Wild Weekend - Wintering Well

Wild Weekends are life-affirming retreats birthed from this land and our team. They invite disconnection from technology and everyday pressures, and reconnection with something much more profound.
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Wild Weekends offer beautiful, wild surroundings; quietly-luxurious 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.
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Our vision is to reconnect with nature, self and others. These weekends are our vision made real. They will stay with you long after you leave this land.

Wintering Well

The theme for this Wild Weekend is Wintering Well. Here is an invitation to life-affirming connection & gentle transformation as we weave inner and outer work, nurture our resilience, and explore ancient plant wisdom. We’ll journey through the inner landscape of wintering while exploring the outer landscape through foraging seasonal plants, learning traditional folk medicine-making techniques, and crafting our own natural remedies to take home. (These make beautiful thoughtful gifts for the upcoming festive season). Leave feeling grounded, nourished, & reconnected to all that is.

We will walk the land and learn how to safely identify, harvest, store, and process seasonal wild ingredients. You’ll create a mini apothecary of potent folk medicines to take home – a winter gift to yourself and those you love. Learn to make:

Medicinal berry tonics (both elderberry and rosehip)
Our much-loved ‘hug in a mug’ medicinal mushroom chai syrup
A potent spruce salve

“In truth, this land is more than a retreat, it is a sanctuary and a home for all of life” Seth Tabatznik, Founder, @42acresretreat

2 nights quietly luxurious accommodation of your choice
Deeply nourishing meals and snacks from our soil-to-gut menu
‘Connecting with Ourselves as Nature’ guided meditation practice
Land, Food & Medicine guided foraging walk
Winter Medicine Making – create your own mini folk apothecary to take home
Fireside chat with special guests Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo, Founder of Land, Food, Medicine and 42 Acres Land Healer, Brid Walsh.
Restorative yoga
Guided Beaver Walk
Wild swimming in our 11-acre lake
Woodland, woodfired sauna
Powered 100% by renewable energy

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About the hosts

Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo

Tasha is a mixed race English, Central American woman with a Buddhist Spiritual practice. She is the Founder of Land, Food, Medicine and has been the visionary of many projects. Tasha is a true creative force working with community, wild food, wild tending, food production and farming to address some of the core issues of our time.

Tasha’s work is rooted in continuous learning and intuitive feeling, to explore and continuously develop methodologies and product development, creating food systems that work in harmony with nature through developing agri-wilding landscapes and products that draw on ancient or indigenous understandings of land,food and medicine coupled with new technologies or capabilities.

“Our medicine grows under our feet and below our noses, we just have to choose to see it.” Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo

Brid Walsh

Bríd Walsh grew up in rural Ireland, in West Cork, Ireland. She was immersed in traditions of language, culture and deep connections to land and environment – listening to the rhythms of the land. She is the third generation in her family to carry close communication with land and trees.

Bríd has worked to remove blockages to the flow of energy in land, property, and also when working with individuals on their personal journey. Her connections have supported the removal of trauma from landscapes and also using this supportive dialogue with nature forms part of decision making when it comes to next steps for properties/land.

42 Acres

42 Acres is a regenerative estate, nature reserve, and wellbeing retreat centre with the vision to live in harmony with nature, self, and others. We use our deepest intuition, ancient tools, and shared knowledge to establish regenerative spaces, curate transformational experiences, and foster opportunities to learn, heal, and grow.

We are exploring ways to take care of, and live in conversation with our sacred world. You are welcome to explore 173 acres of wild spaces – ancient woodland, rewilded meadows, an 11-acre lake, and our pioneering nature restoration projects.

Wild Weekend – Wintering Well

About the hosts

Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo

Brid Walsh

42 Acres