Ria will be teaching natural dyeing workshops as part of the programme at ORFC in the Field at Fernhill Farm this April.

The two day event focuses on practical on-farm learning about working with wool, adding value to your fleece and building a fibre business.

Tickets are on sale now! https://orfc.org.uk/event/wool-orfc-fernhill-farm/

Join us at ORFC in the Field at Fernhill Farm

7 - 8th April 2026

Working with Wool: Field to Fleece Workshops at an Eco Farm in Somerset

Join ORFC in the Field at Fernhill Farm for two days of on-farm learning and connection this Spring. Dig into working with the wonders of wool, raising rare breed sheep, experimenting with natural dyes, and building your own fibre business in Somerset’s beautiful Chew Valley.

Over two days, you can expect practical and creative opportunities:

- Fernhill Farm tour: conservation grazing and building a thiving fibre business

- Hands-on blade shearing demo with a speciality fibre flock

- Yarn, felt, fabric or mulch? Grading fleece for processing

- Breed selection and management for conservation grazing and fleece quality

- How to: wool marketing and development for your wool business

- Discovering the world of natural colour with dyes for fleece and yarn

- Leather-making from Fernhill cattle hides

- Felting, knitting, and learning to spin fleece

- Networking, social connections and more!

We are offering a limited number of subsidised tickets for students; young people (under 25); BPOC; part-time, low-waged, and/or unpaid workers; new entrant farmers; and anyone otherwise unable to attend.