Do you want to milk a cow, build a bothy, or plant a forest? Be an archaeologist, a poet, a weaver? Come outdoors and get stuck in to shieling life with us.
The Shieling Project is an off-grid learning centre based in Glen Strathfarrar, near Beauly in the Highlands of Scotland. The project is all about outdoor living – from looking after our livestock to making real buildings, from weaving baskets to making burgers from the meat we have raised here. The tradition of the shieling where folk lived outdoors all summer herding the cattle, gives us a window onto the past, but also helps us look forward to a sustainable future.
We are having a launch event for our brand new bothies! Come and visit on Friday 22nd June (10am-12noon) or Saturday 23rd June (10.30am-3pm). See the new accommodation, meet some of the people who the bothies are dedictaed to, and who inspired our project, and celebrate an important milestone with us. Please get in touch to let us know you’re coming.
Am bu mhath leibh bò a bhleoghainn, bothan a thogail neo coille a chur as ùr? Am bu mhath leibh a bhith nur n-arc-eòlaichean, nur bàird, neo nur breabadairean? Thigibh a-mach dhan àraineachd agus feuch dòigh beatha na h-àirighe còmhla rinn!
’S e ionad ionnsachaidh neo-eisimileach a th’ ann am Pròiseact na h-Àirighe, a chaidh a stèidheachadh taobh a-muigh siostaman dealain is goireasan phoblach àbhaisteach. Ionnsachaidh daoine mu dheidhinn a bhith beò air a’ bhlàr a-muigh. Bidh sinn a’ togail bothain. Bidh sinn a’ dèanamh basgaidean, agus burgairean bho mart-fheòil ar cuid sprèidh fhèin. Bha muinntir an àite a’ fuireach a-muigh mar sin, air an làrach againn, airson an samhradh air fad. Seo agaibh sealladh air na laithean a dh’ fhalbh. Tro na cleachdaidhean aca, togaidh sinn beachd air mar as urrainn dhuinne a bhith beò ann an saoghal ùr, seasmhach san àm ri teachd.
This week our feed will be about our Craft Holidays - a wonderful week for people who want to understand the local culture through their hands. Our programme: basket weaving, wool dyeing, felting, turf building, preserving, spoon making. https://t.co/ZwU1nZCtAp #craftholiday https://t.co/2KOZde7AGe
This week our feed will be about our Craft Holidays - a wonderful week for people who want to understand the local culture through their hands. Our programme: basket weaving, wool dyeing, felting, turf building, preserving, spoon making. https://t.co/ZwU1nZCtAp #craftholiday pic.twitter.com/2KOZde7AGe
— The Shieling Project (@shielingproject) May 21, 2018
Three weeks of wonderful weather, lovely schools residentials and birdsong. What a great start to our season. If your local school is interested in a residential trip there’s still time to book for autumn 2018, and we’re taking bookings for 2019 https://t.co/F7j0Z2hbx3 https://t.co/AktBSWoxia
Three weeks of wonderful weather, lovely schools residentials and birdsong. What a great start to our season. If your local school is interested in a residential trip there’s still time to book for autumn 2018, and we’re taking bookings for 2019 https://t.co/F7j0Z2hbx3 pic.twitter.com/AktBSWoxia
— The Shieling Project (@shielingproject) May 18, 2018
This looks great! https://t.co/KBmWI0LNGz
Join us for our first ever festival of nature writing & illustration 19/20 May. A unique opportunity to (re)connect with the natural world through inspirational talks, lively Q&A sessions, workshops & tours against the backdrop of #TheLostWords exhibition https://t.co/LsvNaDInRy pic.twitter.com/J55RPMXmp8
— RBGE (@TheBotanics) April 23, 2018
Join us for our first ever festival of nature writing & illustration 19/20 May. A unique opportunity to (re)connect with the natural world through inspirational talks, lively Q&A sessions, workshops & tours against the backdrop of #TheLostWords exhibition https://t.co/LsvNaDInRy https://t.co/J55RPMXmp8
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Photos by the Shieling Project, Mhairi Baird, George Logan and David Powell