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Training Directory: Practical Countryside Skills Short Courses

Practical Countryside Skills  - Short Training Courses

 

Training in the practical aspects of countryside management techniques such as dry stone walling and hedge laying.

Courses looking at the theory behind these employing these techniques are another page.

Practical training in using and maintaining machinery e.g, chainsaw use, pesticide application and specialist driving courses are on another page.

First aid and health and safely type courses have a separate page.

04/09/2026 • 1 Day

Scything & Meadow Management

Tomintoul Dark Sky Site & Bird Hide, Tomintoul
SCRA Grampian
07827 822419
mark.johnston@crownestatescotland.com c-js.info/473VY2j

Join us on this workshop to learn how to use the European scythe to manage wildflower grasslands. A 0.7ha community wildflower meadow in Tomintoul has been managed by scything for the last five years and the biodiversity increases each year.

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