Some of the things we did and our reflections over the past month or so: We are getting much so better at lighting fires with bowdrills this year. It requires a lot of patience and mindfulness! We found a beautiful natural chimney and beach fire place on the beach. A spectacular viewpoint provided a breathtaking … More Wild Happenings
These are a few of the things the Horizons group have been doing: Despite a very cold day, we worked our hands into gooey fat-laden mixtures to create much needed bird feeders. When we came back the next time it was all gone – but was it the birds or squirrels who enjoyed them?! In … More Horizon Update
– In January we went to Tentsmuir to see storm damage and we had personal challenges to carry out in exchange for food, which we cooked on a fire. The very large hole we dug became a major focus of the day and the boys got well and truly stuck. It was a great opportunity for … More Beach Escapades, Lucky Us and First Aid
The Wilder Ways crew never really stop playing, making things or making food and of course eating it. And we have had a good year of doing all of the above. Please enjoy with us in this medley of photographs. In the gallery below you can see us steam bending ash to make a drum hoop, … More Wilder Ways Work
It’s come to the end of a very busy year of growth for the Horizon Group and relationships and individuals continue to blossom and interweave their relationships with each other and the land. This activity is called cording and is always done as a pair where two children make a thicker piece of cord together … More Drawing down the days
The pace of growth of our Horizons group has been tremendous and we now have two groups that are full to capacity. We know that a picture spells a thousand words so here are some to enjoy. We continue to have fun, be challenged and learn. Among more games than we could remember playing, we … More New horizons
We have been busy changing around our blogs, as the Wilder Ways and Horizons blogs have been housed elsewhere, so you may not have seen them online in the last few months. Sorry about that, we really love keeping you in the loop. You can always check out our Instagram or Facebook page. Back when we were just returning from summer break, we were planning together our goals and wishes for the … More Back on the blog
June 2021 It has been an interesting experiment to do all this study for a national five as everything about the education system changed this year due to restrictions and we had to adapt quickly, we were also limited to doing a lot online. But we got through it and it has been celebratory to … More And Now for Summer
We have been immersed in our studies for quite some time, working our slow and sure way through a National Five in Environmental Science. We sure picked a tricky year to commence formal studies as schools have had to change the way they worked and we had a long pause in meeting up. But finally … More The Long and Winding Road
It’s been a long time since we could gather in more than two at a time. We found it so refreshingly great to not start Monday with an intensive three hour Zoom call with a last minute dash to briefly meet up and disperse again with just one of more person. Not this Monday, this … More So We are Back
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