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This land has been allowed to rest, restore, renourish, and rewild. Here’s an invitation for you to do the same.
Wild Weekends are a series of life-affirming retreats birthed from this land and our team. Each invites disconnection from technology and everyday pressures, and reconnection with something much more profound.
Choose from Rewild, Renourish, and Restore. Each offers beautiful, wild surroundings; quietly luxurious ensuite accommodation; deeply nourishing vegetarian meals; and lovingly-held experiences designed to support you to consciously slow down and rediscover your place in the interconnectedness of all things.
These weekends are our vision made real. They will stay with you long after you leave this land.
WILD WEEKENDS INCLUDE:
- Starts Fri at 2pm. Closes Sun at 2pm
- Beautiful, ensuite accommodation
- Nourishing vegetarian ‘Soil-to-Gut’ meals
- ‘Food, Fire & Forest’ experience
- Immersive, guided experiences
- Wild swimming & woodland sauna
- Freedom to explore 173 acres
- Powered 100% by renewable energy
A weekend to slow down and reconnect, to deepen your knowledge of the natural world and how to live in conversation with it.
With immersive experiences of our nature restoration projects, exploring how we steward this land for all the lives on it. Designed to foster a sense of spaciousness, peace, and profound belonging to the earth.
Rewild Includes
Eat, forage, graze, harvest, and cook deeply medicinal foods that have been wild-tended and organically grown on the land you’re walking.
A head, heart and hands weekend exploring a way of growing and eating cultivates and restores the wellbeing of our planet Earth, and cultivates and restores the wellbeing within ourselves.
Renourish Includes
Self-care the wild way! A weekend wild spa retreat rooted in nature, dedicated to restoring mind and body.
Join us for thoughtful somatic movement, nourishing breathwork and yoga practices. With gentle, tailored treatments; wholesome, nourishing food; and the elemental restorative of wild swimming & woodfired sauna
Restore Includes
“42 Acres is a dream come true. Every tiny detail has been thought of, and the staff are so welcoming and warm. The stunning natural environment combined with the beautifully modernised interiors fills you with a sense of calm and child-like wonder. We could not recommend it enough!”
Alice and Emily, 2024
Wild Weekends – The Details
On arrival, we’ll welcome you to The Hermitage. This is our sacred space. Inside, you’ll find understated luxury and timeless simplicity – natural light, real fires, soft touches and far-reaching views down to the lake.
Our team tread lightly. Our intention is to be helpful but unintrusive – allowing you the spaciousness to feel at home.
We supply luxurious linens, fluffy towels and local, organic toiletries. Plus thoughtful touches to support your retreat experience – from yoga mats and swim towels to art supplies and meditation tracks birthed from this land.
Wild Weekends include all meals from our deeply nourishing “Soil-to-Gut” menu, freshly prepared by our Medicine Kitchen Team. Much of what you’ll eat has been organically homegrown and wild-foraged on this land.
Each also includes our signature ‘Food, Fire and Forest’ experience – an utterly magical, elemental evening of food cooked over fire, nestled in a clearing under the forest canopy.
Plus, each includes a schedule of immersive experiences birthed on this land and inspired by the divine wisdom of nature. We also give time and hold space to simply rest and restore.
The Price:
£350 per person double occupancy
£540 per person single occupancy
Inc meals & experiences
Please Note:
The above price is for a ‘Cosy Room.’ We offer a range of accommodation options from our most accessible ‘Loft Suite’ through to our ‘Sumptuous Rooms.’ Not forgetting the inimitable ‘Tiny Boat’
We also offer 2 whole houses – ‘Library Barn’ & ‘Monk’s Hatch’ for small groups of friends to join the retreat together and have your own space to relax. Each is fully inclusive for up to 4 people.
“I had the most wonderful and transformative experience. The Hermitage is so comfortable, the land so beautiful and all the staff looked after us with great kindness, welcome and joy. Every meal was an utter treat. Go! I really recommend it.”
Annabelle, 2024
Wild Weekends – Friends in Residence
Marian is best known for her thoughtful and regenerative approach to land design and to life. From flood plain restoration to historic estate masterplans and soulful gardens, to talking about how we can live in harmony with all that is beyond the everyday; she weaves her deep respect for our ecology, history and our future into her work, from the soil, to the gut, to the spirit.
A Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Marian’s projects invest in the land for the very long term. Kindness is a deeply embedded ethos. Marian works with the way the land can heal and connect us on all levels. Her 2019 TedX talk was on how our gardens can care for us and the earth, her book Sustainable Garden was shortlisted for Garden Book of the Year, to be followed by The Kindest Garden – out in February 2025. She has won many awards but is most interested in the long-term legacy of her work.
Marian has a Masters in landscape architecture from Greenwich, in Modern Languages from Oxford and is an agroecology coach and land energy healer. Her first career was management consultancy. She loves sunrises, beavers, wild swimming and remote ski touring.
www.marianboswall.com
Nicole discovered aromatherapy as a therapeutic outlet through difficult periods of anxiety and low mood in her early 20s and from that Self Care Co. was born.
“I have always wanted to discover a natural way to make people feel calmer and spread awareness for mental health problems.”
With this in mind, Self Care Co. hand craft small batches of candles to help naturally combat anxiety, stress and low mood, through the power of aromatherapy. Their natural vegetable wax candles are blended with a mix of essential oils, each one individually crafted to assist you in your personal self-care routine.
Nicole joins us as a friend in residence this weekend offering a Mindful Candlelit Candle-Making Experience on Friday evening. Learn about the power of essential oils and aromatherapy, and make a candle to take with you at the end of the weekend and continue your self care practice at home.