Sustainable ways of living workshops for young people
The farm is running a series of educational workshops to teach young people about ways to live sustainably. These workshops will offer the opportunity to learn how to use natural and recycled materials to make what we need. There will be key skills taught that equip young people to live a resilient, sustainable life including, growing food, composting, woodworking, sewing, natural dyeing, felting and making simple herbal remedies. Kentish Town City Farm is offering this training at a time when there are few opportunities for young people to learn these skills so we are very pleased to be able to offer this training for free.
The workshops are open to young people aged between 8-21years. They are free to attend but you need to register so we know numbers attending.
Please register by completing this form: Click here
Autumn/early winter workshops:
Using kitchen waste for natural dyes
Saturday November 2nd • 2pm-4.30pm
Come along to learn how to make beautiful colours from things you’ll find in your kitchen. Instead of throwing away your avocado skins and pips use them to make a pink dye, keep your onion skins to make an orangey rust colour and use turmeric for deep yellows and oranges. Learn about the possibilities to create your own colours from plants and dye a scarf to take away with you.
Making natural cosmetics
Saturday November 23rd • 2pm-4.30pm
Come and learn how to make natural cosmetics at this workshop with Medical Herbalist Roisin Reilly.
Using wool to make felted phone cases or pouches
Sunday January 19th • 2pm-4.30pm
Wool is a valuable natural fibre that is frequently treated as waste and burnt by farmers who can’t sell their fleeces. Come and learn how to create felt using the stunning wool from our rare-breed Jacob’s sheep. Make a cosy, padded phone case or a small pouch to take home using different colours. Felting is an ancient craft that originated over 5,000 years ago and is still relied on to make clothes and homes in some parts of the world.
Through the next year there will be the chance to learn how to:
- recycle your clothes instead of throwing them away
- use plants to dye fabric
- use sheep wool to make felt
- recycle pallets to make planters
- compost your kitchen waste
- grow food from seed
- set up a solar panel charger
- use local clay to make pottery pots
- make simple herbal remedies
- cooking a healthy meal using food you’ve grown