Singing with nightingales
Provided a site for singing with nightingales.
Green Farm featured on BBC breakfast & Radio Four with Sam Lee’s singing with nightingales.
This was a light touch event, which not only gave people the opportunity to hear the wonderful nightingales, but also is a focus for Green Farm to raise the profile of the importance of nightingales and the importance of their own land and the surround ancient woodlands, pasture and ancient pasture.
Please let us know if you would like details of next year’s dates as they become available.
Fabulous artists such as Gwyneth Herbert, Clara Sanabras, Sam Lee
Outdoor People visit August 2017
https://outdoorpeople.org.uk/blogs/events/outdoor-family-camping-green-farm-kent-9th-12th-august-2017
And last year’s camping is here: https://outdoorpeople.org.uk/blogs/outdoor-family-camping/outdoor-family-camping-in-kent
Wildlife Community Garden
We are always looking for volunteers
Community service people have dramatically improved our site
Outdoor people parents and children will spend time in the community garden, learning about simple ways of growing things and making their own bird feeders, pizzas etc.
Spa
Late night opening on Wednesday evenings
New staff member Molly Pope joining Helen and Nejla part of the team too.
Yoga Retreats with Emma Deery
This year we started running yoga retreats with our friend Emma Deery, these were received very well. Emma is taking time off on maternity leave, as she is expecting in September.
Emma’s yoga and vegan cake were very well received at Green Farm with a good turnout of 22 people at one of the dates.
NEW WEEKEND RETREATS
Weekend Retreats featuring Yoga and optional Art Class
Run Every 6 weeks
Join us for a weekend of restoration, health & wellbeing a combination of yoga, spa, art and nourishing home-made foods. Combined with relaxing country walks, massages and spa treatments, set in the most beautiful Kent Countryside.
Weekend Art Retreat
Friday, September 22nd to Sunday, September 24th. From £395 per person
Stay in our beautifully restored Green Farm House, enjoy the spa, the farm, the tranquillity of everything that Green Farm has to offer, eat nourishing and wholesome home cooked meals, all while you wile away the days in Catherine’s art workshops
WEEKLY ART AND YOGA CLASSES
ART Class Every Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm
Come along for 2 hours of drawing or painting in our hay
barn under the expert tuition of Catherine Farr
Yoga Every Thursday from 5.45pm to 7.00pm
Come and join us for a yoga class held within the orchard under the willow tree or in the Hay barn in slightly colder weather.
Yoga Class Every Saturday 9.00am to 10.15am
Come and join us for a yoga class held within the orchard under the willow tree or in the Haybarn in slightly colder weather.
EVENTS
Autumn Equinox Yoga Evening
Friday, 22 September from 06pm to 8.30pm
Balancing mind and body, come and join us at Green Farm, with one pot vegan meal around the camp fire
COURSES
Wildlife Gardening
TBC 10am to 1pm
Forget weedkiller, pesticides and other chemicals and learn how to work with nature to create your own flower and vegetable garden that encourages abundant wildlife. You could leave with your own mini-wildlife garden in a seed tray.
Colour in the Countryside
TBC 10am to 1pm
Saturday, September 9th from 10am to 3pm, including lunch: £40 per person
You will get an understanding of using acrylic paint and how to compose a painting from observation. You will leave with your own colour composition of our wonderful wildlife garden
Drawing in the Wildlife Garden
TBC from 10am to 3pm, including lunch: £40 per person
You will get an introduction to using line drawing by experimenting with different forms of marking and you will leave with your own interpretation of our wonderful wildlife garden
Green Farm, Farm Gate, Duck Lane, Shadoxhurst, Kent TN26 1LT
