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environment for young people.
While working in the woodland,
she brought her three young sons- then aged six, eight and ten – to
visit and they found solace in the
woods after enduring a traumatic
experience.
“I saw the benefits of them
playing and being wild,” she
says. “The woodland was perfect.
There were three islands, so
they had one each, and they
were playing, building dens and
getting muddy. It’s really quite
shocking how many children
don’t get the chance to play in
Nature, even in Cornwall. It’s
very wild in the woods here and
‘It’s an area rich in history.
I believe it was once an
ancient woodland - we
know we can go back
to 1740 when trees
were felled and the area
replanted as plantation’Chris Cooke of Cornwall Swimming Horses has been working with Heart of the Woods to show on how horses can replace machinery
Learn about Nature at the Heart of the Woods Forest School