Jun 20
Practical Skills
A big part of my Forest School training has been learning new outdoor skills and refining old ones. Assessment not only includes being...
Jun 19
The Shabbaton B'Teva
My Teva events had been going great, and I was discovering so many people with an interest in bringing together nature and Jewish...
Jun 19
What Is Teva?
In addition to my six practice sessions that I ran for my Forest School practitioner training (which were confusingly also referred to as...
Jun 16
Natural Cycles
I love the idea that nature comes in cycles. I didn't use to notice these, but during Covid I found one spot in the woods where I would...
Jun 14
The Tool Talk
When making things, we need to make sure we're doing it safely and with the right tools. Before I started this course, I rarely used...
Jun 14
Making in the Woods
I love making things, and I love spending time outside. Learning to make things, inspired by the nature around us, and often using found...
Jun 6
All of the Plants
I have a small patch of woodland near my house which I've been going to regularly, ever since lockdown began. It's a beautiful space, and...
May 22
Rain, Sun, Etc.
There were geese this morning on Loch Ettrick. Two Canadian Geese, with a few babies trailing behind them. I noticed them because they...
May 6
Tree Appreciation Month
Patrick and I were sitting drinking coffee in Queen's Park on a Friday morning back in January. We had brought our watercolours along,...
Feb 12
Trying Out Willow Coppicing
This week I had the incredible opportunity to learn a bit about willow coppicing. I'd previously taken a four-week willow weaving course,...
Jan 1
Forest School at Limmud
From December 22-27 I attended the UK's largest Jewish gathering, Limmud Festival, in Birmingham, with over 1600 people attending. Limmud...
Dec 21, 2023
Understanding Forest School
Here we are. It's already been a month since I've been back from our first week of training, and it already feels like it was ages ago....
Oct 6, 2023
The Willow Tree
Here we are, nearing the end of Sukkot. It feels like the holidays have gone by so quickly. It was just early September, wandering...
Sep 28, 2023
The Apple Orchard
Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur have already passed, and October is just around the corner. I’m picking the last brambles from the branches,...
Sep 5, 2023
A Sweet New Year
We’re less than two weeks away from Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, and my desk (read: work-from-home kitchen table) is overflowing...
Jun 30, 2023
On Separation and Sanddunes
“…before that I loved the desert. It wasn’t particular things but the space between them, that abundance of absence, that is the desert’s...
Jun 2, 2023
The People of Morocco
My first morning in Morocco, I was sat up on the rooftop of my riad in Marrakech, looking for breakfast. The check in boy had been very...
May 17, 2023
Cities of Blue
High in the Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco lies a town they call the Blue Pearl - Chefchaouen. Some people say it’s painted blue to...
Nov 28, 2022
The Village Fountain
I sat in the shade behind the church in the village square of Bubion, a tiny village high in the Alpujarra mountain range. There was a...
Nov 14, 2022
Being Jewish in Spain
The Alhambra I’m just back home from two weeks in Southern Spain. I climbed hills and visited charming mountain villages. I saw exotic...
