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Empire Farm - organic farm with farm school, butchery, with poultry and pigs, bees > Farm School > Smallholder Courses

Smallholder Courses

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.


Smallholder Day

The Smallholder Day is aimed at the 'would-be' smallholder or the new smallholder wanting to find out more about running a smallholding, pros and cons of keeping different animals and the rules and regs. .

Smallholder Day

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Bee-keeping for Beginners

The perfect course to get you started with bee-keeping, aimed at beginners with no experience of keeping bees.Bee-keeping for Beginners

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A Taste of Bee-keeping

A three-hour taster session to give you a look at bee-keeping and what it involvesA Taste of Bee-keeping

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Beginner's chickens

Want to keep a few chickens for eggs? Find out more on this introductory course. Ideal afternoon for families

Beginner's chickens

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Keeping Poultry Day

This is a day learning about poultry, including how to house, feed and care for them. You'll also learn how to slaughter, prepare and cook your birds.

Keeping Poultry Day

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Keeping Chickens for Meat Day

This is a day learning about meat chickens, including how to house, feed and care for them. You'll also learn how to slaughter, prepare and cook your birds.

Keeping Chickens for Meat Day

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Keeping Pigs Day

So you want to keep a couple of pigs for meat? Not sure where to start. Then this is the course for you.

Keeping Pigs Day

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Making apple juice

Join an afternoon course to find out how to make your own delicious apple juice.

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An introduction to cider making


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