Tending & Ecology CPD workshop (for adults)

Price Options

£55-£80 (sliding scale)

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Wildlife recording and habitat tending at Children’s Forest

About the course

Who is this course suitable for?

  • This course is suitable for adults, no experience necessary.
  • This is great opportunity for outdoor education practitioners seeking to grow their own knowledge or looking for tips to engage children and young people in natural history.

The course will cover

  • Learn practical guidance on species identification and recommended identification books, apps and wildlife recording platforms.
  • Explore survey tools plus methodologies for recording wildlife at your site.
  • Learn about equipment (including trail cameras, refugia, sweep nets, catch and release traps)
  • Experience hand tools and small-scale habitat creation.
  • Create an opportunity to engage in simple nature connection.
  • Connecting with like-minded community.

Course fees:

£55 – £80 (sliding scale)

  • Standard fee: £70
  • Supporters fee: £80
  • Supported fee: £55

About the tutor


Tom Forward
: Ecologist and wildlife guide Tom Forward, brings with him 20 years experience in the field. He specialises in birds, and bird call mimicry is his party trick.

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Upcoming courses

March 15 2025, 10-2pm

Tree Nursery Community Volunteer day

Free

Join us to tend the tree nursery and learn about growing trees. These are volunteer work days for individuals and families where we will tend the young trees growing in our tree nursery. Work includes watering, weeding, pricking out seedlings, sowing tree seeds and more depending on the time of year. You’ll learn some aspects of growing and caring for young native trees at each session.

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March 22nd 2025, 10-2pm

Gemmotherapy Tree Bud Medicine Workshop (for adults)

By donation

This workshop is an introduction to the powerful Gemmotherapy bud medicine made from this vital and potent emergence of life, as an expression of the energetic and physicality of the whole tree. Learn how to make Gemmotherapy remedy, which is essentially a form of herbal medicine made from the buds or shoots of young plants using extracts made from tree buds.

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March 23rd 2025, 10-3pm

Spring Equinox Community Celebration

By donation

We will gather together at the Spring Equinox to celebrate this time of rebirth and renewal as the land is fertile with new life. Wandering together we will learn about tree and plant lore as we harvest spring edibles, celebrating the gifts they provide through song and story. Returning to Spring Rise, we will share a foraged feast around the fire as we craft and sing.

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