Black Creek Farm

The Black Creek Farm program is an offering to bring children onto the land, practicing our nature connection routines and following a seasonal curriculum: all within the context of a working family farm. We will be bringing our games, stories and explorations into focus with the question of how we adopt and adapt from Nature to cultivate our food. We will be guided by both our curiosity and the needs of the farm as we put our hands to some collective task each week that contributes to the production of food and knowledge that we all get to share.

During each session, half of our time will be spent exploring the land of the farm and the surrounding forest, undertaking projects, surveys and inquiries that attend to the needs of the wild. And half of our time will be dedicated to the needs represented on the farm, through which we will learn about:

- Tending dairy and beef cows 
- Making yogurt and cheese
- Making hay
- Tending fruit trees
- Seed saving
- Canning, pickling and food preservation
- Herb drying for tea
- Planning and planting a garden
- Harvesting!
- Soil management and composting
- Tending fences and farm boundaries
- Firewood

We hope to see you there!

Program starts in Sept 2023 and runs until June 2024. Registration is for the full 30 sessions.

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The Black Creek Farm program is an offering to bring children onto the land, practicing our nature connection routines and following a seasonal curriculum: all within the context of a working family farm. We will be bringing our games, stories and explorations into focus with the question of how we adopt and adapt from Nature to cultivate our food. We will be guided by both our curiosity and the needs of the farm as we put our hands to some collective task each week that contributes to the production of food and knowledge that we all get to share.

During each session, half of our time will be spent exploring the land of the farm and the surrounding forest, undertaking projects, surveys and inquiries that attend to the needs of the wild. And half of our time will be dedicated to the  needs represented on the farm.

Dates:

22 September 2023

20 October 2023

17 November 2023

8 December 2023

19 January 2024

16 February 2024

15 March 2024

19 April 2024

17 May 2024

14 June 2024

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Innisfree Farm is an internationally registered Botanical Garden and herbal farm in Royston founded over 10 years ago by Chanchal Cabrera and Thierry Vrain. Innisfree is committed to reconnecting people with nature through herbal medicine, nutrition, and shinrin yoku forest bathing. 

They have 7 acres of beautifully tended botanical gardens, right next to Royston’s forests around the Trent river. Fianna groups will be hosted one Friday of each month for a nature connection program focused on herbs and plant lore.

Throughout the year we will be propagating, tending and harvesting herbs, preparing seasonal medicines such as teas, tinctures and salves, making natural dyes, and crafting with plant fibres.

We will be practising all of our core nature connection routines of storytelling, circle sharing, singing, playing, observing the land, training our awareness, and most importantly cultivating connection with each other and the land. 

Due to the close focus on plants, this program is open to children aged 10 and up. 

Please note, all administration and instruction will be by Fianna staff. 

For more information about Innisfree see their website here www.innisfreefarm.ca

Dates:

29 September 2023

27 October 2023

24 November 2023

15 December 2023

26 January 2024

23 February 2024

5 April 2024

26 April 2024

31 May 2024

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