Black Creek Monthly

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, games and challenges that engage us with the wild peripheries. And half of our time will be dedicated to the experiencing the life of the farm, through which we will learn about:

Dates:

20 September 2024

18 October 2024

15 November 2024

17 January 2025

14 February 2025

7 March 2025

18 April 2025

16 May 2025

6 June 2025

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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 older. 

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

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

Dates:

27 September 2024

25 October 2024

22 November 2024

13 December 2024

24 January 2025

21 February 2025

14 March 2025

25 April 2025

23 May 2025

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