We all long for snow but we are teased with short flurries and Jack Frost turning the mornings white for a while. The wetter ditches and icy puddles are always welcome for exploring things we rarely get to in every day life. As well as drawing us out on to the land for new adventures … More Winter 2025/26
Our new year started with our tradition of foraging for brambles and making jam on the fire.It felt good to be back home in the woods! We also noticed how abundant the rowan berries were at the start of term and used them to protect trees in the woods, and feed the birds. We are … More mid Nov 2024
Our Winter (2023/24) So Far … More Our Winter (2023/24) So Far
We tumbled straight back into the woods with our home-educators at the Horizon Groups to forage and cook and enjoy – from bush to belly!
We happily returned to Eigg with a mix of our “oldies” and younger teens that hadn’t been before.
Still in winter and enjoying the benefits of fire we focused on fire-starting and saw the bow drill in action from Max. We started thinking about birds in March, playing games like Pass The Grub, another creation from the games team, to feed hungry baby birds and learn the 5 voices of birds. Kim Nisbet, … More Horizon Groups – From winter to summer
At the turn of Imbolc, the time of new life and awakening, we look forward to milder days and wonder what else we will find under our feet when we least expect it. We’ve noticed snowdrops, even daffodil shoots and the tiniest ferns poking up by the stream where we have our sheltered morning circle. … More Horizon Groups – Imbolc
Oct’22 Our Horizons year has started off with in full swing with harvesting, balance, the Autumn Equinox and early explorations of other sites where we may go. We have had a lot of joy in forming and re-forming our group, co-creating our group agreements and developing connections across the different cohorts and with each other. … More Horizons group update
Nov’22 Here are a few recent pictures from our Autumn Equinox at the Horizons Group, we have been exploring the fruits of autumn and also working out balance in a fun tangible way by creating a human pyramid…
During the 2022 Summer Camp our last one together as a weekly group, the core group went that extra mile and took a trip to the Hebrides together. It took several hours from Fife. When we first landed on Vatersay, we thought that was going to be our home, but a few days later, we … More Another Wild Summer
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