Pine Journey day (for families)

Course dates February 24th 2024, 10-1pm Forest Row, East Sussex. Location announced upon booking

Price Options

Adults £20 per person, children by donation.

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About the day

Come & celebrate the Pine tree together. Wandering in the Ashdown Forest we will explore the home & ecology, tree lore, food & medicine of the pine. In the winter, Pine provides us with many gifts.
Through song, and story, craft and medicine making, we celebrate the sacred Pine tree of our land.

Who is this day suitable for?

  • This course is suitable for adults and accompanied children, both beginners level and those with more experience in nature connection.

The day will cover

  • Seasonal celebration and traditions of our land
  • Foraging and plant lore
  • Pine tree based crafts & medicine making
  • Song and story
  • Create an opportunity to engage in simple nature connection
  • Connecting with local community

Terms & Conditions

Please read our Terms and conditions, linked here.

About the tutors

Anna Richardson: Anna has been a nature mentor and trained forest school leader for over 20 years, working with children of all ages and mentoring adults in plant lore, foraging, nature connection and bushcraft. The 8 Shields deeply informs Anna’s work and approach.  She is passionate about connecting to nature through creativity and reverence for life and is also a forest school trainer through Circle of Life Rediscovery and has co-authored two books : Learning with Nature and The Children’s Forest and am the founder of the Children’s Forest.

Lucinda Warner: Lucinda is a medicinal Herbalist, naturopath and nature lover. She loves to spend time on the Downs with the plants that grow there and can often be found in her kitchen blending, brewing, bottling and batching any number of strange and wonderful potions and elixirs. Lucinda loves sharing her experience of the many gifts that the natural world has to offer and empowering others to know and use some of the common plants that grow freely around us. You can find her at www.whisperingearth.co.uk

Testimonials

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“I love everything about Children’s Forest's courses. These immersive nature days are filled with so much enchantment and joy that leave me feeling deeply connected to the more than human world and to my true self as an inseparable part of nature. I particularly adore singing tree songs together, which feels like a beautiful way of reciprocating the many gifts the trees offer us. I've shared with my children and they are now Children's Forests biggest fans!"

Rachel P
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