Learning paths
Where do you
want to go?
Project paths are built around a real goal — a room renovated, a harvest preserved, a workshop set up. Topic tracks follow a subject from first principles to depth.
Project paths
Landscape Your Garden
Seven courses that take a neglected or empty plot from site clearance through design, hard landscaping, water features, planting, and long-term maintenance.
Clear Your Garden
Coming Jan 2027
Design Your Garden
Coming Jan 2027
Build a Garden Deck
Coming Jan 2027
Lay a Patio
Coming Jan 2027
Build a Garden Pond
Coming Feb 2027
Plan Your Planting
Coming Feb 2027
Garden Maintenance
Coming Feb 2027
Grow Your Own
Grow food, find food, and put it up for winter. Four courses that take you through the full cycle of producing and preserving your own food.
Beekeeping — Your First Hive
Coming Oct 2026
Renovate a Room
The four skills that cover most of what a room renovation actually requires — patching walls, tiling, painting, and the basic repairs you'd otherwise pay someone else to do.
Patching and Plastering Walls
Coming Nov 2026
How to Tile a Bathroom or Kitchen
Coming Nov 2026
Painting and Decorating: Do It Properly
Coming Nov 2026
Set Up a Workshop
How to set up a workshop from nothing, then fill it with skills. Joinery, repairs, electronics — everything you need to fix and build.
Setting Up Your First Workshop or Shed
Coming Dec 2026
Electronics — The Basics
Coming Aug 2026
The Outdoors
Four courses for being useful and confident outdoors — whether you're on a bike, on foot, in a hedgerow, or dealing with an emergency.
Bicycle Touring
Coming Jul 2026
First Aid Essentials
Coming Oct 2026
Your Space
Five courses for creating intentional spaces — a home office or den, a workshop, a greenhouse, a balcony garden, and a vegetable allotment. Each one is a place you'll want to spend time in.
Setting Up Your First Workshop or Shed
Coming Dec 2026
The Smallholder
Everything you'd want to know to make serious use of a piece of land — from the kitchen garden and the hive to preserving and fermenting what you grow.
Topic tracks
Creative Track
A sequence through the visual arts — drawing first, then watercolour, then oil, then printmaking. Each one builds on what came before.
Oil Painting — Getting Started
Coming Aug 2026
Linocut Printing
Coming Jul 2026
Maker Track
Leather, fabric, yarn, paper — four courses in working with materials by hand. Everything you make, you'll keep.
Bookbinding — Your First Journal
Coming Aug 2026
Music Track
Guitar first — the hardest and most rewarding. Then ukulele and piano when you want something different.
Ukulele — Your First Songs
Coming Sept 2026
Piano for Adults
Coming Sept 2026
Kitchen Track
Bread, sourdough, pasta, coffee, fermentation — the core skills of a kitchen that works without shortcuts.
Pasta — From Scratch
Coming Oct 2026
Mind & Body Track
Meditation and running — two practices that compound quietly over months and years.
Life Skills Track
Public speaking, journaling, and the practices that compound quietly into sharper thinking and clearer expression.
Ace the Job Interview
Coming Feb 2027
Fix & Build Track
The courses that make you the person who doesn't need to call anyone — repairs, joinery, electronics.
Electronics — The Basics
Coming Aug 2026