Join us for our
Easter wild food, seashore and fire-side living
After a half-term success with launching this Family Series program, I can now offer an Easter date from Monday 21st April.
These 4 half days are a way to spend time together with your children, out in Nature, experiencing ways through exploring, games and activities to engage more with the natural environment and feel a deeper and closer relationship with the beings and non-beings on this earth. No experience is needed, simply a seed of curiosity, clothes to suit the weather and a willingness to be observe and join in when you feel comfortable to.
I design these sessions with heart, hand, head and eye in mind, to meet our diverse needs, with the ethics of Permaculture: earth-care, people-care and fair-share as the guides.
…Teaching our children, alongside ourselves, skills that we’ll need in a rapidly changing world, where we’re experiencing a disconnect from the natural environment from which we were born to live amongst.
“To live with your destiny, you must locate, liberate, and live what is truly wild.” Bill Plotkin
Monday 21st – Thursday 24th April 2025: 10.30-1pm
Monday – Wild food, spring greens and soup making
Introducing a bunch of wild weeds to easily identify and cook with at home for budding chefs or lovers of new food. Ways to use these plants in fun ways for weekly meals and snacks. Learn to preserve them and use them to make a soup around the fire. Lunch included (vegan) – soup and handmade bread.
Wednesday – Fire making and fire-side crafts.
Looking beneath the surface of the soil at wild roots and a few more land plants on this day. Cooking on a fire that you’ve started and tended to. Making your own a fire-making bag for taking home with a plant printed design, gathering of the materials to have a ready-to-go kit. Activities to align to earth pace.
Tuesday – Jelly and slime on the seashore.
On to the beach for this day to dip our toes into the world of sea vegetables and sea creatures. Discover the magical transforming ways of seaweed and how to bring them into your kitchen. Bring a packed lunch for this day with a plus a seafood dish to try.
Thursday – Wood carving with willow and fire cooking.
Introducing wood crafting to learn some cuts alongside safe knife use to start your life as a wild wood crafter. Giving parents some time alone to finish their projects, the children will make a conger eel slime or silky mermaid lip balm (no mermaid or conger eel involved)! Flat breads with a spring salad and dip to celebrate. Marshmallows for dessert.
What you’ll gain
- Skills in foraging, fire-making and cooking to feel confident to take home and bring them into their family.
- Nature connection: a sense of place with self among wilder places and practices that build on this relationship.
- Recipes and a list of wild food that you feel confident to identify.
- A perspective shift as to how different ecosystems are entwined with ours and how when aligned to them, we ourselves are too.
- Fire-side crafts and the use of wild weeds in skin products.
- Ways to engage and have fun with nature-based games and activities.
Book here
These are small groups with a maximum of 2 children per adult attending and 8 in total per group. This is a family event with parents/carers learning alongside their child/children, with all of you being able to take the skills and experiences home, bringing the wild into your lives together.
Price per person (adult/child) is £180 for the 4 half-days with an e-booklet included at the end with all resources, recipes, activities and info on the plants that you’ve experienced. Age guide 7-11 yrs. There is the option to stay at WildGuernsey for some/all of the nights of this Family Series (minimum of 2 nights). Prices for this can be found on the WildGuernsey site (Guide: 2pp 2 nights – £260, 4pp 2 nights – £340 with a 15% discount if booking for 4 nights).
Tara’s children’s groups are a lovely place for kids to develop a relationship with the natural world. Sat around a fire, Tara uses lots of immersive and child friendly activities to communicate about plants, trees and natural systems. I have really noticed how observant she is with the kids too, noticing if someone is starting to need more attention which creates an inclusive atmosphere. My son and I really look forward to the sessions.
Samata who is part of The Children’s Fire.
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