Upcoming Events and Workshops
Butter Making -
Heritage Farm & Craft Experiences
Discover the entire process of making butter, from cow to table. Get hands on with the equipment used by generations before us. Churn your own butter and taste the difference
16th July & 20th Aug
Flax to Linen -
Heritage Farm & Craft Experiences
Learn about planting, growing, harvesting and retting flax. Using cottage industry tools, break, scutch and hackle some flax into linen fibres. Drop spin some linen yarn and discover natural dyes
23rd July & 3rd Sept
Archipelago Festival of Colour
Immerse yourself in a weekend celebration of all things natural colour! An intimate festival dedicated entirely to natural dyes, pigments & inks, honouring the Land that provides them. A weekend for crafters & families to explore plant-based dyes, pigments & inks through workshops & play!
JULY 26th to 27th
Potatoes, Plot to Pot -
Heritage Farm & Craft Experiences
Grown, harvested and processed in Ireland for 400 years. Witness the evolution from hand to horse to tractor power, attempt our beat the scales with a sack of spuds challenge, learn about poitin making and sample some homemade potato bread fresh off the griddle
30th July & 10th Sept
Fire, Feast & Folklore
Step back to a simpler time and peek in the window to an old Irish way of life. Developed in association with Tourism NI’s Embrace a Giant Taste.
Capture the spirit of the past through Fire, Feast and Folklore, authentic Irish rural experiences and fireside feasts on our heritage farm.
Multiple Dates – 2nd Aug, 31st Aug, 27th Sept +
Corn Harvest Time -
Heritage Farm & Craft Experiences
Learn about the staple crop through the evolution of farming through the centuries. Get hands on sowing seed with a fiddle, harvesting with a scythe, threshing with a flail, winnowing the chaff and try your hand at crafting the cailleach from the last sheaf
13th Aug & 17th Sept
Vintage Hand Tool Workshop - Carpenters Stool Making
Connect through the well worn handles of tools used by generations of carpenters. With vintage planes, chisels, augers, drills, gauges and saws learn to feel, hear and see the tools working the wood and appreciate the mastery that has been lost to machines.
27th Aug & 24th Sept