The Nature Seed (Hardback)
How to Raise Adventurous and Nurturing Kids
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The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide to sharing the wonders of the natural world with your children.
'A practical, no-nonsense guide to getting children back to nature ... Brilliant' Stephen Moss
'A valuable practical guide to helping children form a kinship with nature' Independent
Many of us want to spend more time outside with our kids - but what do we do when we're there, and why is a connection to nature so important and wonderful anyway?
The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide for anyone with children in their lives. Full of the wonders of sharing the natural world with young minds, it's a manual for finding awe in the cracks of the pavement and magic on a stroll around the block.
Whether on an urban walk or in an inner-city park, out in the woods or by the sea, Lucy weaves together stories of how a connection to nature helps children thrive, and Ken draws on his time working with kids outdoors to give you creative, easy and free child-led activities to deepen that connection, from wild art to simple fires, potions, foraging and make-believe.
Wherever you live, The Nature Seed offers a radical vision of a new kinship with nature, one that will help all of us expand, nurture and deepen our wild life.
The Nature Seed (Ebook)
How to Raise Adventurous and Nurturing Kids
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The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide to sharing the wonders of the natural world with your children.
'A practical, no-nonsense guide to getting children back to nature ... Brilliant' Stephen Moss
'A valuable practical guide to helping children form a kinship with nature' Independent
Many of us want to spend more time outside with our kids - but what do we do when we're there, and why is a connection to nature so important and wonderful anyway?
The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide for anyone with children in their lives. Full of the wonders of sharing the natural world with young minds, it's a manual for finding awe in the cracks of the pavement and magic on a stroll around the block.
Whether on an urban walk or in an inner-city park, out in the woods or by the sea, Lucy weaves together stories of how a connection to nature helps children thrive, and Ken draws on his time working with kids outdoors to give you creative, easy and free child-led activities to deepen that connection, from wild art to simple fires, potions, foraging and make-believe.
Wherever you live, The Nature Seed offers a radical vision of a new kinship with nature, one that will help all of us expand, nurture and deepen our wild life.
Reviews for The Nature Seed
A practical, no-nonsense guide to getting children back to nature - complete with why we need to do so. Brilliant
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Stephen Moss
Amy Liptrot
So uplifting and practical, it helps us look forwards rather than be paralysed by fear and angst
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Mary Colwell
Independent
New Scientist
Information for the unsure adult to gain some confidence with UK wildlife
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New Scientist
Excellent at drawing out the relationship between people and the outdoors ... [helps] anyone with kids in their
life share the wonders and magic of the natural world and encourage children to deepen their relationship with it
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Bloom Magazine
Praise for Losing Eden by Lucy Jones:
Urgent, accessible, moving ... A beautifully written, research-heavy study about how nature offers us wellbeing
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Observer
New Statesman
Telegraph Book of the Year
Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
Praise for Foxes Unearthed by Lucy Jones:
Jones's history of our complex relationship with the fox is revealing... to discover there was an 18th-century sport of 'fox tossing' almost makes this worth the purchase alone
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John Lewis-Stempel The Times Books of the Year 2016
Chris Packham, broadcaster and naturalist
Tom Holland Times Literary Supplement
Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground
Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones is the author of Losing Eden and Foxes Unearthed. Especially interested in the psychological relationship beween humans and the rest of nature, she spends as much time as possible outside with her children.
Kenneth Greenway
Kenneth Greenway is the Cemetery Park Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. He has worked full-time in nature conversation since 2000 and has two decades of experience of working with children in natural spaces, including running forest school. He has two children and spends most of his time immersed in the living world