22 Educators providing Courses

rosie tweedale designs

Hi, I’m Rosie Tweedale, the potter behind Twig Ceramics! Twig Ceramics is all about bringing pottery and nature together. I believe in the importance of having deeper connections to the objects, people and landscapes around us. I’m lucky enough to have a studio surrounded by the woodlands in Sussex, where I walk and forage for plants! I love to be outdoors and connected to the seasons. The natural colours, textures and patterns I notice around me make their way into my work. Keep an eye out for my leaf print tableware and upcoming pottery workshops, bringing plants, people and clay together

into yoga and nature

Liz Turner from Into Yoga and Nature offers local yoga classes in Devon, some of which can be attended via Zoom. She also runs in person workshops and Zoom sessions on yoga and ayurveda. Ayurveda is regarded as the 'sister science' to yoga, providing people with a comprehensive and holistic approach to health, through diet, lifestyle and herbs.  Online workshops on health issues are coming soon. 

gurteen college

Education for a sustainable futureThe aim of the dairy enterprise is to achieve excellence while serving to educate and equip students with the necessary practical, technical and financial skills of running a profitable dairy business in accordance with the highest ethical standards. Herd Data as at the end of May 2018 Breed and Number: 210 Pedigree Holstein Friesian expanding to 240 cows 2021 Yield: Target 510kgs milk solids, produced 452kg milk solids 2017 with 4.17% fat/3.56% protein. Breeding: Average EBI team of bulls 2018 is 241, sweeper bulls are limousin and angus. Empty rate 2017 was 6% Diet: Self-sufficient for forage, target 85% grazed grass, target 950 kg concentrate.

helen browning's eastbrook experiences

About Eastbrook Experiences What is Eastbrook Experiences? Eastbrook Farm, located in North Wiltshire on the Oxfordshire border, has been practising organic farming methods for over 30 years. This has resulted in a fantastically diverse, beautiful environment. You can learn more about the farm here. To share this with you all we have setup Eastbrook Experiences - a range of workshops and activities taking place throughout the farm, throughout the year. We hope we've got something for everyone. Maybe you just want to get outside and learn about the farm and countryside on a safari, or perhaps you're keen to forage for your own ingredients? Or perhaps you want to learn from one of the many horticultural or agroforestry experts we are lucky enough to work with. You're sure to find something to do here.

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amy rankine forager

I am a foraging instructor leading wild food walks and workshops for the past 8 years in the central belt. Through walks, courses and workshops I’m able to help people build skills in identification, beginning their foraging journey. My aim is to use wild food as a platform to help restore our connection with food at its source, through immersion in nature. As more of us return to forging, sustainable practice is at the core of what I do, and an integral part of a mornings’s adventure. As well as identification centred excursions I enjoy delivering workshops and exploring a variety of avenues to incorporate wild food in everyday life.

wanderwomen scotland

Hi, I am Anna. I set up WanderWomen Scotland Ltd in November 2018, in order to encourage women into the Outdoors, and to enable them to have their space the male-dominated Adventure world. Nature has been my happy place ever since growing up in East Germany, a locked-down country. Getting away from propaganda, Stasi spies and political control, getting outdoors meant freedom and truth, even if that meant holidaying in really basic huts, without electricity or flowing water, skinny dipping in all kinds of bodies of water and cooking over fire. After spending my 20s in London, turning my back on nature a little, yet still cycling everywhere, having my own children made me appreciate the outdoors again, I re-familiarised myself with the feeling of content that the seasons brought, or the reassurance of the cycles of growth in the garden, or the cycles of the moon. Disagreeing with the early school starting age in the UK, I flexi-schooled my 2 boys throughout their Primary School years, working with local rangers, counting bumble bees and orchids and doing other conservation tasks, built mandala sculptures, bug hotels, community gardens and a willow play village at a local park and set up an outdoor learning group for pre-school children. Once it was not cool enough for them anymore, spending their Mondays climbing trees and making fires with Mama, I decided I wanted to keep sharing the benefits of nature, as well as my survival skills – and with the help of a vision board, and support from family and friends, WanderWomen was born: Offering Outdoor events in a mix of mindfulness and adventure. Wild Swimming is my Meditation, Solo Camping is Selfcare, Yoga is being playful, Silence is where my Creativity gets birthed, and Walking is thinking & problem-solving. Cycling is getting me from A to B, and my competitive side manifests itself in going slower. I love the smell of fire and the sound of rain on canvas. Plant connection is strong, and I forage, appreciate and lay mandalas to practice mindfulness.

urban bees

Urban Bees helps bees in towns and cities by working with communities, charities and corporates to educate people about the importance of bees and improving forage and habitat in urban areas. We provide ‘bee makeovers’; practical steps for transforming our environment and our thinking to help bees and other pollinators – from planting trees and flowers that offer year-round food, to making and installing homes for wild bees. Urban Bees was set up a few years ago by Brian McCallum and Alison Benjamin. They wanted to share their passion for their new beekeeping hobby with other city dwellers and to make the urban environment more bee-friendly. Their first training apiary was in Battersea, south London. With funding from the Co-op Plan Bee, they set up a teaching apiary in Camley Street Nature Reserve in King’s Cross and a community apiary in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. They now produce Regents Park honey from their apiary in the royal park, maintain hives and bee-friendly planters for a number of corporate clients, and advise and educate through books, newsletters, talks and consultancy about how to help wild bees. ""Brian McCallum Brian runs Urban Bees. He is a qualified teacher and worked for nine years as a part-time seasonal bee inspector for the government. He is a member of the Bee Farmer’s Association and the co-author of four books on bees, Keeping Bees and Making Honey, A World without Bees, Bees in the City, and The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees and How to Save Them. Brian provides 'meet the bees' sessions for a number of corporate clients and other organisations. He created the 'hive talking' bee map to match existing and aspiring beekeepers and people who want to host hives. He educates children, young people and adults about bees, writes blogs. He tweets @Beesinthecity. Alison Benjamin Alison co-founded Urban Bees. She is a journalist, author, educator and bee-friendly plant expert. She co-authored Keeping Bees and Making Honey, A World without Bees, Bees in the City, an urban beekeepers’ handbook; and The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees and How to Save Them. She was part of the team that designed the award-winning King’s Cross Bee Trail App. And she created a solitary bee garden at the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show with River of Flowers which won a silver medal. After a 20 year career at The Guardian, Alison is now pursuing her passion for wild bees, by doing bee makeovers, creating and maintaining bee-friendly planters, writing newsletters, giving talks and developing partnerships to improve forage and habitat for bees and pollinators in towns and cities.

the forager within

My name’s James, lover of life and powered by positivity and perspective! I grew up on a farm and so fell in love with the countryside and nature from an early age, but in adulthood became disconnected from this world, eventually going down a dark path that led to me losing everything! When I hit rock bottom in 2015, I bounced back strongly and rediscovered childhood passions including foraging, and found my way back to nature. I also love hikes, James Bond, wine, astronomy, cacti and crocodiles! You can learn more about me and my journey to setting up The Forager Within here.