Learn a traditional rural skill: course directory

If you'd like to learn more about a rural craft or tradition, you're sure to find something in our list of course reviews - more every month!

Each month, Country Living staff try out a course to learn a traditional rural skill. Click on any of the course names below to read the full review, with contact details if you'd like to try it yourself.

Grow your own

Grow a wildflower meadow 

Allotments for beginners 

Try worm composting  

Food and drink

Foraging for wild food

Fungi foray  

Cider making 

Build your own oven; bake your own bread 

Make farmhouse cheese

Sell food safely

Bake your own bread

Beekeeping for beginners

Hedgerow cooking

Fashion skills

Spinning your own yarn  

Dyeing with natural colours

Working with animals

Driving heavy horses 

Cows for beginners

Goat keeping

Lambing skills 

Hen keeping 

For the home and garden

Herbal medicine

Candle making

Carving a wooden bowl 

Make willow plant supports

Straw bale building 

Traditional skills

Water dowsing 

Woodwork basics 

Dry stone walling

Be a blacksmith  

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