We offer a range of courses on keeping livestock and on all of them we try to show the whole process from keeping the animals to their slaughter and eating the products.

The pigkeeping course, for example, covers keeping pigs and making sausages. Our poultry keeping courses, unlike many other courses, show you how to slaughter a chicken, pluck it and dress it for the table. These are especially useful skills if you want to raise chickens for meat.

Our 'A Day at the Empire Farm' gift vouchers are popular gifts for birthday and Christmas.

Read about specific courses below or, to see all the courses currently planned, check out the latest course dates.