Traditional skills for modern life

Find out about the skills you can learn on our courses to enrich your busy life

Email looking odd? View it online HERE Courses       Dining      Restaurants      Vouchers At the start of his River Cottage journey, Hugh headed to the countryside to pursue a rural, seasonal and sustainable way of living. That aspiration continues to be at the heart of everything we do at River Cottage. Our guests often remark that they feel as if they've escaped from their busy modern lives when they visit.  But we are not just a rural idyll. Our seasonal and sustainable approach isn't a fad, it's just good old-fashioned common sense. The skills you learn at River Cottage that used to be the norm are becoming neglected, but they will enrich your everyday life wherever you are. Seasonal eating will become effortlessly simple once you've mastered homemade pastry. A year-round staple,  it's the basis of fruit tarts that maximise late summer fruit, comforting pies and puddings for cold winter days, and summer quiches for balmy evenings.  BOOK NOW Learn some basic butchery skills and enjoy a more traditional way of eating meat where nothing goes to waste. On Pig In A Day you'll be introduced to the basic principles of butchery and will leave knowing how to make your own sausages, cure bacon, and what to do with offal. BOOK NOW Even the language of cheese-making is evocative of traditional skills - curds, whey and truckle. Learn exactly what these are and how to make them on a day of delicious dairy at River Cottage. FIND OUT MORE Bread is frequently maligned these days. But a homemade loaf is leagues away from the store bought, polyethene-wrapped sliced bread packed with sugar and preservatives we often settle for.  FIND OUT MORE Perhaps the epitome of country living, game has become an oddity to many. On this course, you'll gain the skills to prepare and confidently cook wild meat such as grouse, partridge or rabbit.  BOOK NOW Of course, country skills are not confined to the kitchen. Hedgelaying is a traditional, rural craft and this course will teach you how to make your own hedge and wildlife haven in true west country style.  FIND OUT MORE READ ONLINE   Share Tweet Forward

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