Happy Solstice!

21 December, 2024

Dear Friends,

We would like to wish you a wonderful Solstice and to extend our deepest thanks for your continued support during this challenging year. You’re probably wondering what we’ve been up to over the past few months. As always, let’s start from a place of nature’s embodied wisdom…

Just up the road from us here, in Dartmoor National Park, Sycamore trees grow in places where native Ash trees can no longer live, due to Ash dieback. As a ‘pioneer’ species, the non-native Sycamore has the potential to create new woodlands from scratch. For this reason, at first glance, the Sycamore is all too easily written off as a coloniser. When viewed with a deeper, more dynamic way of seeing, however, this non-native tree acts as a temporary custodian for the future. Over time, the Sycamore can help to create the ecological conditions necessary for ancient native Oak and Beech woodland to return.

When viewed in this way, as a temporary custodian, Sycamore is a living example of the fertile possibilities that dwell in the spaces between What Once Was, What Is, and What If.

We too are endeavouring to cultivate new life by weaving our way through these in-between spaces. Explore the links below to be one of the first to learn more about this endeavour, and to find out how and where we will be temporarily rerooting as Schumacher Wild next year.

Until these seeds of imagination bring forth their embodied roots, we are sending an abundance of love from the Dart Valley here in South Devon, and our warmest wishes for a joyful and restorative festive period, for you and your loved ones – human and more-than-human!

The Schumacher Wild team x