Learn with us how you can utilize sheep fleece in gardening projects - mulching beds and tree circles, for suppressing weeds and retaining moisture.

This learning and volunteering session is organized in collaboration with Highland Wool CIC for sheep owners local to Caithness, to help them learn how to prep their fleeces for further use.

This is the final event in collaboration with Castle and Gardens of Mey.

Come with us for the autumnal clean up session to the lovely Mey gardens and help the team of gardeners with preparing the gardens for the winter time, and get a chance to collect seeds, flowers and cuttings from the impressive collection of plants in the garden.

At this workshop, you will learn about various weaving techniques and will get an exciting opportunity to use a weaving loom so make your own fabric!

You will get a priceless opportunity to learn how to spin yarn from sheep wool from wonderful Ann Johnson, Regional Leader of the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers for Scotland and Northern Ireland, featured on BBC, and her colleagues.

Thurso Community Development Trust, as a member of Highland Community Waste Partnership, are organizing Circular Caithness Fair to support and promote circular economy of Caithness.

At this workshop, we carry on learning how we can utilize such an amazing and sustainable resource like sheep wool.

Together with our amazing instructor Garance Warburton, we shall explore how fibers and fabric can be dyed with various natural materials, with help of easily accessible equipment that we all use in our day-to-day life.

Come to Thurso Precinct and learn how to make your own garden composter!

We shall be giving away flat-packed kits for making garden composters at home, don’t miss your chance!

This event is open, and everyone is welcome to come, watch, learn and participate!

Spend a day full of joy and creativity with us! If you crave tranquility and harmony, don’t miss your opportunity to join us for this event.

We will fill this day with walks, collecting natural materials, crafting, communicating with like-minded people and enjoying great home-grown and home-cooked food provided by our lovely hosts - The Forse of Nature Cafe.

Join amazing Amanda Greig Williamson with Natures Path Natural Ways for a walk around enchanting coastline in the village of Castletown. You will learn how the plants that you walk past every day can be a magnificent source of pigments for dyeing fibers or fabrics, as well as be used as food or medicine.

Summer Solstice is a magical time when plants are at the peak of the healing powers.

During this session, we will help the gardeners’ team at the Gardens of Mey with their day-to-day chores, and will get a chance to collect seeds, flowers and cuttings from the impressive collection of plants in the garden.

During this exciting workshop we will learn how to use up sheep wool in fun and easy way!

We will be wet felting our slippers while walking!

During this exciting workshop we will learn how to use up sheep wool in fun and easy way!

We will be wet felting our slippers while walking!

Another session of our very popular Zero Waste events at The Castle and Gardens of Mey!

At this session, you will help the team of gardeners and learn how to clean your garden in greenhouses in spring. We’ll also learn to move tender flowers and vegetables into the open ground from greenhouses.

Learn how to give twigs and sticks from clearing your orchard a second life! During this workshop, we will be making zero waste planters for from twigs and twine, zero carbon footprint and biogedradable!

At this exciting workshop, we will learn how to use flowers and leaves to create stunning and unique prints.

We are going to apply this technique to paper, but in exactly same way you can make prints on fabric.

If you are anything like us, you have sown way too many seeds of each variety of vegetables that you would like to grow this season, and now left with too many lovely baby plants that you feel sorry to throw away? Or have you forgotten to sow and now are afraid it is too late to start?

Whichever is the case, worry not! Come along to our seedling swap where we can donate and exchange the seedlings of all vegetables and other annuals!

Our Greenhouses will also launch sales of their young plants so you will be able to do some shopping from Socially Growing Greenhouses too!

Grab a great opportunity to learn from professional vegetable growers and get tips on how to grow your own food from the Royal Head Gardener!

During this volunteering session, you will help the gardeners’ team of the Gardens of Mey with planting potatoes, leeks, onions, garlic, cabbage, kale, cauliflower and other vegetables.

Gardening swap is your chance to declutter your sheds from whatever tools you have in surplus, and pick up things that you really need, at no cost involved!

You are welcome to attend our gardening session of repair cafe at Thurso Community Gardens with you gardening tools that need mending, lubricating or sharpening.

Booking is essential please, as we need to get prepared for the type of repairs or maintenance you may require.

Do you have some plant and veg seeds that you would like to trade and swap ?

Pop along to this free event and bring along any seeds you want to trade / swap.

We are inviting all nature lovers to help the busy gardening team at the Gardens of Mey with clearing the large woodland area from leaves, fallen branches and other debris and prepare it for the spring. We shall also put up the bird boxes to encourage more wildlife into the Gardens.

We will be able to collect natural materials for crafting during the day - and sycamore branches are so beautiful and look amazing in home decor! Natural materials are free, sustainable, unique and look so elegant and tasteful - let’s refuse from buying home adornments in favour of foraging!

Reshuffle your cupboards and refresh your stock! Donate crafting materials you don’t need and come to see what new treasures you can find at the swap!

Let's gather amongst the trees on the winter solstice day. Let's ground ourselves and work hard, it's always good for the soul. Let's warm up and share stories around the bonfires.

A feature documentary by Dylan Howitt

Allan Brown makes a dress by hand just from the fibre of foraged stinging nettles over 7 years.

A modern day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

Our film is a handspun labour of love too and follows him every step of the way.

A very useful session for those who are keen to learn sewing but not feeling confident enough about using their sewing machines. At this session you will learn how to operate your sewing machine safely and correctly, go through the structure and key functions of your machine.

Participation fee is £3.

Magical craft of spinning the wool on the wheel, nowadays it feels like it came to us from fairytales.

It is extremely important to preserve this amazing skill and pass it on from generation, to generation. Come and watch how the wool is spun by our wonderful expert Ann Johnson, or even have a go yourself!

The event is free.

Reshuffle your cupboards and refresh your stock! Donate crafting materials you don’t need and come to see what new treasures you can find at the swap!