Team Christmas - 42 Acres

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

Christmas and New Year look a little different at 42 Acres. A moment in the year to gather your team closer, reflect on the year that has been, intentionally look ahead to the next, and create space for more meaningful connections.

Wild Place

Everything at 42 Acres begins with nature. Across 173 acres, we are restoring ecosystems. In exploring how we can heal the land, we find that we are simultaneously rewilding our own selves. This can be felt viscerally by all who visit – the landscape acting as a silent facilitator.

Gather your team around the fire, around a shared table, in anicent woodland that hasoffered sanctuary for 13 centuries. Let nature create the conditions for deeper connection and new possibilities to emerge.

Make something of the land with your hands, or build a living legacy in the landscape that will endure long after you leave.

Our Land & Food Philosophy

Wild Experiences

Gather around the fire, beneath the canopy in the oak forest glade. A welcome drink of mulled apple juice warms the body slowly and lands you right here – these apples were grown just a few steps away.

For millennia, people have gathered in circles around fire. This is how our ancestors built community and honoured transitions.

As we guide a ceremonial experience inviting presence and connection, or give space for your team to host, a quiet sense of belonging emerges.

Many teams tell us they experience a deeper connection than ever before.

Winter Team Experiences

Wild Food

Come inside. A local Christmas tree acts as a small, borrowed forest. Rooms are warm with candlelight and real fires.

We start with spruce cordial, honourably-harvested right here. In the depths of winter, when much of the landscape lies dormant, spruce is winter medicine – like drinking the memory of sunshine!

Next, our Wild Winter Menu, served family style at a long, shared table for deepening connection.

This food is a final expression of our land, and invites connection with this time, this place, and each other.

Wild Winter Menu

Wild Experiences

Included in your package, we invite you to choose one of the below experiences. Whether its directly contributing your energy in reciprocity with nature, or expressing your creativity with wild crafting, these experiences cultivate a deeper sense of belonging both with each other and to the natural world.

Wildlife Corridor Creation

Work as a team to create a new hedgerow to provide food and sanctuary for diverse species. Your wildlife corridor will help connect habitats in the hope of extending the range of hazel dormice, and other species threatened with extinction.

By planting a diverse mix of native plants, you’ll also contribute to both environmental resilience and local food security.

Your team’s contribution will become part of the story of the land here. We’ll acknowledge your team whenever we share this story, so the legacy of your time here continues to grow along with the hedgerow.

Outdoors, Physical Effort

Winter Wild Crafting

Try your hand at wild crafting by a roaring fire. Create a festive wreath to take home, or a winter nature crown to wear to your private dining experience.

We’ll provide beautiful winter materials foraged from the land, and guide you in creating something entirely your own. Work with nature, express your style, and see what emerges.

Crown yourselves for dinner in your wild creation – some turn out beautiful, some quite… ‘unexpected’, all uniquely yours. Or make a festive wreath and take a little piece of 42 Acres home with you.

Indoors, Light Effort

Future Orchard Grafting

Learn the ancient skill of grafting as your team creates a fledgling apple orchard. Take cuttings from our existing apple trees and graft them onto rootstock, creating dozens of young fruit trees.

This hands-on experience builds practical skills, encourages collaboration, and connects to food resilience. These trees will continue to grow, creating a living legacy for your team.

Your team’s contribution will become part of the orchard’s story. You’re welcome to return to plant out your trees, watch them mature and, eventually, picnic beneath their boughs.

Indoors & Outdoors, Moderate Effort.

“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

£95 per person

10am: Land at 42 with a fireside (hosted) opening circle in the oak forest glade, and a welcome drink of organic mulled apple juice from the land.

11am: Reconnect with nature and each other with your choice of our Winter Team Experiences.

1pm: Gather around a long, shared table to enjoy Wild Winter Lunch, 42 Acres-style!

3pm: Depart

Holly

1 night, 1 day

£365 pp single occupancy

£300 pp sharing

12 noon: Land at 42 with a fireside (hosted) opening circle in the oak forest glade, and a welcome drink of organic mulled apple juice from the land.

1pm: Come inside for a soil-to-Gut lunch

2pm: Reconnect with nature and each other with your choice of our Winter Team Experiences.

4pm: Free time to rest and reflect. Or, group room provided for your team activity.

6pm: Gather around a long, shared table to enjoy Wild Winter Dinner, 42 Acres-style!

9am: Wake up to a beautiful breakfast.

11am: Depart

Min 11 people (single occupancy).

Max 41 people (with sharing).

Prices are ex VAT.

Experiences are designed for the whole team, creating a shared experience & supporting connection, so please choose one.
We’re happy to work with you to make adjustments to help everyone take part.
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 winter team gathering from a different perspective. Our Winter Team 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 winter 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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