Today youngest child and I have been wildnetworking at Sudborough Green Lodge Cottages, with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art.
There, in the middle of nowhere, artists can go to stay and work. They also do schools workshops etc. I have been taking my children (and sometimes their reluctant friends) to help recreate the garden space over the past year or so, where they have a ‘garden working party’ to help with the improvement work.
It is an amazing location and an amazing site and every time we have been there something interesting has happened. Once there was a swarm of bees that had alighted onto a garden bench, we spent the afternoon waiting (slightly nervously) for the ‘beeman’ to come. The next, whilst shifting rubble my friend saw, at the very last moment, a nest of field mice hiding in some weeds which were about to be scooped up and thrown onto the bonfire. Over the time we have been doing our very small bit in the way of rubble routing and earth shifting, the whole place has been transformed. It is very much ongoing work but the results are rewarding and inspiring.
Today we were weeding out prickly stuff from a ‘slow growing’ lawn which was progressing nicely on the more sheltered side of the house. As always there were other interesting ‘workers’ of great variety – usually artists, and we always leave feeling uplifted. Whilst we all weeded, my son gathered a small collection of unearthed treasures – he has eagle eyes.
