Learning

At Down to Earth we use imaginative and creative approaches to learning which are centred around the learners’ needs… 

 

We offer engaging and real approaches to learning about sustainability and global citizenship tailored to meet individual and/or group requirements.

 

Click here to download the Calendar of Courses 2008

 

We offer workshops in:

• Traditional and natural building: earth (cob), straw bale and timber framing
• Building ovens, benches and walls out of earth (cob),
• Growing food organically
• Baking bread in a wood-fired earth oven
• Introduction to Bushcraft – fire lighting, shelter building
• Traditional crafts – green woodwork
• Cultural Diversity
• Citizenship
• Woodland skills and management

These learning experiences can be Open College Network (OCN) accredited, if desired.

 

These workshops can be hosted on our land on the Gower, or in your own locality.  Contact us for more information.

 

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development – and turn it into a reality for all the world’s people

Kofi Annan - Secretary General to the United Nations March 2001