


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




Juliet and Christopher Hawkins, The Hall, Milden, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 9NY
Tel: 01787 247235 Email: hawkins@thehall-milden.co.uk