Nature Connection

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Hominids have had a relationship with plants for more than 1 million years. The methods for processing plants have changed little in that time. Shredding, stripping, retting, carding, thrashing, winowing and grinding. The technology and plants have changed, but the process remains the same.  Learning with a few plants, their properties and the primitive forms of processing are the skills and knowledge which bring us into a closer relationship with nature, when this is learned as part of a cooperative learning group in nature on an overnight which includes food, campfire, observation skills and a walk in ancient an ancient landscape with commentary on the history of ancient woodlands, coppice, hedge laying and the history of coppicing in Britain and Europe, which dates back to the earliest stone-age farmers. From processed plant materials, we begin to understand that skills are not compartmentalised and learned in isolation from one another. Processing fibre ...