Emerging at Lopemede
At Lopemede Farm, Future Oaks (a Community Interest Company) is creating a healthy, living landscape where nature — including people — can thrive for generations by deepening relationships between people, place and the wider living world, so that life can flourish here and beyond.
Through embodied learning in food, farming and nature connection, ecosystem restoration, and shared stewardship of the land with our community of partners, we nurture lasting change.
Our school visits and farm experiences explore life at Lopemede as a living lab where food, farming and nature connection come to life through hands-on learning outdoors.
Please contact us: info@futureoaks.co.uk
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Why at Lopemede?
- Lopemede Farm is a living classroom where nature is the teacher.
- Many people are disconnected from the sources of their food, water and wellbeing.
- Future Oaks works with this real, working landscape to offer playful, creative, nature-based learning for children, young people and adults.
- Our aim: grow people who can care for, understand and imaginatively re-shape the places they belong to.
How we learn
- Participant-led, nature-based learning in a held frame. Future Oaks designs and facilitates programmes where people of all ages learn with the fields, streams, meadows and habitats. Experiences are carefully held and structured by facilitators, using activities, games, stories, dialogue, experiments and making. Within this clear frame, participants’ questions, choices and ideas are welcomed and given space to influence what emerges.
- Core ways of relating: curious, playful, caring, fair, inclusive, reflective and reciprocal.
- Universal themes: we are nature, more-than-human relationships, web of life, cycles and seasons, future generations, collective imagination, belonging to place (nature connection)
What we do & what changes
- We weave farming, food and land-skills with creativity, wellbeing and community through three strands:
- Farming – practical stewardship
- Food – the full food system
- Nature-based skills, community & creativity
- All delivered through long-term “living labs” on the farm: market garden, gardens, stream, meadows, orchards, hedgerows, habitats and bees.
- Through these real projects, people of all ages develop:
- Ecological understanding and practical land-based skills
- Stronger nature connection, playfulness and wellbeing
- Deeper community, collaboration and a culture of care
- A deep sense of responsibility for the more-than-human world, and tangible, regenerative impacts on the land