At 5EyesFarm-Lab, we offer some simple, traditional workshops alongside some less common hands-on workshops and also some life experience workshops.

Check these out – have a think – tell us what you would like to see here and give your feedback on what you might be interested in.

Simple food workshops

• making yoghurt
• making bread
• harvest and prepare cassava

Hands-on workshops

• restore a furniture piece: learn techniques, skills and process for selecting and restoring a piece of furniture including repair, preparation and finishing. Bring your own piece and make it sing. (Transferable skills).

• build with natural materials: building requires planning, making a lot of decisions and understanding structure and some engineering. Learn to build a section and use, stone, mud or upcycled products as a practical workshop learning  for your own project inspiration. (confidence building)

• create a raised garden: learn about the soil/substrate/microorganisms and biodiversity while preparing a raised garden ‘layer bed’ and experience the theory and practice together. This is a major regenerative garden practice with long term benefits.

• learn composting: There are many different ways to compost and some advanced additions to the composting cycle that can help you in small or bigger settings to feed your plants well. Learn to compost with different  methods and discover enzymes in the process.

• explore fermentation: one of the oldest traditional ways to naturally preserve foods and to also alter the composition, taste and health of food to create wonderful possibilities. Fermentation follows a bacterial cycle and is a fascinating workshop with a basis in the hands on process that can be adapted to a wide range of applications.

• raise animals naturally: from the environment/shelter to the food making and the cost-effective ratios of raising animals for consumption – including animal care, ethics and health and well-being – this course is for everyone interested in raising fish, chickens, ducks or other poultry – and rabbits too!

Life experience

• writing wild: this is a stillness course in the natural context of the farm that is designed to prompt inspiration for writing. Inside each of us is a life as yet unlived – and we are a wild mix of inner child and evolving human. Tap your own energy in a writing Wild workshop and see where it takes you – you will be surprised.

• mindful living: is a course idea for a community of those who want to seek a healthy option for food, lifestyle, mindfulness, reshaping our response to consumer frameworks, tapping creativity, vitality and inspiration for living our passions. The idea behind this is to access inspiration from the farm but maintain an online community around different related topics.