Where The Wildings Are!

WTWA is a program based in Permaculture and promotes the
idea of gardening with nature and follows patterns in nature to
reduce your garden’s impact on the environment. The
Permaculture Association describes Permaculture as

“an approach to land management and settlement
design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing

natural ecosystems.”

The program aims to increase outdoor learning, create effective
food growing spaces and increase natural areas and biodiversity within the school grounds.
WTWA is broken down into the 12 permaculture principles. All the activities are designed around the Children in Permaculture hands, heart and head approach and whenever possible are child-led.

This program is run in collaboration with LESS (Lancaster District) CIC and on behalf of the Food Futures Network. Rewilding Roots are kindly funded by The Areti Charitable Trust.

The program is currently full but please get in touch to if you are interested.

The Potato Fairy Competition

Every year in March the Potato Fairy delivers 2 seed potatoes to every class in schools wanting to join the Potato Fairy Competition. There are 27 schools entering the competition this year. New schools receive potato grow bags, compost and sessions about how to grow potatoes. There are 3 categories:

1 - single heaviest potato

2 - heaviest crop of potatoes from 2 seeds

3 - greatest number of potatoes from 2 seeds

Results are announced at the Childrens' Green Fair. Prizes for winners are solar wildlife motion cameras.

This is only possible with the support of LDCVS and Lancaster City Council.

If you would like to join the competition next year please email Alex: rewildingrootsuk@gmail.com

Wilderness Schools

Wilderness Schools are all about our connection to nature and the natural world. Many children and young people lack the means to visit the countryside regularly so we aim through this project to bring nature to them and into their school grounds. This allows them to explore the natural world in a space that is
familiar and safe to them and builds a bridge to the countryside outside our urban areas. This relationship with nature if developed young can be carried throughout the children and young people's lives, with this comes empathy and understanding, a place of calm and quiet, and a place to build memories.
Wilderness Schools aim is not just to increase the time children and young people are out in nature during lessons but to actively engage them with nature. This is where the benefit to mental well-being is found and the connection to nature is formed. The project has been structured so that it has a core set of activities based around the 5 pathways to nature connectedness with additional activities designed to adapt to your school’s own needs and curriculum. The 5 pathways to nature connectedness is a framework developed by researchers at the University of Derby, aims to help individuals and communities strengthen their relationship with the natural world.

We wouldn't be able to run this pilot scheme without the support of the Areti Charitable Trust.

The pilot scheme is currently full but please get in touch if you are interested in joining next year.

Garden Centre Enterprise Project

The Garden Centre Enterprise Project is kindly funded by the Banks Lyon Memorial Trust. We are working with students at Morecambe Road School to make use of their amazing polytunnel and allotment space to set up and run a garden centre to sell the plants and produce they grow as part of their Level 1 in Horticulture. This will give them real life experience of setting up and running a business whilst learning essential growing and plant care skills. They have called they enterprise Morecambe Greenery, watch this space for more information on how you can support this project.