There are a range of courses on offer in 2012:
Lammas Experience Weeks/ Weekends
in which participants get to experience a wide range of low-impact building and living activities (including talks and evening events) across the Tir y Gafel ecovillage
and
Eco-Building Courses
in which participants learn low-impact building skills through assisting with building projects on the Tir y Gafel ecovillage plots
and
Lammas Ecovillage Conferences
in which participants explore how to participate in establishing an ecovillage
and
Sacred Retreats
In which participants explore the sacred within themselves in a creative and
nourishing, loving environment at one of the Tir y Gafel ecovillage plots
Please click on title or scroll down to view details:
2012 Courses at a glance
All these courses will take place at the Lammas ecovillage-
Details below
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Lammas Low Impact Experience Week 2012
with
Hoppi Wimbush
  
Are you looking to explore how a more sustainable lifestyle might work for you?
Lammas Low Impact Experience Weeks
offer a broad range of sustainable solutions
to meet the challenges of a society in transition.
Activities will include:
- Hands-on experience of a wide variety of green building techniques from reciprocal framed round houses to timber framed barns.
- Getting down to earth and experiencing ways to earn a living from the land. Examples include orchard management, growing food, a range of land-based crafts and businesses, woodland management and animal husbandry (activities will vary from week to week depending on season and opportunity)
- Tracing the journey of food from field to plate
- Exploring the current planning system in Wales for establishing low impact lifestyles.
- Gaining insight into living creatively.
Accomodation options include free camping with fire pit and wood supply near to the beautiful millpond framed by ancient oak and ash trees, or staying in a range of friendly local B & B's (details available on request)
Course fees:
£250
(if you pay a retainer deposit of £50 to secure your place)
£240
(for payment in full)
Price includes
all meals and self service breakfast
(Sumptuous vegetarian)
Dates:
Arrive - Sat 30th June
Depart - Fri 6th July Small number of concessions available
please ask
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TO BOOK NOW
CLICK HERE
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
lowimpact.week@lammas.org.uk
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Quotes from previous Low Impact Experience weeks:
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"Lammas is an amazing place to stay. Wonderful spot, wonderful surroundings, wonderful people, great experiences and oh....the food is delicious"
Rik van der Helm (April 2010)
"An inspiring week, meeting lots of wonderful people, and being immersed in an environment that makes you feel like anything is possible if you are willing to take the first steps and open your heart."
Matt E (April 2010) |
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Land, Hands and Heart
Exploring sustainable living at Lammas
With Melissa Holloway
Want to learn more about living with the land?
Come and join us at Tir-y-Gafel - Lammas Low Impact Initiative’s first eco-village    
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During the week we will:
- Live simply
- Work alongside residents in creating their plots
- Explore different land-based activities from gardening to eco-building
- Discuss Permaculture design principles and how they are being applied
- Learn how to weave a simple basket or forage for wild food
- Discuss planning issues and the possibilities of creating a similar project here in Wales
- Visit other local examples of low impact living
- Celebrate our time together with a twmpath (dance) with live music
 
We will be based at the community hub, a purpose built low-impact building complete with hall and kitchen.
Free camping on the village green near the millpond. Or if you would prefer, there is a selection of local B&B’s to stay in. Please ask for details
Course fees:
£250
(if you pay a retainer deposit of £50 to secure your place)
£240
(for payment in full)
Price includes Camping and
Delicious, mainly organic, vegetarian meals
Dates:
Arrive - Sat 28th April
Depart –Sat 5th May
Small number of concessions available
please ask
“Melissa is a great teacher - , informative, knowledgeable and friendly.She is very attentive & considerate to all levels.” Feedback from basket making course held at Denmark Farm 2010
To book or for more information please email:melissa.holloway@rocketmail.com
or call 01994 419 091
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Lammas Family Adventure Camp
exploring sustainable living at Lammas
With Melissa Holloway
Want to learn more about living with the land?
Come and join us at Tir-y-Gafel - Lammas Low Impact Initiative’s first eco-village
   
Activities include:
- Exploring different land-based activities from gardening to eco-building
- Helping to build a cob greenhouse – suitable for children and adults
- Forest School activities – cooking on a fire, learning bush craft skills, playing games
- Foragingfor wild food and cooking up a storm with Rosie, our cook
- Learning to make a simple willow basket
- Storytelling round the fire
All activities are suitable for children and adults, or there will be a children’s activity eg. Forest Schools running parallel to an adult activity eg. Helping out on plots. There will also be down time every day to just be and enjoy the beauty of the site.
 
We will be based at the community hub, a purpose built low-impact building complete with hall and kitchen.
Free camping on the village green near the millpond. Or if you would prefer, there is a selection of local B&B’s to stay in. Please ask for details.
Please note: Children remain the responsibility of their parents/guardians at all times.
There is an unfenced millpond, water channels and an open fire pit. Also all plots are still in the process of building.
Dates:
Arrive – Mon 27th August
Depart –Thurs 30th August
Course fees:
£100 for the first adult
£75 for the second adult
£40 per child under 7
£50 per child over 7
Price includes camping
and
delicious, mainly organic, vegetarian meals with most of the vegetables from our gardens
Small number of concessions available
please ask
Melissa is a trained Forest School Leader and weaver of baskets and talltales
“Melissa is a great teacher - , informative, knowledgeable and friendly.She is very attentive & considerate to all levels.” Feedback from basket making course held at Denmark Farm 2010
To book or for more information please email: melissa.holloway@rocketmail.com
or call 01994 419091
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Tir y Gafel Eco-building Courses
at
Plas Helyg, tir-y-gafel, Lammas
run by Nigel & Cassie Lishman
plas.helyg@lammas.org.uk
All courses are run by Cassie & Nigel Lishman, both experienced workshop leaders, self build ‘eco-builders’ and members of the Live Lightly Co-operative www.livelightly.co.uk
Eco-Building Courses
In our last eco build course we raised part of the cruck frame of a roundwood barn, and began the cob greenhouse. We will be continuing to build these two structures over the course of 2012.
The timber framing includes making mortice and tenon joints, framing the floor, raising the second half of the frame, roofing and cladding. Cob building includes rubble bag wall building, slate stem wall building using lime mortar, cob mixing and building insetting windows as we build. All jobs dependent on progress of build, email for details.
Eco-building courses cost £250 per person including all food and camping for 6 nights, max 8 people.
Course Dates 2012:
- May 13th – 19th - timber barn
- June 3rd – 9th - cob greenhouse
- June 17th – 23rd – cob greenhouse
- September 9th-15th - timber barn
- September 23rd – 29th - timber barn
Course content includes:
- What is Low Impact Development?
- In depth tour of Plas Helyg
- Permaculture approach to land and building design
- 5 days of hands on eco-building including ongoing Health & safety training
- Tour of the Tir-y-Gafel community, including visiting at least two other eco-builds here at Tir-y-Gafel
- Tour of the Community Hub building
The facilities provided at Plas Helyg include:
- Camping space in our young orchard or next to our willow coppice
- solar showers and wood burning bath
- delicious organic vegetarian meals cooked on site each day
- a warm yurt to relax and socialise in each evening
- a firepit nearby to light and enjoy when the weather is fair
- time out to explore the communal areas of 75 acres of beautiful land
- great company, and loads of new skills!
You need to bring:
- tent and warm bedding
- waterproof clothing and wellies
- steel toecap workboots for the timber framing course
- torch
- towel and biodegradeable soap
Please let us know if you have trouble bringing any of these items, we may be able to help.
Arrival time: by 3pm on the Sunday
Departure time: by 3pm on the following Saturday
Some concessions may be available, please ask.
Booking essential as places are limited. If you have a disability, please contact us as we aim to try to make this experience accessible to all.
To book or for more information
contact
plas.helyg@lammas.org.uk
01994 419781
 
Quotes from previous courses:
'it was very practical and we had time to practice on each skill it was also very empowering!' Sylvia, July 2011
'I was taught a good number of 'eco-building' skills during the week and was able to take part in many tasks I've never previously tackled and certainly would hope to incorporate some of these methods into my own home and garden in the future. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this course...I spent a week in a Utopian state – how do you put a price on that!'' Jane, July 2011
'It’s been some time since my attitude to the day’s work ahead was filled with so much enthusiasm.' Hugh, July 2011
ALSO
Willow sculpture
March 16th – 18th 2012
Come and help design and create living and woven willow structures at Tir-y-Gafel, Lammas. We will explore all aspects of willow work including coppicing, planting, design and weaving. You will learn small scale woven sculpture, including something to take home with you, as well as learning how to create a large scale living willow sculpture. You will also be able to take cuttings home from my 12 varieties of willow.
Course cost: £150 per person including all materials, 8 people maximum.
Course includes;
- Two days and nights camping at Plas Helyg, only 500 metres from the hub building
- solar showers and wood burning bath
- delicious organic vegetarian meals cooked on site each day
- a warm yurt to relax and socialise in each evening
- a firepit nearby to light and enjoy when the weather is fair
You must bring:
- Tent and warm bedding
- Waterproof clothing and wellies
- Torch
Arrival by Friday 5pm
Leave by Sunday 5pm
To book or for more information
contact
plas.helyg@lammas.org.uk
01994 419781
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Lammas Ecovillage Conference 2012
1st & 2nd September
(Sat & Sun)
If you are inspired by the Lammas project and dream of gathering with people of like mind who'd like to get to grips with the realities of creating an ecovillage - then book onto this exciting ecovillage conference
This event will cover:
- Visioning your ecohome/ ecovillage
- Current planning policy in Wales (TAN6, One Planet Development)
- What to look for when buying land
- What constitutes land-based livelihoods
- Finance and legal
- Possible decision making structures
Prices
£75
(if you pay a retainer deposit of £30 and pay the rest on arrival)
£65
(if you pay in full)
price includes all meals
(Delicious Vegetarian)
and
self service breakfast
Booking
TO BOOK NOW
CLICK HERE
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
hoppi.wimbush@lammas.org.uk
with 'ecovillage conference' in the subject bar
Free Camping is available
or
a list of local friendly B & B's on request
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Sacred Retreats at Lammas ecovillage
with Hoppi Wimbush
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Flower Essences and the Divine Feminine
Fri 22nd - Sun 24th June 2012
This course is steeped in creative expression. Using flowers, painting, yoga, movement, music, poetry and chanting we will invoke the Divine Feminine and drop deeply into the heart centre to create MOTHER TINCTURE flower essences from which individual blends for your personal use will be drawn. Deeply nurturing and profound.. this course is perfect to
SIMPLY BE STILL AND LISTEN
All Veg food and Camping included in the price
£140
(when you pay in full)
£150
(when you pay a deposit and the balance on arrival)
Limited Number of Concessionary Places Available
Please Ask
TO BOOK NOW
CLICK HERE
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
hoppi@hoppiwimbush.co.uk
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Art and Soul
Fri 5th - Sun 7th Oct 2012
Nature is deeply healing. By connecting with the quiet wisdom of the earth we can understand ourselves so much more. This retreat explores our relationship to our own sacred self using painting, sculpture, movement, poetry, music and song all in or with our MOTHER NATURE.
Come and open your heart in a safe, beautiful, nourishing environment
Let your radiance shine out!
All Veg food and Camping included in the price
£140
(when you pay in full)
£150
(when you pay £30 deposit and the balance on arrival)
Limited Number of Concessionary Places Available
Please Ask
TO BOOK NOW
CLICK HERE
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
hoppi@hoppiwimbush.co.uk
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