Community project providing training courses in traditional building skills that help lower our carbon footprint by using local trees and earth in construction
Suffolk, UK
Joined March 2014
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We're recruiting new #volunteers to help make and dress Sweet Chestnut shingles for our reinstated Long House, Ringshall, #midSuffolk. Free training, fun, friendship and #greengym #communityproject #traditionalhandtools #offgrid #lowcarbon #onceinalifetime #bethechange
ALT Orchard Barn's hand cleft shingle roof made by volunteers about 10 years ago.
We're looking for new #volunteers to help cleave and dress locally grown Sweet Chestnuts logs into #shingles and battens to clad the outside of this #greenoak #longhouse roof at #Ringshall #midsuffolk #communityproject #greengym #fun #skills
ALT Green oak traditional pitch roof frame of Long House, hand curved cranked tie beams.
Hooray! We're making great progress on our third #shingle roof project! #midsuffolk #lowimpact #greenwood #coppice #sweetchestnut #volunteers #communitybuilding #handmade
Delighted to be shortlisted for this Innovation award! #bmsdcinnovationawards #sustainablebuilding #ecoconstruction learning from the past how to build a greener - future one tree at a time!
Want to take your #timberframing further? Places available on 3 day course 17-19 May. Develop your skills and help progress our community project orchardbarn.org.uk/takingtim…
ALT Hand cut green oak timber frame - reinstatement of Suffolk Long House first built in 1580. This is the work of over 250 trainees and volunteers at Orchard Barn.
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Getting ready to make Sweet Chestnut shingles for our Long House roof. This local woodland is about to be recoppiced. Delighted to be locking carbon into our roof AND the regrowth will process up to 3 times more carbon than a standard tree! + lots of volunteer skills development
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Hand converted cranked tie beams in place. Underneath we have two repaired original cross ties. Until we close the reinstated Long House in, we need to keep them dry - hence the black plastic #hewing #traditionalskills #suffolk #timberframe first built in 1580 #volunteerproject
Hand converted cranked tie beams in place. Underneath we have two repaired original cross ties. Until we close the reinstated Long House in, we need to keep them dry - hence the black plastic #hewing #traditionalskills #suffolk #timberframe first built in 1580 #volunteerproject
Our approach to making clay render 1) dig your own clay 2) soak overnight 3) mix 1 part sieved clay slip to 5 parts sand 4) apply! orchardbarn.org.uk/clayrende…
Getting ready to make Sweet Chestnut shingles for our Long House roof. This local woodland is about to be recoppiced. Delighted to be locking carbon into our roof AND the regrowth will process up to 3 times more carbon than a standard tree! + lots of volunteer skills development
New series of land-based craft workshops to connect us with natural materials, rural mid Suffolk and seasonality. Loosely based on the #wheeloftheyear #foraging #bushcraft Practical, skills based activities at Orchard Barn orchardbarn.org.uk/land_base…
Great progress yesterday. Common rafters pegged. #suffolk #longhouse #volunteerproject #traditionalskills more sunshine today!
Good morning, just a quick tweet to say hello. #sunshine here in #midsuffolk Wishing you a lovely day #volunteerprojects #workingwithwood #traditionalcrafts
Proud to have been funded by #heritagefund #hereforculture #traditionalskills training for #volunteers #buildingcommunity - this is their 'practice piece' WELL DONE everyone, and BIG thank-yous to our local timber framer (who is trying to retire!)
ALT Hand-cut timber frame building - reinstatement of Suffolk Long House first raised in 1580, some original timbers repaired and reused, mostly green oak from less than 10 miles away, some hand converted, mostly milled to our cutting list (sizes as original, apart from roof frame which is now much larger timbers!)
Just confirmed #traditionalskills courses including #timberframing #vernacular #building materials #wattleanddaub participants gain experience and skills at the same time as helping our #communityproject grow orchardbarn.org.uk/courses.h…
Little video showing how the edge halved bridled scarf joint on the wall plate was marked and cut. #timberframing #traditionalskills #traditionalcarpentry #vernacularbuilding #midsuffolk youtube.com/watch?v=1ywRgvzE…
#volunteers are making great progress raising this #timberframe #longhouse at Orchard Barn in mid Suffolk - first built in 1580, we're delighted to be reinstating some of the original timbers and crafting new ones in a like for like way! #traditionalskills
