Father’s Day Catch & Cook
We think we’ve got the perfect way for you to celebrate the special Dad in your
life.
Firstly team up to catch a few fish in our pond (we provide all the equipment you need), before you watch how we fillet them by hand. Then you take them into the Cafe by the Lake where our chef who will turn them into delicious fish and chips for all the family!
From Lake to Plate, it’s the freshest meal you’ll ever eat and it’s the perfect way to relax and spend time together as a family.
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| Father's Day Catch & Cook - extra meal | £9.50 |
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| Father's Day Catch & Cook - extra rod | £7.00 |
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| Father's Day Catch & Cook | £22.50 |
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Campfire cooking
A perfect day for the fresh-air foodie. We’ll spend the day cooking on the campfire with the most basic ingredients – but we’ll still cook up a feast! We will start by preparing fish fresh from the Kilnsey lakes for cooking over the fire, bake a couple of different breads, and end the day with some delicious campfire desserts.
There will be plenty of hot drinks and snacks throughout the day to keep the wolf from the door.
Activities:
Fire management
Starter ingredients
Foraging for ingredients
What you will cook:
Flat breads – 3 ways
Onion rings
Campfire pizza
Hunters pudding
Kettle-steamed treacle pudding
Raspberry doughnuts
Crumpets
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| Campfire cooking course |
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Family bushcraft day
An action-packed day for families who want to take the first steps into bushcraft, and just spend some quality time together. We’ll cover everything from the essential skills needed to spend a night in the woods, to how you can get the most out of your family time outdoors. Centered around play and working as a family, you’ll make a fire together, cook your lunch and build a shelter. We’ll also look at making a few things to take home. With experienced bushcraft leader Jamie Dakota.
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| Family bushcraft day - extra child | £15.00 |
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| Family bushcraft day |
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Family bushcraft day
A great way to share new experiences and have a fun day together. Come and spend the day in the woods where childhood memories are waiting to be made. We’ll start with a few games, have a shelter building competition, try our hand at some woodland crafts, gather materials to light a fire and cook our lunch. Using a Kelly Kettle, we will make hot chocolate and we’ll end the day whittling sticks to toast marshmallows over the fire. With Forest Schools trained instructor Fiona Busfield.
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| Family bushcraft day - extra child | £15.00 |
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| Family bushcraft day |
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Outdoors holiday club
Join us for fun in the woods – building dens, playing wide games, making natural art, traversing rope bridges or chilling in the hammock… each day will be different.
A great way to build confidence and self-esteem through engaging, motivating and achievable tasks.
Your child will come home happy, tired (quite possibly muddy) and smelling of campfire smoke.
Please bring your own packed lunch. Includes campfire snack and hot chocolate.
Led by Forest Schools trained instructor Fiona Busfield.
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| Outdoor holiday club - Friday 2 June | £25.00 |
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| Outdoor holiday club - Thursday 1 June | £25.00 |
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Spring wild food foraging course – NEW DATE
Celebrate nature’s larder on this enjoyable, informative foraging adventure in the Dales. Learn about a wide range of common edible plants, their uses as food and medicine.
This foraging walk is designed to familiarise yourself with a wide range of common edible plants, their uses as food and medicine, and how to differentiate them from potential poisonous lookalikes.
Spring is a great time to forage as plants are sending up succulent and nutritious new growth. You will also lean how to forage legally, ethically and mindfully, with sustainable consumption as a key goal.
Typically we would cover up to 30 edible species of plant in the 3 hours, also there is a possibility of the odd edible spring fungi also. We will also serve tea and a foraged snack.
Attendees are encouraged to take photos, notes and samples to aid their learning.
You will be guided by experienced forager Matt Normansell of Eden Wild Food. To find out more visit www.edenwildfood.co.uk
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| Spring wild food foraging course | £28.50 |
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Wild Weekend 26-28 August
Do you remember the thrill of climbing your first tree?
Wild Weekends are a celebration of the natural things that make the countryside so fun. Build your own brilliant den in the woods then make a tree spirit with clay. Learn how to light a fire without matches. It’s mud pies galore and stream splashing for the little ones. After all that exertion you’ll be ready for marshmallows over an crackling campfire.
NEW FOR 2017: Catch a fish then we’ll show you how to prepare it before we cook it for you in the café – so now you can enjoy fish & chips that you’ve helped to catch, a real hunter gatherer experience!
Wild Weekend 19-20 August
Do you remember the thrill of climbing your first tree?
Wild Weekends are a celebration of the natural things that make the countryside so fun. Build your own brilliant den in the woods then make a tree spirit with clay. Learn how to light a fire without matches. It’s mud pies galore and stream splashing for the little ones. After all that exertion you’ll be ready for marshmallows over an crackling campfire.
NEW FOR 2017: Catch a fish then we’ll show you how to prepare it before we cook it for you in the café – so now you can enjoy fish & chips that you’ve helped to catch, a real hunter gatherer experience!
Wild Weekend 12-13 August
Do you remember the thrill of climbing your first tree?
Wild Weekends are a celebration of the natural things that make the countryside so fun. Build your own brilliant den in the woods then make a tree spirit with clay. Learn how to light a fire without matches. It’s mud pies galore and stream splashing for the little ones. After all that exertion you’ll be ready for marshmallows over an crackling campfire.
NEW FOR 2017: Catch a fish then we’ll show you how to prepare it before we cook it for you in the café – so now you can enjoy fish & chips that you’ve helped to catch, a real hunter gatherer experience!
Wild Weekend 5-6 August
Do you remember the thrill of climbing your first tree?
Wild Weekends are a celebration of the natural things that make the countryside so fun. Build your own brilliant den in the woods then make a tree spirit with clay. Learn how to light a fire without matches. It’s mud pies galore and stream splashing for the little ones. After all that exertion you’ll be ready for marshmallows over an crackling campfire.
NEW FOR 2017: Catch a fish then we’ll show you how to prepare it before we cook it for you in the café – so now you can enjoy fish & chips that you’ve helped to catch, a real hunter gatherer experience!