2025 Summer Lineup of Workshops and Music

Sustainable Living Courses and Workshops in 2025

These were all the confirmed workshops for 2025. You can download the 2025 Timetable HERE

Crafts and Nature

• Hamilton from The Free Basketeers – Willow Basket Weaving.
• Sara from SMPTree – Upcycling Paper: Weave waste paper into functional and striking containers.
• Joey from Merched Y Berllan – Orchard Management: This year, the focus will be on Bud Grafting and Summer Pruning Techniques.
• Neil and Jayne from Forgeways – Join Forge Ways in making your very own hand brush using natural materials.
• Bob and Rose – Shelter Making and Tarp Pitching, Dehydrating Food for Walkers, Backpacking essentials.
• Sam from Scruff Stuff – Bird Language, Marvelous Mammals, Wild Play.



Green Technology

• Tom Cousins – Brewing Wine: Tom will be leading sessions on Harvesting for Brewing Wine and Preparing a Wine Ferment. He will also be hosting wine tasting sessions in the Baker’s Arms.
• Blake Sanders from Green Dragon – Blake will be running 2 sessions: 1. Reclaiming Lithium cells from disposable devices and talking about Lithium batteries 2. Small Scale Off Grid Solar Power Specification and Installation. See the full Green Dragon course list HERE.
• Andy Alder – DIY Hydroponics from Reclaimed Materials: Build your own hydroponic system using easily found, cheap and free items.
• Stu Watson – Gas Digesters: Stu will explain the practicalities of building and maintaining a gas digester, demonstrating a large one at Crabapple.
• Seggy Segeran – Small Scale Solar Power: A beginner-friendly session introducing the basics of solar power. Jane and Seggy will also be running the popular Rocket Stove Race!
• Dave Hainsworth – Basic Electrical Safety for Live-in vehicles, boats, event sites and domestic. Lead-acid battery problems, cable sizing & types.



Textiles

Nic and Sarah from Sew in Tents are running our textiles area this year. There will be various activities and drop-in sessions as well as the scheduled workshops.

• Nic Miners – Quilting and bag making.
• Natural Spinning and Dyeing with Stella Berg – Spinning and dyeing yarns and making textiles. How natural dyeing is done with British yarns (nettles, hemp, linen, wool). Carding and spinning, with spindles and on the wheel, learning to produce a strong yarn that can be knitted or woven.
• Sarah Bracken – Felting: Wet felted vessels.
• Lisa Moomin – The Art of Crochet with guided instruction from the Moomin-Mama and a session on Macrame!
• Sophie DéPas – Needlepoint: Learn the basics of needlepoint and create your own intricate designs.
• Cat Anson – Darning: Fed up with holey socks and woolies? Come learn how to mend them with Darning. Cat will also be running a wood and bramble session to make a children’s toy (adults only).
• Sandra Jones – Felted soaps.



Self-Care

• Ryan and Catherine from Knight-Fox Wild About Learning – Wild Plant Herbal First Aid and Tool Sharpening.
• Christine Conroy – How to Look After Your Back and Body.
• Stella Berg – Dentistry.
• Lucy Aphramor – Lucy will be leading a discussion around diet, nutrition, body image and public health entitled Nutrition for Self-care and Social Justice.
• Edwina Hodkinson BSc(Hons) MNIMH Medical Herbalist – Edwina will be sharing her knowledge of Herbalism and complementary medicine focusing on the Menopause.
• Eleri Varney – Herb Walks around Crabapple Grounds.
• Kit Acott – Travelling Botanical Garden. Kit will talk about the cultivation of medicinal herbs.



Community

• Andy Alder – Sustainable Businesses: Learn strategies for transitioning towards a more sustainable, lower-cost, and lower-impact lifestyle.
• Jinny Sanders – Bulk Bread Baking Sessions and the Radical Bake-Off!: Participate in group bread baking sessions and compete in the bake-off!
• Jane Segeran – Haybox Cooking: Learn how to cook using an energy-efficient haybox.
• Julie Moss – Storytelling Circle each evening after the evening meal. Julie will be making space to tell stories, and telling a few of her own.
• Pete Linnel – The One Planet Development Scheme in Wales: The OPD Scheme, its purpose and the application process.

Music at Radical Bakers Summer Gathering 2025

This was the music in 2025. 2026 lineup coming soon! On the Green Dragon Stage, we are delighted to host talented musicians and entertainers who bring their professional skills and passionate performances to our event. Radical Bakers features quality live music in the evenings and we would love it if you could make it to these chances to meet everyone.

Thursday
• 21:00 My Mate Dave are an acoustic female fronted four piece, combining upcycled folk, vaudeville, pop and close harmony. They play banjo, uke, fiddle and flute with four voices. Their music is mostly self-written and they draw influences from gypsy folk to 70’s glam rock and back again, with a nod to balladeers and minstrels of times past on the way. The result is an interesting mix of original music, with a few reworked familiar songs, some as acapella pieces with four part harmony.
• 22:00 Lunabarge – a double-stomping, energetic, uplifting, indie-folk duo. Armed with banjo, guitar, ukulele, 2 voices and 2 stomp boxes, they like to find the little things in life that make it worth living and encapsulate them in their catchy original songs.

Friday
• 21:00 Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan – Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentalist and looping beatboxing songwriter Mal sings his brain provoking songs using all sorts of vocal techniques, guitar, mbira, slide trumpet, trombone, chromatic harmonica and a loop recording pedal called Derek. Kylie provides violin and voice in a perfect balance to Mal’s nutsness. Their arrangements are intricate and playful. Imagine Einstein, Dr Seuss and Paganini making pancakes… All their songs and videos on www.malwebb.com/MalAndKy.



• 22:00 Formidable Vegetable! – Charlie Mcgee, Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan. Australian permaculture elecro-funk/swing for crushing the climate crisis and composting the Anthropocene, Formidable Vegetable are a fresh harvest of hope in a wild and overgrown world. Wheelbarrow-loads of tasty organic rad(ish) beets, brass & bass, soaring strings and swingin uke planting seeds of resilience and active hope for a sound future. Formidable Vegetable, originally inspired by the principles of permaculture, deliver a simple message of community resilience and ecological restoration. Check out loads of great videos on their Youtube or on formidablevegetable.com.au



Saturday
• 19:00 The Birds and Beasts Animal Quiz: Explore and evolve your animal knowledge. Like a pub quiz with music, pop culture and history but every single question has an animal connection.
• 20:30 Leo Brazil – Before you ask, it’s not a stage name! Leo Brazil has been writing and recording his own music since he was a child singing into a tape machine. As well as drawing on his love for classic pop, rock and roll and soul, Leo draws inspiration from animals with songs that connect personal emotions and experiences with stories from the natural world.
• 21:30 Mary Moden Band



• 22:30 – Muddy Summers and the DFWs – Feistyfolkpunkpop… Video for Get off my tits!. 2023 album on Bandcamp: muddysummers.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-seeds. 2025 album on Bandcamp: One Foot in Front of the Other.



Sunday
• 21:00 The Fantastic Radical Bakers Cabaret, Open Mic and Sing-along…

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