It has beeen a brilliant autumn. Many Forest School children come back time after time as they grow in love and understanding of all the woods can offer at any given season. And I ask myself, what is nature telling us? Nov 20, 2025Download this newsletter: Halloween...

Jan 8, 2025 There is something truly exciting to see an unfamiliar bird coming to feed. Just behind the cabin two Goldfinches stayed for some time gobbling the remaining fruit on the bush. They were not alone. Throughout the winter both the abundance and variety of...

There are two programmes of activities taking place at Blacknest – nature restoration and the Forest School. It is a wonderful symbiotic relationship between the two where the children are out experiencing the land enrichment work and finding so many more wildflowers...

What if . . . the natural world could regenerate and become fruitful and flowerful, allowing a profusion of wildlife to flourish. The UK has lost around 97% of our species-rich grasslands since the 1930s  How long would it take to reclaim it for nature? What would it...