The joy of handmaking

Craft workshops

Get your hands dirty

The first workshops in 2025 will be in the garden pending completion of work on the mill and barn.

• Workshops in the vegetable patch: participate in the season's work. Preparing the soil, sowing, planting, weeding, mulching, composting or harvesting. There's nothing like a good session in the garden to calm anxieties and reconnect with the soil.
• Workshops in the orchard : depending on the season, learn how to prune, graft and care for fruit trees.
• Workshops in the field: depending on the speaker, learn how to identify plants, about permaculture principles, or work with farm animals.

Take matter into your own hands

Once the barn is renovated, DIY workshops will be held with passionate craftsmen sharing their know-how on carpentry, mechanics, electricity, pottery, etc.

It will also be an opportunity to 'make do with what we have', using available resources to transform and adapt an object rather than buying a new one. It's a way of recycling and preserving the planet's dwindling resources.

The Moulin des Etrebières invites you to rediscover forgotten techniques and to reconnect with matter.

All hands on (the kitchen) deck

Once the mill has been fitted out, we will have culinary workshops (bread making, batch cooking, jam, preserves, cheese, etc.) and creative arts workshops (sewing, knitting, crochet, basketry). Conferences can also be held in the main room on trees, permaculture or other, although the aim is not to stick to theory but to learn to DO in the field, to touch, to shape - in a word, to create.