With
fourteen years of experience and success behind them the
Orchard Barn story is both inspiring and informative.
Establishing
a Community Interest Company and undertaking a major renovation as a
series of training projects has not been the quickest, but it has
helped over 3500 people (and counting) learn heritage skills and keep
them relevant to the needs and environmental challenges of the 21st
century.
OBee
CIC specialise in using natural materials sourced from the landscape or
woods. Using a combination of traditional methods and human energy we
teach students and volunteers to convert earth and
trees into buildings.
There
are huge environmental and social benefits to working collectively in
these low impact ways. We can show your group how.
Within
Suffolk, UK our fee for a 50 minute talk is £90 with OBee CEO Sarah
Partridge. At no extra charge she can
bring examples of traditional building materials dating back 500 years.
Travel time outside of county and expenses are negotiable.
TO
BOOK YOUR TALK email sarah@orchardbarn.org.uk
or phone 07766-054042
Choose
the subject you would like for your talk:
- Reinstating
a 1580 timber frame 'like for like'
- Building
with the local landscape!
- Keeping
heritage building skills alive
- Community
building
- Earth
as a building material
- The
story of the hand cut roof and its 20,000 shingles
- Volunteer
projects at Orchard Barn
- Designing
and running an off-grid centre
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