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By Our Hands We Make Our Way

by our hands we make our way

4.9(41)

Freckingham Street

Making anything right now is a radical act in defiance of fear: making something however simple seeming – baking bread, making the bed; making art or a garden; a stiff drink or your mind up. It’s time to get creative and figure out how to keep our fingers busy, hearts full and souls satisfied. Time to roll sleeves up and get those hands dirty (as long as you wash ’em before and afterwards!) Finding ways to continue connections and sustain friendship feels so important, we’re glad that you’re a part of our community. Whatever comes next we have to make it together. Even if we can’t be with you here there are things that we’d like to share. There are tools at the workshop waiting for hands to use them. We’ll be glad to see shavehorses, benchhooks, chopping blocks, mallets and whittling tools loaned out to good homes, keeping folk crafting. We were so lucky to recieve a lot of wood before the doors closed, we’d love to see it go out to people who can use it. Let us know if you’d like a delivery of fresh green cherry, birch, whitebeam or oak. There are books in the library that could keep you busy learning something new over the next weeks and months. We’re working online too, hosting a shared space to chip away at whatever you feel like. Making a place to talk, weep, dance, laugh while we carve something beautiful together. Fridays are a good time to try, if someone is in the studio then you are virtually welcome to sit and have a cuppa, what’s on your mind?

Whitepepper Chef Academy & Cookery School

whitepepper chef academy & cookery school

4.8(36)

Poole

Welcome to WhitePepper! The academy headquarters are based in regenerated horticultural buildings on the south coast of England and just a stone’s throw from The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Many have described the farm’s location as a culinary retreat, igniting the ultimate space-in-time for professional training and development with purpose. The press described us as, “a new generation cookery school.” We’re a leading UK culinary centre since 2010, crowned best in Britain on four occasions. Run by a team of experienced professionals who passionately strive to unlock the potential in every student. We are truly international and have been attracting students from around the globe for over a decade. We’re a driving force for culinary education, promoting creativity, initiative and innovation. Our students benefit from a comprehensive and modern curriculum with commercial insights and practical business theory. We are a platform for consolidating knowledge and accelerating careers and opportunities. As a result our graduates are confident and have the tenacity to be great contributors in the world of culinary arts. We love what we do and it shows in our results. Our courses are in a constant state of evolution; keeping pace with the modern world and pushing boundaries. One constant, however, is our commitment to creating greater access to qualification training. This can manifest for you in 3-ways; super-concise length, modular-block attendance and part-time format.

Oak And Smoke Tannery

oak and smoke tannery

Moretonhampstead

Oak and Smoke Tannery is dedicated to Natural Tanning and Traditional Leatherwork. Oak and Smoke Tannery is made up of Jane Robertson and Jessie Watson Brown. We are two individuals with a passion for the wildness in nature and the skills that enable us to live closely to the earth. Through this journey… we discovered tanning! The tanning processes we practise use only natural ingredients – locally harvested tree barks such as Oak and Willow, oils and Smoke. We tan and sell leather, rawhide and unique leather handcrafts. The Heritage Crafts association has categorised tanning as ‘critically endangered’ as a craft because there are so few people practising it and even less teaching it. We intend to demystify the art of tanning by teaching simple methods, with simple tools. This is how we were taught and how we still practise. We learned tanning in Washington State in America and more recently from traditional tanners in Scandinavia.  We love the discovery of learning how different skins and processes work, and seeing the alchemical change that they go through during the tanning process. When we first returned from America lots of people were asking us to teach them tanning so we set up our first hide camp. The first year was small with a group of friends, and it was a booming success. Since then its grown and grown every year and now we run numerous camps every year, as well as guest teaching on other courses and offering individual tuition. All this as well as of course tanning leather ourselves on Dartmoor and in Mid Wales. We would love to see tanning become normal in peoples homes, as it once would have been. Most of the UK's domestic animal skins get exported to other countries or tanned in chemically intensive commercial tanneries, and most wild animal skins are wasted - its heart breaking! We have very high standards when it comes to ethics and the environment [https://www.oakandsmoketannery.co.uk/ethics]. All our skins are by-products of farming and hunting, otherwise discarded.