The Hay Box Project -  money saving 'grandma' skills 

The Hay Box Project is run from our Artful Drumming cafe at the Unitarian Hall in Newport on the Isle of Wight.

It is aimed at helping families and individuals save money by re creating valuable skills that our grandparents or great grandparents may have used.

The workshops are funded by the Lottery so are free of charge to attend. They run on a Saturday. 

We will add more workshops by popular request. This could include upcycling clothes, growing food for free, forgaing, macrame and making tinctures as examples. 

Skill One
Build your own thermal cooker
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Some foods are all the more delicious for slow and steady cooking
​Create your own thermal cooking system for all those delicious slow cooked stews with minimal use of electric or gas
​Skill Four
Recipes for Thermal Cooking 
This workshop includes exchanging ideas and recipes for thermal cookery

The intent is to create a community cookery book for local Foodbanks to provide 

Skill Two
​Basics of Keeping Chickens

Freshly laid eggs by your own chickens provide a great source of protein and nutrients

​Learn the skills of keeping happy and healthy chickens
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​Skill  Five
​Baking bread using your thermal cooker 

​Who doesnt love the smell of freshly baked bread? 
In this workshop we will give you several ideas on how to bake your own

Skill Three
​Make a salve 
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In times gone past grandma had her own healing recipes

Learn the very simple skill of making one such salve for achey joints 

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Skill Six
​Knitting 
Make a pair of slippers

If you dont know how to knit but always wanted to learn then this workshop is for you
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​If you are a skilled knitter then do please come along and lend some support to others 
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