November 2012
Lower Shaw Farm Cookery School 
- Date:
- 9 – 11 November
- Price:
- £150 • includes accommodation and all meals and refreshments (if no accommodation is required, £105)
- with…
- Lower Shaw Farm cooks: Andrea and Josie
Would you like to expand your repertoire in the kitchen and discover how to cook a range of new ingredients, and do some interesting things with the more familiar ones? As well as learning how to prepare tasty and nutritious vegetarian meals and snacks, the cookery course will give you the opportunity to learn about healthy eating from our nutritional therapist Josie Cowgill. Josie will be on hand to answer questions, clear up all the mixed messages and myths about foods and diets, and give advice on different dietary needs. You will go home with many new recipes, and the inspiration to be creative in the kitchen!
Arrive between 5pm and 7pm on the Friday.
Course finishes after lunch on Sunday (about 3pm).
Book November Cookery School!Down to Earth – death, dying, and green burial 
- Date:
- Saturday 17th November
- Time:
- 10am – 4pm
- Price:
- £60
- with…
- Sue Brayne and Liz Rothschild
A chance to talk about death, dying, caring for the dying, plans for the future and for after death. An opportunity to gather practical information, reflect on what you need, and share experiences. Suitable for those caring for someone terminally ill, facing illness themselves, or simply wishing to gather information and think about their own death, and related plans.
Sue Brayne is author of The D Word, and a psychotherapist of many years’ experience. Liz Rothschild is a celebrant and guardian of Westmill Woodland Burial Ground just outside Swindon.
Book Down to Earth!Working Weekend 
- Date:
- 23 – 25 November
- Price:
- No Charge
This is a chance to get to know the farm, turn your hand to old jobs and new, enjoy good company and good food too!
Our Working Weekends are run in the beautiful spirit of the wonderful WWOOF organisation: we feed and accommodate you, you work, with us. No money changes hands.
An opportunity to have bright ideas by the compost heap, happy talk in the hen house, and cool chat in the kitchen. Join us to prove that many hands make light work and that today’s stranger is tomorrow’s friend.
For more information on WWOOF, see www.wwoof.org.uk.
Book Working Weekend!