Farm as a basis. The afternoon will focus on garlic as a vegetable and how to celebrate it in the kitchen: walking the garlic; pesto; garlic confit and puree, roast garlic, and how to dry, store, and plant home grown garlic for next year’s harvest.

  • Trill Farm, Devon, Wednesday 28th July


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Daylesford Foundation
Jam and preserve making

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