Woodland.Wild.Wanderlust

12/01/2026

12/01/2026

Giant Sequoia Trees in Balloch Castle Country Park ♥️
Smaller, younger specimens but still marvellous all the same 🙌🏻

08/01/2026

🔔Extra info regarding our Wassail🔔

We’ll meet under the open barn in Meanwood Valley Urban Farm and make our way to the orchard together for the Wassail ceremony, where there’ll be plenty of songs to join in with.

❤ Kids are very welcome.

🎫No ticket or pre-booking is required for this event - just turn up! It is a Pay As You Feel entry, and there will be card readers available.

🍎We will provide a hot vegetarian meal and hot drinks around the fire once the Wassail ceremony is finished, and there will be a bar where you can buy cider and hot apple juice.

🌨 This event will be entirely outside, so you’ll want to be dressed in warm clothing and footwear suitable for the outdoors and uneven ground.

If the weather’s looking too grim, we’ll postpone to Thursday, 5th Feb, same time. We’ll try to give you as much notice as possible if it looks like we need to postpone

We recommend bringing a headtorch, or even better, a lantern!

🌀Wassailing outfits are very much encouraged. You may want to bring a pot and a wooden spoon to make some noise with! If you’d like to play an instrument, bring it along and there may be a chance to play around the fire. If you don’t like loud noises, we recommend bringing some earplugs or headphones.

🚲We encourage you to travel by public transport, bike or on foot, but if you’re unable to, please avoid parking on Sugarwell Road as it will disturb the local residents.

Accessibility Info:

🌟There are toilets at the farm.

🌟Due to the uneven ground, this event is not wheelchair accessible.

🌟There will be loud noises.

01/01/2026

Woodland dog walk in my pj’s to welcome in the new year! 🥾🐾

23/12/2025

We honour the good of the moon for guiding hunters through the forest at night 🌕🌙

21/12/2025

Yuletide Blessings 🔥

By frost‑kissed night and candle’s gleam,
may power stir within your dream.
By ancient fire and evergreen,
may all you seek move in between.
As newborn sun begins to rise,
may magic spark behind your eyes.

20/12/2025

Mother's Night (Mōdraniht) is an ancient Germanic and Anglo-Saxon tradition, marking the eve of the Winter Solstice (around December 20th) as the official start of Yule celebrations, a time to honor ancestral mothers, goddesses like F***g, and the divine feminine for protection and fertility, often involving feasting, storytelling, and rituals to welcome the returning sun and honor female lineage. It's a night to acknowledge the "Disir" (ancestral mothers) and female deities, strengthening family bonds and the connection to the spiritual world before the long winter nights, a precursor to the 12 Days of Yule.

06/12/2025

Sorry for the lack of content and communication recently!
My only time outside at the moment is 5am & 8:30pm - sometimes life gets ahead of us & has to take priority 🥲

05/11/2025

Honey fungus is a destructive group of fungi (Armillaria species) that attacks and kills the roots of many woody and perennial plants, often causing sudden plant death
It spreads underground via rhizomorphs, bootlace-like black threads that can grow up to 1 metre per year 🕸️
honey fungus (Armillaria mellea) is edible but only with caution. It must be thoroughly cooked, and some people may experience digestive upset even when prepared properly. 🙌🏻

29/10/2025

Fungi trifecta 🤍
Fly Agaric 🍄
Turkey Tail 🦃
Candle s***f fungus 🕯️

26/10/2025

Excuse me dropping my phone at the start! Chaos as always 😂
Puffball mushrooms
They lack the typical mushroom cap and gills. Instead, they produce spores internally in a spherical structure called a gasterothecium
Edible when young: Most true puffballs are safe to eat when their interior is solid white. Once they begin to yellow or darken, they’re no longer edible

04/10/2025