Candle Making Workshop

Come to Wild Harvest School and learn all about creating your own light.

During the dark February months there is nothing nicer nor more empowering than creating your own light by learning how to make candles.

We have chosen that special time at Candlemass/Imbolc to hold this wonderful cosy candle making workshop, where we can look forward to the coming Spring.  In 2025 we are lucky as it falls exactly on a Sunday!

In this short day course Di will explain all about the components of a candle and how you can replicate these using various weird and wonderful alternatives that you can find around the home and in Nature.  Having lived off-grid for three years Di spent a long time learning 'what burns well' to create light!

You will get to have a play with some of these different wick and fuel material combinations in addition to making a variety of candle types of the 'normal' variety.  

Thanks to a donation of candle wax by a lovely follower Charlee;  each guest will make a few different colours and sizes of candles in some pretty and original containers - this is the perfect way to use up all those little pots or old glass candle holders and jars you have been saving!

Each guest will also get their own 1kg bag of wax and a length of wick to take home so that they can continue their candle making experimentation into the future.

There are just six spaces available on our Candle Workshop in February 

• Date: Sunday 2nd Feb. 2025
• Time: 11am - 3pm (please bring a packed lunch, refreshments are provided)
• Venue: Wild Harvest School, in the rural outskirts of York, YO424TA

Why Choose Wild Harvest School for Your Candle Making Workshop?

• We have been teaching foraging and self-sufficiency skills for 20 years
• Featured on the BBC and Channel 4 and in National Media and Shows
• Qualified Adult Ed Teacher so the quality of your learning experience is second to none.
• Highly reviewed - we have 247 fab reviews and counting!
• 100% Reliable - we never cancel anything.
• Fully insured.
• Easy on site free parking.
• Proper loo.
• Central to the U.K
• Refreshments are included.

Help Us Help Others...

For every guest booking on this course a donation will be made to our Social Responsibility Policy in lieu of the donated wax.  Each year we offer free activities to a different charity.  (Last year it was a charity for visually impaired young people, the year before we ran an activity for local Brownie groups and several years ago we did a big refugee mission to Europe.  For 2025 we are looking to work with Smile a local charity that consolidates the efforts of local businesses for greater local charitable action).

If you have any questions about this Candle Workshop please email hello@wildharvest.org