Courses-Training-Events

Training venue

Interesting meeting rooms and a giant tipi with access to broadband, projectors, whiteboards, delicious home produced food and snacks

Ideal for:

• Skills training
• Team building or strategy development
• Idea generation days

Courses of specialist interest or to enable you to come away with some interesting new knowledge and skills whether you're on holiday or on a training day.

• Pig keeping
• Cooking, charcuterie, sausage, ham, bacon, etc.
• Green woodworking (Bodging!)
• Charcoal making
• Gardening
• Wine tasting

Courses are run by

Olivia hatch who worked as a chef under Gary Rhodes and Fergus Henderson and then set up London Farmers Markets with Nina Plank before running her own small holding here at Talton Lodge.

Mike Ashton who is a trained gardner and horticulturist and enthusiast for all things rural from archery to charcoal making and bodging.

Andrew Watson who has been selecting, keeping and tasting wine since the 1960s.

Next courses available for booking:

We are running our next sausage-making course on Wednesday, September 10th. This will be hands on, making a batch of sausages using our pork. It will cover basic butchery skills, information about all the ingredients and techniques used in sausage making, and finish off with tastings of what we've made.  The day will also include a lunch made from our home produce.

£90/person. There are a maximum of 6 people on each course, so it can be adapted to what each individual wants to know, whether it be talking about pig husbandry, making a salami, or making a particular type of sausage.Get in touch to book your place. 

If you want to stay overnight in our cottage, tipi, or yurt, there will be a £10 discount/night if you are doing a course.

Contact us on 0796 227 3417 or email us at liv@hatch.me.uk