October 2026
Textile Crafts Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 2 – Sun 4 October
(begins 12 noon on the Friday, with lunch) - Price:
- £240 (Veranda room)
£258 (House Room or Garden Cabin) – both prices include 2 nights’ accommodation in the main farmhouse, meals and refreshments and 21/2 days tuition
Non-resident price: £210 (includes lunch and refreshments) - with…
- Mary Maguire
Please note: There will be a £15 charge for materials.
Immerse yourself in a tactile world of textile crafts.
Learn the art of needle-felting to make soft toys, pincushions, or small sculptures. Also create 2D pictures, embellish clothes or a hat, or make decorative repairs to holes in jumpers. You will learn embroidery stitches to make a work of art, or up-cycle a garment.
Book Textile Crafts WeekendOctober Working Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 2 – Sun 4 October
- 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!
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.
Our Working Weekends are run in the beautiful spirit of the WWOOF organisation: we feed and accommodate you, you work, with us.
For more information on WWOOF, see www.wwoof.org.uk.
To request a place on this Working Weekend, please email enquiries@lowershawfarm.co.uk
Yoga and Massage Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 9 – Sun 11 October
- Price:
- £228 (Veranda Room)
£246 (House Room or Garden Cabin) - with…
- Mary Mcinerney and Mary Maguire
Suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners of yoga, classes will focus on postures to improve flexibility, strength, and balance taught in the Iyengar style.
There will also be sessions on giving and receiving a relaxing and toning massage.
On Saturday there will be an early morning Pranayama (breath control) class, then following breakfast, a one-and-a-half-hour asana (postures) class, and a massage class. After lunch the options are to relax at the farm, use the super rustic sauna, or go on a led walk in the local area. In the late afternoon there is a restorative asana session, and a massage class.
In the evening there will be either a guided meditation, or foot baths, or time for a sauna, or to relax around the wood burning stove, or campfire.
On Sunday morning, the programme will be the same as Saturday’s, with a late lunch. Departures during the afternoon, from about 2.30pm.
Group size: up to about 12.
Book October Yoga and Massage WeekendMushrooms Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 16 – Sun 18 October
- Price:
- £219 (Veranda Room)
£237 (House Room)
Children & young people (3-25 yrs) £90 - with…
- Jean Binney and Martin Hawes
In the woods, on the downs, and in the fields of north Wiltshire, over 100 different species of mushrooms and toadstools have been found on our previous courses.
On this weekend, we shall explore fungal habitats, learn how to identify the big, the bad, and the edible ones while discovering their innumerable medicinal and culinary uses; the latter tested by way of fantastic fry-ups.
We will use proceeds from this weekend to make a donation to the Dr Patrick Harding Education Fund.
Book Mushrooms WeekendAutumn Family Activities Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 23 – Sun 25 October
- Price:
- Adult £228
Child 2–21 yrs £152 (second child £143) - with…
- Mary Maguire and farm residents
As the season turns and nights draw in, we mark the change by getting together to spark our creativity. We’ll carve and hollow pumpkins and fill them with light; decorate small lanterns to shine brightly and drive away the darkness; make marzipan skeletons; and light fires and make fire sculptures to remind us of the sun.
A weekend for all ages to get together and be imaginative, and have fun, in autumn!
The weekend begins on Friday evening and finishes after lunch on the Sunday.
Book Autumn Family Activities Weekend