•  Reading the Sussex landscape ecologically, from ancient woodlands and medieval wildflower meadows to the rugged coastline around Hastings and finding biodiversity markers within.

• Interpreting the scars left by prehistoric people and excavating their burial mound through modern archeological techniques.

• Exploring how to identify Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age material evidence in the forms of pottery, smelting and flint technology found here on the farm.

• Exploring primitive pottery with local clay fresh from the stream and learning how they may have been used in rituals here in Sussex thousands of years ago. 

• Mapping birds’ territories, getting to know and identify insects such as bees and moths, tracking the stories within animal footprints across the landscape.

• Finding and preparing foraged wild food in all seasons, including mushrooms and seaweed.

• Making craft materials such as natural cordage from nettles, glue from nature, and ink from galls/acorns.

• Storytelling round a fire made with tinder from seed heads, flame from fungus and keeping the embers alive with dung.

• Preparing your own shamanic drum from local deer hides, and decorating it with pigments made from the environment for ritual expression.

• Spending time with our semi wild herd of horses and donkeys, learning how to sync with their and nature’s natural rhythms to help bring us into a present moment state, whilst also learning about their behaviour and subtle communications.

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