Tending a Children's Forest: 2-day Camp
Standard fee: £350, Supporters fee. (Contact us for Supported concessionary fee): £450
This weekend course explores ecological knowledge and practices to tend young forests with children and their communities. We will journey together to discover our beneficial role in the natural world as caretakers and guardians.
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Summer Solstice Community Celebration
Adults £20, children free
A day to celebrate the Summer Solstice with all the family. There will be solstice inspired games, songs, crafts and nature connection for adults and accompanied children. We will visit a beautiful summer meadow and celebrating our relationship with nature as a community.
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Summer Medicine Making & Tree Tending Community day
Adults £20, children free
Join us for a morning of gathering and crafting medicines from the forest, hedgerows and meadows, followed by an afternoon tending the trees and ecosystems of the Children’s Forest. Adults and accompanied children are welcome.
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Summer Crafts & Tree Tending Community day
Adults £20, children free
A morning of gathering materials from the forest, hedgerows
and meadows for a number of summer crafts, followed by
an afternoon tending the trees and ecosystems of the
Children's Forest. A time to connect with nature as a
community.
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September 9-10th 2023, 10-4pm
Foraging & Reciprocity: 2-day workshop
Standard fee: £75, Supporters fee: £100 (contact us for Supported concessionary fee)
On this two day course, we will walk the land and gather the wild berries, fruits, nuts and seeds gifted by nature in this season. We will explore the ancestral uses of important tree foods, their medicinal benefits and how this active participation in the cycles of nature offers us the opportunity to be part of a reciprocal relationship. We will learn how to gather from the plants with respect and honouring, though practical consideration and care, song and story. You will learn to prepare and cook this harvest on the fire and how to sort and store seeds for planting.
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September 23rd 2023, 10-2pm
Autumn Equinox Community Celebration
Adults £20, children free
We will gather together at the Autumn Equinox to celebrate the land and the bounty of the years harvest.
Wandering together we will learn about tree and plant lore as we gather wild berries and nuts, celebrating the gifts they provide through song and story. Bringing together home grown vegetables from the Spring Rise garden with the wild food we have foraged, we will cook stew on the fire as we craft.
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Three day Facilitator Training Course
Standard rate: £475, Supporters rate: £550 (contact us for Supported rate)
The Children’s Forest Facilitator course is an immersive 3-day camp that aims to provide participants with a deep nature immersion experience in a beautiful Sussex woodland while experiencing the four step journey of the Children’s Forest. Our aim is to create a heart centred learning experience that will inspire you to create your own tree planting projects through nature connection practice, practical knowledge and indigenous wisdom.
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October 21-22nd 2023, 10-4pm
Forests From Seed: 2-day workshop
Standard fee: £75, Supporter fee: £100, Contact us for Supported / concessionary fee.
Located at our small tree nursery, participants will learn how
to set up their own, for a school, forest school, community or
even in their garden. We will learn how to respectfully
forage, process and germinate tree seeds and also to use
the fruits and nuts for food and medicine. We will look at
different ways of treating various kinds of seed in order to
germinate and grow them into saplings and how to tend the
growing trees for optimal health of future forest plantings.
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October 28th 2023, 10-4pm
Acorn Processing Teaching day
£50 - £80 (sliding scale)
On this day we will walk the land and meet several oak trees and learn traditional methods of harvesting and processing fresh and dried acorns as our ancestors once did. We will share stories and tree lore and learn some of the gifts of food and medicine that the oak tree offers. As a group we will learn how to process acorn flour, among other acorn foods, using traditional methods and will be able to share this with friends and families or children that you work with.
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November 19th 2023, 10-2pm
Acorn Community Celebration & Tree Tending day
Adults £20, children free
Join us to celebrate the mighty acorn as we gather acorns together and learn the basics of the ancient technique of making acorn into food. We will also sing songs, play nature games and tend some trees in connection with the Children's Forest at Pickeridge Farm.
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