Learning and skills

Much of our work is concerned with rediscovering lost skills – from growing to cooking – and learning new ones.

In our work with schools we’re aiming to foster a reconnection with where food comes from; how it’s grown; how it’s transformed by processing and cooking. The learning possibilities are immense.

But it’s not just at school and college that learning is needed. We’ve pioneered working with Pennine Housing on local housing estates. We’ve helped provide planters for growing, organise volunteers. And with Tony Mulgrew from the HIgh School we’ve run cooking and food awareness events like this.

Our direct involvement in running courses has grown a lot. At first We helped run grafting, permaculture and bee-keeping courses. Now in 2011 we’re partners with Calderdale Adult Learning in running courses in many subjects. See the range here. We cover the basics of growing, skills of pruning and grafting, and more complex and specialised areas like edible fungi, herbal medicine and bees.