Shillingford Organics Farm School

Shillingford Organics Farm School A nature farm-based outdoor learning experience connecting people to sustainable food and where it comes from

21/12/2025

This weekend marked our final Farm School session of 2025 💚☀️🙏🏾
a gentle closing of the year, held in the stillness of the winter solstice.
We harvested made and gathered around a Middle Eastern feast:
21 plant ingredients folded into a warming wrap 🌯
our infamous Farm School Dynamite
inspired by foul medames, rich Egyptian fava beans,
with fried aubergine, golden potatoes,
fresh fennel and cucumber 🥒, winter greens alive with crunch.
As dusk settled, we shared ceremonial cacao,
honouring the longest night,
embodied magic,
welcoming the return of the light.
Sun ☀️ at Farm School.
Grateful for this year,
and already dreaming into our 2026 Farm School adventures.

06/12/2025

One of the best things in life is free: foraging for beauty in the wild 🌿✨
Embodying seasonality, festivity, and the elements in every colour of the landscape — we had our very own rainbow today 🌈

We headed out to gather ingredients for a delicious beetroot & mint soup for lunch 😋🥣, then wandered further to collect willow and winter greenery for making our own Christmas wreaths to take home 🎄💫

Nature gave generously — and we left full of colour, warmth, and joy.

25/11/2025

🌿✨ Why Art Matters ✨🌿

"Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists"

John Dewey.

"Arts and culture … are the foundations for reimagining alternative futures, fostering civic identity, and mobilising collective action"

Mariana Mazzucato

Today we’re celebrating the beautiful artwork created by children exploring food, nature, and our relationship with the planet.

Art matters because it gives young people a voice.
It helps them express hopes, questions, and big ideas that don’t always fit into words. Through colour, texture, and imagination, children remind us of what truly nourishes us, healthy food, thriving ecosystems, and communities that care.

These pieces aren’t just drawings.
They’re invitations to look closer, listen deeper, and dream of a future where people and nature flourish together.

🌱💛 Let their creativity inspire us to protect the world they’re growing up in, and to build food systems that are kinder, fairer, and more sustainable.

22/11/2025

Rain? Mud? Wild weather?
Farm Schoolers don’t flinch. 💪🌧️🌱

We trekked out to the brassica field, learned to harvest cauliflower like organic legends, unwrapped flavour-packed beauties hidden inside those leaves… then cooked up a cosy aloo gobi to warm us through.

Plus a stop at the packhouse to see how organic farms pack, sort & send veggies from field to fork.
The full journey .. all in one day. 💚🥬🔥

16/11/2025

Celeriac is a quintessential British winter vegetable, an ancient, knobbly beast of the earth. Yesterday at Farm School we explored its quiet magic: it takes around 120 days for its hidden root to swell into that noble globe of flavour. Four whole moons of patience… 🌕✨

We started our session with a gentle walk & talk, harvesting everything for our lunch straight from the land celeriac, celery, apples and thyme. We learned about the last apple varieties of the season, each with its own shape and flavour.

Then we stepped back in time and met the medlar, a medieval fruit we harvested to blet for our Christmas lunch in a few weeks, where we’ll turn it into a beautiful medlar cream.
We also gathered mallow and ashwagandha seeds, tiny winter treasures.

Back in the kitchen we washed, scrubbed and honoured the celeriac, transforming it into:

🥣 Apple & thyme soup
🥗 Celeriac rémoulade

Almost half our group had never tried celeriac before and I love that moment when something unfamiliar becomes curious.

✨ Did you know

Celeriac is rich in vitamin C, vitamin K, antioxidants, fibre for gut health, and minerals like magnesium and phosphorus. A true winter ally. 🌿

What made the day even more special was the beautiful mix of people around the table Ethiopian, Malaysian, Indian, Scottish, Egyptian and Chinese friends. Farm School is where human diversity meets biodiversity. A place to remember that we aren’t separate from nature… we are nature.

✨ If you want to learn, taste, explore and reconnect with the land, with community, and with yourself join our Saturday groups. Every week brings a new food experience, a new story, a new kind of magic.






















11/10/2025

🍂 Autumn is the season of magic ✨

- Because it’s the Earth’s deep exhale, a season of release, rest, and renewal. The trees teach us to let go gracefully, trusting that new life will return.

- Because ancient traditions honour this moment as a turning of the wheel, the time of harvest and gratitude, of gathering what we’ve grown and giving thanks before winter’s quiet.

- Because in our psyche, autumn stirs reflection, it invites us inward, to slow down, savour, and find beauty in impermanence.. A reminder that change can be tender, and endings can be rich with colour.

Because food tastes different now: apples sharper, squash sweeter, chestnuts smoky and warm. We cook slowly, with intention, rooted in the rhythm of the land, feeding both body and spirit.

Because Autumn is the bridge between light and dark, action and rest, outer growth and inner knowing. It’s nature’s most poetic lesson:

to let go, give thanks, and begin again 🍂

Today we celebrated this autumnal magic with:

🌰 Foraging and toasting chestnuts over the fire
🍎 Harvesting apples — Golden Noble and Egremont Russets — tasting the sharp and the sweet
🎨 Drawing and painting the colours of change
🧂 Making sage salt, to carry a little autumn wisdom into winter
🥣 Cooking and feasting on a 7-ingredient barley + squash risotto made with:
onions, uchiki kuri squash, sage, barley, olive oil, nutritional yeast, and sunflower seeds

A feast for the heart, mind, body, and soul 🍁✨

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