Foraging & RewildingWeekend workshop

Lakeside Rewilding & Wetland Restoration

Furnace Brook Farm · Hailsham, United Kingdom

A weekend reading water and helping a spring-fed lake and its wet meadows return to life.

Plant wet-meadow and lakeside nativesBuild a simple hide and dockMap the wetland's wildlife and water

What you'll learn

Read a wetland and its water
Choose and plant native margins
Plan habitat for birds and pollinators

What the land gains

Wet-meadow margins replanted around the lake
A birdwatching hide built by the water

The host site

Furnace Brook Farm

A six-acre lake and the woodland reviving around it

A spring-fed, six-acre lake sits at the heart of this Sussex smallholding, ringed by woodland and wet meadow that the owners are slowly bringing back to life. There is always a margin to plant, a hide to build, or a coppice to cut.

Your teacher

Nadia Haddad

Willow weaver & basketmaker

4.8 · 29 reviews · 12 yrs teaching