Country crafts & skills at Milden Hall

Explore, enjoy and respect the countryside

Activities vary with time of year and availability of tutor but here’s a taster of activities that can be done as part of an eco-challenge team day;

• Skin a rabbit or pluck a pheasant
• Make a fire that leaves no trace
• Whittle hazel sticks with penknives
• Sew leaves
• Design, collect for & weave flower garlands
• Make baskets
• Weave spheres & birds
• Make rush platters
• Forage responsibly for free food – fungi, berries
• Conservation challenges – tree planting, transplant turves, bee nests
• Identify trees, shrubs, flowers, birds, insects
• Put on a play to get a green message across
• I’m a cool green teenager
• So you want to be a nature reserve warden
• Make nettle soup