Pine Journey day (for families)

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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

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Upcoming courses

September 24th 2026, 10am-12pm

Parent & Toddler Group

Adults: £5 suggested donation pp, Children FREE

Journey with us and the trees as we gather around the fire, forage from the trees, sing songs and share stories, crafts and connection.

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Sept 26th 2024, 4-6pm GMT

WEBINAR; Introduction to growing Forests from Seed

£7-£15 sliding scale

Join us online as we introduce our Forest From Seed programme. Learn the practicals of seed gathering, germinating, planting and tending trees & how to develop knowledge and care for the trees through story, song and craft to create a meaningful relationship that deepens connection and more.

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October 3 2026, 10am-2pm

Tree Planting day at Hackhurst Farm

Donations welcome

Join us for a hands-on day of tree planting for all ages where you will be guided to plant young trees to extend the existing Children’s Forest at Hackhurst Farm, and to tend some of the trees planted in previous years. Full instruction and all materials and tools will be provided.

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