Team Christmas - 42 Acres

Across cultures, winter is a season for slowing, for taking stock of what has been learned, and trusting the unseen work that is happening beneath the surface in earthy roots and in our own hearts.

Just as seeds lie in the dark soil, dreaming of what they are becoming, so we also gather closer together, tend the relationships that will carry us into what comes next, and usher in the futures we dream of.

Nature doesn’t hurry this work. Our Winter Gatherings offer space to lean into the quieter rhythms of the land. Around the fire. Around a shared table. Walk through woodland that has offered sanctuary for over 13 centuries. Make something of the land with your hands. Give something back to the landscape that has hosted you. Our intention is for these to be felt not as activities, but as ways of revealing the treasu more meaningful connections – with the self, with each other and with the Earth.

Wild Place

Everything at 42 Acres begins with the land. Across 173 acres, we are restoring ecosystems through rewilding, regenerative food growing and reciprocal stewardship. This can be felt viscerally by all who visit.

Gather around the fire, beneath the canopy in the oak forest glade. Your welcome drink of mulled apple juice warms the body slowly and lands you right here – these apples were grown just a few steps away. The orchard is bare and resting now, yet beneath the soil, life is remembering itself. Winter reminds us that not all growth is visible, and that every season has its work.

For millennia, people have gathered in circles around fire. It’s how our ancestors built community and honoured transitions. As a quiet sense of belonging emerges, we can guide a ceremonial experience that invites presence, reflection and connection, or simply hold the space for your team to create its own. Many organisations tell us they leave having had conversations they simply couldn’t have had around a boardroom table.

Christmas Menus

Wild Food

Come inside. All our spaces are consciously restored using natural, sustainable materials. Here you’ll find a local Christmas tree – a small, borrowed forest and rooms warm with candlelight and real fires.

We’ll start with a spruce cordial honourably harvested right here. In the depths of winter, when much of the landscape lies dormant, spruce remains vibrant and green. This drink is winter medicine, spruce needles are rich in Vitamin C all through winter when local sources are scarce. As such, it is a way to connect with the present season…and yet it also tastes citrusy and clean – like drinking the memory of sunshine!

Next, our Wild Christmas Menu, served family style at a long, shared table for deepening connection. The food you eat here is a final expression of our land, lovingly tended and created by our land and food teams and designed to offer connection with the land and each other.

Much is organically homegrown in our permaculture garden or wild-foraged on our land. It is nutrient-dense and deeply nourishing. We recognise that as we cultivate and restore wellbeing of our soils and our planet, we cultivate and restore wellbeing within ourselves and the entire web of life.

Plus, there’s Somerset tiramisu!

Land & Food

Wild Experiences

One that builds reciprocal connections between people, place, culture

rewilded landscape acts as silent facilitator, teaching us what to notice, how fast to move, whether to linger, connect, or simply pass through. how a place makes us feel, what it helps us notice, and the sense of belonging we feel while there
Treasure driven by the pursuit of collective and planetary wellbeing

At the heart of your experience is a unique Wild Christmas private dining experience. Our Food Philosophy aims to build bridges between personal and planetary health. Gather around a long table to share a meal crafted by our expert retreat chefs featuring ingredients organically-grown and wild-foraged on this land, and designed to bring a touch of wild wonder to your gathering.

Festive Experiences

Wild Experiences

Whether it is giving your energy in support of nature, or getting creative with foraged wreath crafting, your team will leave feeling both connected and festive.

Wild Crafting

Try your hand at wild crafting your own festive wreath to take home, or flower crown to wear to your private dining experience.

We’ll provide beautiful, natural materials foraged from this land. And, we’ll help you express your own style in this creative, mindful session.

Create a unique, seasonal piece and take a bit of 42 Acres home with you!

Guided Rewilding Walk

A guided walk into the heart of our pioneering rewilding projects. We’ve created a mosaic of diverse habitats, and have seen the return of several once-thought-extinct species to this region, including beavers, wild boar, and pine martens.

We’re also working to bring lost species back to our landscape. Currently, we are focused on White Storks and Wild Cats. We’ll visit both and explore the vital role they play in recreating complete ecosystems.

Giving Back to The Earth

Give your team the gift of giving back to the Earth. An invitation to work together in a new way and to leave a group legacy in the living landscape here at 42 Acres. Your session might involve planting native trees, or other practical acts of care for the land.

As we rewild this land, we discover that we are also rewilding ourselves. By joining us, your team will directly contribute your energy to support nature, whilst also cultivating a deeper sense of belonging both with each other and to the natural world.

“Huge congratulations on your amazing, amazing Christmas offering. We had an brilliant time! I’m so grateful from the bottom of my heart. The 42 Acres team were so kind and welcoming the whole way through! The food was even more stunning than usual! I felt our group was held by angels!

Tasha, Founder, LandFoodMedicine.com

Pricing & Packages

Mistletoe

Non Residential

£85 per person

10am: Arrive and land at 42 with a hosted opening circle in the oak forest glade, and a welcome drink of organic mulled apple juice, or home made spruce cordial – both grown on the land you’re walking.

11am: Reconnect with nature and each other with your choice of our 42 Acres Experience.

1pm: Gather around our long, living-edge table in The Hermitage to enjoy Wild Christmas Lunch, 42 Acres-style!

3pm: Depart

Holly

1 night, 1 day

£350 pp single occupancy

£300 pp sharing

Everything from our ‘Mistletoe’ package plus an overnight stay in quietly luxurious accommodation powered 100% by renewable energy.

4pm: Arrive for your opening circle and welcome drink

6pm: Wild Christmas Dinner

9am: Wake up to a beautiful breakfast followed by a 42 Acres Experience for your whole team.

11am: Depart

Spruce

1 night, 2 days

£415 pp single occupancy

£365 pp sharing

10am: Opening circle

1pm: Soil-to-gut lunch

3pm: 42 Acres Experience

6pm: Wild Christmas Dinner

1 nights accommodation

9am: Soil-to gut breakfast

10am: 42 Acres Experience

1pm: Soil-to-gut lunch

2pm: Depart

Min 11 people (single occupancy). Max 41 people (with sharing). Prices are ex VAT.
You’re welcome to mindfully enjoy your own alcoholic drinks. A corkage fee applies to cover glassware and recycling.

We invite you to approach your end of year gathering from a different perspective. Our Wild Christmas Packages offer:

An enchanting nature escape, with rewilded landscapes as your backdrop
Gather around the fire in our oak forest glade – an elemental ritual as old as time
Savour a climate-conscious wild Christmas meal served family-style to spark connection
Make yourselves at home in our consciously-converted spaces, designed for reflection and celebration
Enrich your gathering with nature-based experiences designed to foster deepening connection

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