Join us for an introduction to dowsing for earth energy lines at the extraordinary prehistoric sites on Mardon Down.
Walk with us through an ancient, ritual landscape on Dartmoor, through the eight stone circles on North East Dartmoor that form an approximate arc.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Feel daily stresses melt away and senses come alive as we walk silently together along ancient tracks, cross sinuous copper-gold coloured streams on high open moorland, journey past old stones and bones, and watch the clouds shapeshifting above us. Every step brings us closer to appreciating the beauty, history, and magic of this living, working landscape.
Walk a section of the ancient Mariners Way through beautiful woodland, fields, and old holloways then back up on to the open moor along a tor ridge taking in the stunning 360 degree views on a clear day. We’ll walk through the ruins of Bronze Age hut circles and field systems, and hopefully see flora, fauna and other wonders along the way.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. You will already have a basic knowledge of fungi and this intermediate level session will explore in more depth this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Myths and legends of witches abound on Dartmoor – Old Hannah, Witch Hare, Levera, Vixana, Mary Ann, and more. Some offered helpful ‘blessing for bleedings’ or wart charms. But most stories tell of women who were old and wicked. This twisted truth stems from the medieval witch-hunts, and has been rife for centuries. Instead these indigenous wisdom-keepers were likely community mid-wives and herbalists working with the natural effects of weather changes, moon cycles, and seasonal plants. For Samhain, walk with Dartmoor’s Daughter to one of the locations of a Dartmoor witch legend, and see if we can reimagine these stories, and reawaken our innate human connection with nature, mystery and magic.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Join Emma for a personal and historical journey illustrated by family photographs from treasured albums, and some side-by-side comparison images from Dartmoor today.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor and Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter. You will already have a good working knowledge of fungi and be interested to delve more deeply into an advanced level of learning in a laboratory type setting.
Join us for a walk by the China Clay pits of Lee Moor and Trowlesworthy Tors, investigating how the the granite turned into clay and its effect on the nearby tors. Josephine Collingwood, author of ‘Geology of Dartmoor’ will help us to explore curious crystals, kaolinite, veins, quarried oddities and we will also see the ruins of Bronze Age settlements, pillow mounds and a vermin trap - so many unique features of Dartmoor that can all be discovered nearby.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Join Emma for an illustrated online journey through some of the ancient tracks on Dartmoor used by farmers, tinners, monks, merchants, peat cutters, sailors, the dead...and more. Based on a 1986 book of the same name by Eric Hemery, Emma will share some of the history and mystery of these beautiful old ways.
In the deep valleys and high moors of the South West of England, the tales of the Pixies have been told for centuries. These spirits are mischievous and marvellous, as they help and hinder their human neighbours. Through magical imagination, these tales help bring us closer to the landscape of Dartmoor with wonder and curiosity. The Pixies guide us through the land and remind us to take care, always be kind and never forget how to play!
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. You will already have a basic knowledge of fungi and this intermediate level session will explore in more depth this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Myths and legends of witches abound on Dartmoor – Old Hannah, Witch Hare, Levera, Vixana, Mary Ann, and more. Some offered helpful ‘blessing for bleedings’ or wart charms. But most stories tell of women who were old and wicked. This twisted truth stems from the medieval witch-hunts, and has been rife for centuries. Instead these indigenous wisdom-keepers were likely community mid-wives and herbalists working with the natural effects of weather changes, moon cycles, and seasonal plants. For Samhain, walk with Dartmoor’s Daughter to one of the locations of a Dartmoor witch legend, and see if we can reimagine these stories, and reawaken our innate human connection with nature, mystery and magic.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor, Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter and Daniel Thompson-Mills of Steward Community Woodland. On a walk through the woods, you will learn how to identify fungi and find out all about this marvellous kingdom of nature.
Humans have manipulated Dartmoor to suit our needs for thousands of years. This talk focuses on the success and failures of some of the entrepreneurs quarrying for granite and china clay; streaming or mining tin, copper, arsenic, and silver; making ice, lime, glass and gunpowder; anddigging peat. With just a few mines/quarries currently in operation, nature has swiftly taken back over the old sites so that's it's easy to miss them or not know they are there.
Rare opportunity to walk alongside, and be entertained by, Jim Causley celebrated folk-singer, multi-award winning songwriter and musician. Our beautiful circular walk from South Zeal up to Cosdon and back again interspersed by songs and music inspired by Dartmoor. BBC Music Magazine said Jim has “A wealth of imagination, wit and storytelling…enthralling”.
Join us for a stunning circular walk to majestic Watern Tor. Along the way, we will enjoy an ancient stone circle, tin-streaming ruins, a beautiful river, as well as local myths and legend.
Join us for a fascinating morning exploration of the history of sheep and importance of the wool industry through the ages on Dartmoor. Walking from Dunnabridge, we will enjoy a short circular walk to Laughter Tor and prehistoric stone row whilst also exploring the 'sheep measure’ and various plants, lichens and other ingredients that were used by our ancestors to produce natural dyes for wool.
This walk is organised as part of the exhibition ‘Dyeing on Dartmoor’ at The Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton, and is funded by the Royal Society.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Journey through deep time from Dartmoor’s earliest geological history to the present day. Explore the principles of geology and Dartmoor’s extraordinary rocks, minerals and features with Dartmoor’s Daughter and Josephine Collingwood author of ‘Geology of Dartmoor’.
Walk with us through an ancient, ritual landscape on Dartmoor, through the eight stone circles on North East Dartmoor that form an approximate arc.
Stroll from sunset to sunrise with Dartmoor’s Daughter and Tony Whitehead to experience the extraordinary soundscape that is Dartmoor. Some of you will love the dark, some may fear it. Join our small group for a slow and immersive meander in the moonlight up tors, down valleys, and along riverbanks with plenty of sitting/lying down spots as well as some quiet time along the way to rest and drink it all in.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Join us for a short walk in the dark to a clearing in the woods where we sit and listen to the extraordinary soundscape of the waking chorus of birds. Yarner Woods is a bird haven so we hope to hear, and possibly see redstart, pied flycatcher, wood warbler, blackbird, song thrush, mistle thrush, great spotted woodpecker, raven, jay, blackcap, and many more. If we are lucky, we may even hear the pre-dawn churring of nightjar.
Join us on St George’s Day to explore all aspects of dragons on Dartmoor. We will hear myths about dragons and see the ruins of tin-mining locations named after them. And also have the opportunity to dowse for ‘serpent lines’ (earth energy lines) at an ancient ceremonial site.
Celebrate upcoming Beltane and the greening of the earth with a two-day, two-night retreat at beautiful Bala Brook. Enjoy a nourishing combination of walks, rest, meditation, ritual, stories, foraging and delicious seasonal meals. Each day will start with a meditation and sharing circle, and then together we will walk the extraordinary and ancient Dartmoor landscape learning about and listening to the land, ancestors and myths as well as our own inner wisdom as to how we might want to align our intentions for growth in the year ahead.
-CANCELLED- For thousands of years, our ancestors tracked animals and each other using the prints and signs left behind. Fun and educational, this introductory activity invites families to awaken their senses to track signs and symbols in the landscape.
Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation.
Join Emma for an illustrated online journey through some of the ancient tracks on Dartmoor used by farmers, tinners, monks, merchants, peat cutters, sailors, the dead...and more. Based on a 1986 book of the same name by Eric Hemery, Emma will share some of the history and mystery of these beautiful old ways.
Explore the fascinating world of fungi with mycologist Dr Christian Taylor and Emma from Dartmoor's Daughter. You will already have a good working knowledge of fungi and be interested to delve more deeply into an advanced level of learning in a laboratory type setting.
