Grab your wellies, slap on some sun cream and start your summer with a wonderful family-fun conservation weekend at Hazel Hill Wood. Come and experience a sense of shared community and help breathe new life into Hazel Hill wood’s pond area. We’ll be clearing and tending the paths around the pond, planting edible plants, learning… Continue reading Pondering, pootling and pottering by the pond!
Author: Lauren Kearse
Tap into your own ‘Wellspring of Wellbeing’
Marcos Frangos will be leading a constellation retreat at Hazel Hill Wood, Thursday 15 October 6pm – Friday 16 October 4.30pm Both Spring and Autumn bring an amazing energy of renewal. These retreats will give you the time to explore the essence of your own wellbeing, and the habits and patterns that no longer serve… Continue reading Tap into your own ‘Wellspring of Wellbeing’
Nourishing resilience: professionals need this too
Average daily life and work seems to get more uncertain and demanding for all of us: that includes the professional practitioners who are paid for their expertise in change management, resilience coaching and more. I include myself in this professional group, and my resilience skills are getting stretched and challenged every week. Wisdom Tree is… Continue reading Nourishing resilience: professionals need this too
Composting Loos – a lesson in resilience
Children visiting Hazel Hill Wood often take a healthy and delighted interest in our compost loos: they immediately see the sense of them, and often ask, “Why don’t we all have them?” On our recent Conservation And Wellness Weekend, we had four kids under 11, who were fascinated to see how human poos turn into… Continue reading Composting Loos – a lesson in resilience
Seeing the point of woodland conservation…
The speed of nature’s growth in Spring is astonishing: the beautiful carpet of wood anemones shown in the picture burst into flower between Easter Sunday and Easter Tuesday. And they are a great example of why we work so hard to encourage conservation work at Hazel Hill Wood. One of the main projects for our… Continue reading Seeing the point of woodland conservation…
News from our Conservation and Wellness Weekend
All 16 of us had a lovely time on this weekend, and did a lot for our own wellbeing and the wood’s. Many of the group were new to Hazel Hill, and made a really deep connection with the place and with other people. We did some great conservation work, landscaping and planting the outdoor… Continue reading News from our Conservation and Wellness Weekend
50 Shades of Twilight: The Magic of a Wood in Spring
Twilight is a special time for me in nature: and especially so at Hazel Hill Wood in Springtime. Very recently, I sat on the deck of one of our buildings, facing west as the light very slowly faded. Whilst the stages of the dawn chorus are well known, twilight too is a great time for… Continue reading 50 Shades of Twilight: The Magic of a Wood in Spring
Growing Natural Resilience: how can we learn from ecosystems
By Alan Heeks I talk about resilience a lot, and I hear very varied definitions of it from others. Some regard resilience as a hard, cold, mechanistic idea, whereas my first images are of a green, creative springiness: the growing through problems that we can see in sustainable ecosystems. This blog offers my views on… Continue reading Growing Natural Resilience: how can we learn from ecosystems