This project encourages and supports community in relearning how to work, rest and play together, co-operatively with nature, for the great good.

Orchard Barn Environmental Education Community Interest Company (OBee CIC) Registration Number 6379982 - Wildfire Designs 2007 Photographs by Richard Smithson, Sarah Partridge, Verity Mansfield, Tony Mounter, Simon Clarke

Do you want to learn traditional skills and work in the fresh air?

We are looking for Volunteers

Weekend dates: 9/10 January, 13/14 February, 13/14 March, 10/11 April, 8/9 May 2010

Jack's Visit April 2010

November 2009

Orchard Barn is at Ringshall, Suffolk (5 miles from Stowmarket)

We are looking for volunteers willing to give a day, a week, weekends (2nd Weekend every month) or longer. 

Please call Sarah on 077660-54042 or email Justine to discuss your availability.

Moving photos on the right from our December 09 Volunteer weekend. A BIG thank-you to all who came and helped - split and nail hazel wattle to the roof battens, put tiles back on the East lean-to roof (they had been off for a year), mixed and applied daub (cob by another name), and made an Oak plank gutter - to begin the rainwater harvesting!

In the spring/summer (2010) we can offer you opportunities to learn how to build with Cob (clay, hogging and straw), repair flint walls, make and fit oak shingles, split hazel and more .....