PUPILS from the Northgate JMI School in Bishop's Stortford will be recreating Celtic food and farming techniques at a camp next month.

The children from the Cricketfield Lane school will be ploughing using old ancient techniques, planting, wattling and harrowing at the Celtic Harmony Camp in in Brickendon, near Hertford on Tuesday, May 23.

The activity camp follows the Beltane Celtic Craft Festival which is taking place at the camp on Monday, May 1 with a hosts of crafts on display from craftspeople in Celtic costume.

Celtic Harmony is a not-for-profit organisation providing hands-on ancient craft activities for school children through living history environmental education days at Celtic Harmony Camp to promote a more sustainable way of life.

Beltane project manager Clare Holt said: 'Beltane is a time of renewed hope when the Celts celebrated the coming of summer and carried burning torches across the fields to encourage the sun to warm the land.

'The aim of the festival today is also to celebrate the coming of summer and to enable people, especially children, to have a go at traditional crafts - promoting and developing craft skills into the new Millennium.'

Pic cap: A Celtic Iron Age Round House - Celtic Harmony Camp (c)

Pic cap: Wattling demonstration by Luca Parrella, craft and conservation officer during education day at Celtic Harmony Camp (c)

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