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Last week saw me visiting a school in West Sussex to deliver a programme of nature connection activities designed to help some of the quieter students be somewhat less reticent. Under the guise of learning about trees and using nature to inspire music making we made blobsters, worked in pairs, in groups, met trees, interviewed … Read more

Saturday 22nd of September was the last day of summer this year, and how lucky we were to be out and about in the sun, alongside the river otter hunting and gathering some plants to eat on the Edible Riverside course I run every Autumn here in Otterton We found lime leaves, balckberries, hedgebedstraw, alexanders … Read more

Didgeridoo sounds fill the valley The Tamar Valley will be alive with the sounds of didgeridoos next Wednesday, August 1 when Chris Holland fills the surrounding trails and woodlands with the eerie sounds of the Australian instrument. Holland, who is better known as the Didgeridoo Man, will mix music, story telling, earth painting, bushcraft, games … Read more

At the end of June I spent three days working with some children in their last year of primary school to leave some environmental art in the schools grounds, marking their time at their school, on an Australian theme.  I suggested we make some aboriginal style ancestor poles, and fill them with holes for insects … Read more

The art of mentoring this year was a bit of an experiment at community based learning, with the Art of Mentoring course being set in a temporary “village”. It seemed to work very well, even though the organisational systems were stretched to the limit.There were several prorammes all running at once, for adults, teens, 6-12 … Read more

Dear all, This hedgerow song came to me as I was walking NE along the track to the barn at Hawbush Farm, (the location of this summer’s Art of Mentoring meetup,) with wind and rain blasting through the hedge. I was thinking back to how earlier in the morning the birdsong had woken me, even … Read more

Are dens and daisy chains things of the past? Today there are many reasons that parents and children are less likely to want to play out than in the past. Perhaps as the years go by, children playing in the streets and parks with be a rare sight. I hope not, but I am not … Read more

happy easter dewdrops slideshow

Here is my offering to the nature connection world this spring…  have sprouted a slideshow. http://youtu.be/YEtaG65B8J8