SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY - COURSES - EVENTS - TALKS

What skills would you need if you were going to live as sustainably as possible? That's the theme for all of my courses - they're all about using hand tools, growing food and making everything you need locally with local materials, building up resilient local networks, re-designing the things and systems we use creatively...

Designing and making a couple of shelving projects from scratch at Inverquiech

For the last few years, I've been running courses mostly at two venues, Perth Community Farm, and with Kate Everett at Inverquiech Farm. They're quite different, Perth Community Farm is just a few blocks from the city centre, while Inverquiech is well off the beaten track near Alyth. Both are excellent venues in their own way and wonderful places to visit.

Inverquiech is in an idyllic woodland setting just by the confluence of the Alyth Burn and the River Isla

I've been teaching Woodwork, Gardening, Fruit Tree Pruning and Woodland Management, Compost Making, also various complementary healthcare techniques and at the moment (July 2025) am in the process of adding new courses in creativity and making simple musical instruments for fun.

A lot of my teaching is for complete beginners - in the woodwork classes I really enjoy seeing women and men, often with no previous experience at all, make something from scratch they can take home. Brilliant!

A class clutching their projects outside the Inverquiech workshop

I have millions of photos from all the eco projects I've worked on over the years and am always delighted to give put together slide shows and talks on the practical nuts and bolts of sustainable living.

Early eco days pruning olive trees with Janet and Clive in Portugal

Me and Ruth outside the LogCabivan with Silver 

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