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Charcoal Making courses

The aims of our charcoal courses

The aim of this course is to give you the skills necessary to run your own hearth successfully.

The course will be taylored to the attendees requirements.

We offer a number of options to make the course truly unique:

  1. A basic course covering the use of our oil barrel kiln and Hookway retort. this had become our most popular course and can be covered in a day
  2. A more in depth course covering the use of both Ring kiln and Exeter charcoal retort from loading to fireing and bagging, this is a 3-5 day course and covers a lot of ground.

 

We will cover:

  •        Charcoal history
  •        Selection of timber
  •        Loading the kiln
  •        Running the kiln
  •        Shutting down the burn
  •        Emptying the kiln and grading the charcoal
Charcoal making course - our ring kilns lit for the first time the 17th of July 2008

Charcoal history

The art of making charcoal has been practiced for at least 8000 years, we call it an art because it uses every human sense to get it right.

While the techniques we teach date from the 19th and 20th centuries the skills go all the way back to the first charcoal burners.

As well as the History of charcoal making we will look at the landscape and how it can help and hinder the charcoal burner.

 

You may also be interested in some of our other courses

Important Information

You will also have a chance to look at our own Grown in Britain certified woodland here inthe heart of Hamshire and how we manage it, the importance of that management to the woodland and the charcoal process.

The course will be run in our own woodland based in the heart to the Hampshire Southdowns, nr Petersfield.

The course runs over 1-2 days depeding on the content and your requirements. These are truly despoke courses.

Food and refreshments

There will be an ample supply of tea/coffee on tap but no other food is provided, we can of course set up the bbq if requested.

location

Unless otherwise stated all of our courses will be carried out in our own woodland here in Clanfield Hampshire.

Over last 20 years we have been working to restore and improve both the condition and habit with on our own woodland, as part of that we have been monitoring the plants with in the woodland.

Accommodation

There are a good number of local hotels and b and b’s in the area for which we can give you detail on application.

Costs 

for costs and to book a place on one of our course please click over to our shop

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