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Follow the cycle of a year from spring to winter through six workshops, focusing on four plants that grow abundantly in our 160 acre restoration site - willow, nettle, wheat and oak. We will watch as they change with the seasons, gathering materials from them to craft with, tending them and learning about our connection to the seasons and plants through folk song.
You are invited to join for all six workshops or whichever combination you can make. In the first workshop we will explore the farm, get to know each other a little and collect flowers and leaves to press. If you are not sure if these workshops are for you then please feel free to come to this first session to see if you like it!
We will come together to work, craft and sing with visits from local folk singers who will share songs and tell us about ways to get involved in folk singing locally. Throughout the workshops you will get a chance to learn craft and landwork skills as well as learning folk songs that relate to plants, landwork, people and place.
Rowan M, Rowan H and Mim will lead in landwork activities joined by Karina, a skilled craftsperson, and Sarah, a folk musician (bios below).
Workshop Content
Each workshop will guide us through the year. In May we will get acquainted with one another and the land. We will create a press in which we will gather leaves and flowers. Over the year we will continue to collect plants to press, noticing how they change with the seasons.
In the June, July, September and October workshops we will dive deeper to explore how we can work with and tend these plants and learn songs about seasons, plants and landscapes.
The final workshop in December will be a celebration and reflection of the year, we will use our pressed leaf and flower collection to create a piece of artwork and ponder where we go from here, taking away with us our pressed plant guide, songs and folklore to use in the future.
Dates and Times
Each day will run from 10.30 to 3, you are welcome to come to as many as you like and book as you go but please be aware that places might book up and we can not guarantee a place for everyone.
The dates are;
25th May
23rd June
21st July
8th September
13th October
8th December
Research
This project is kindly supported by Sheffield Universities Access Folk, a research project investigating the accessibility and diversity of folk singing in England. That means information about this programme may be shared for research and archival purposes. This information will:
Inform public outputs (including reports, resource kits, presentations, and scholarly publications).
Be made available as an ‘open data set’ (a database that is publicly accessible).
Be published in aggregated and anonymised forms that protect your identity.
As part of this project we ask for your participation in research that will help us to understand how people relate to and share folk music, as well as whether wellbeing and nature connectedness are enhanced by community craft, landwork and song activities.
Data that we share includes:
Anonymised demographic data that supports diversity monitoring.
Organiser reflections on the sessions run.
Your anonymised feedback about the Finding Roots in People and Place project.
If you have any questions or concerns about what this means for you and your data, please contact Mim at miriam@holisticrestoration.co.uk to discuss. It’s important for you to know that you can still participate in Finding Roots in People and Place even if you opt out of sharing your data.
If we support other research activities (like collecting stories about your experiences, focus groups, or interviews) where there is potential for you to be identifiable, we will separately seek your consent.
Find out more about Access Folk at accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk.
What to bring
All tools and craft materials will be provided but please bring warm and waterproof clothing, sturdy footwear and a packed lunch.
Refreshments will be provided (teas, coffee, cow and soya milk) but please let us know on the email below if you have any dietary requirements and we will do our best to accommodate.
Biographies
Karina Thornton
Karina has always worked in the outdoors. After studying environmental science and working in conservation for a while she moved into environmental education. For the last 20 years she has been running bushcraft courses – mainly playing in the woods, making fires, using sharp tools and creating things out of natural materials. She has been weaving baskets for around 15 years and set up Whittle and Weave because weaving makes her happy.
Sarah Hinds
Sarah Hinds is a folk singer/song writer from Belper who writes songs about the natural world. She has been involved in many collaborative music projects. https://sarahhinds.wordpress.com/
Sarah also runs The Garden, an outdoor personal development and counselling centre near Derby. https://sarahhinds6.wixsite.com/the-garden
Heartwood at High Leas
Heartwood is based at High Leas Farm, a 160 acre restoration project that blends wilding with regenerative food production. We see people as a hugely beneficial part of the wild and we are trying to relearn the ways in which we can both support and be supported by living systems. We believe that by deepening reciprocal connection between people and place we can help to regenerate wild systems and support the wellbeing of people.
For more information on the farm please head to www.heartwoodsfc.com
Directions
Full directions can be found here. We are also able to offer a small amount of money to those who would struggle to attend due to transport costs and we also offer collection from Cromford train station, please email miriam@holisticrestoration.co.uk for more details.
Data Protection
Heartwood collects and store your data in line with our Data Protection Policy. Please contact miriam@holisticrestoration.co.uk for a copy.
Any data shared with Access Folk is cared for by the University of Sheffield. The legal basis for processing any associated personal data is ‘a task carried out in the public interest’ (GDPR Article 6(1)(e)). As some of this information is defined as 'special category' data, the legal basis for processing it is 'for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research purposes or statistical purposes' (GDPR Article 9(2)(j)).
For more information about the University’s Privacy Policy, visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/govern/data-protection/privacy/general
