Our education days are currently on pause until July 1st 2025. We have our Sacred Earth Gathering, event in June and the project is all systems go for growing our food and setting it up!
We believe children deserve the best start in life. We want to provide opportunites to learn how to live sustainably and resourcefully within community.
Educate. Empower. Grow - The heart of the Crops Not Shops mission and we feel that it starts with The Family.
How do we prepare our children for the ever-changing, fragmented world that we find ourselves in? This is our focus. To learn from our ancestors of old, from our children and from Nature herself. We get as close as we can to the land because we know that she has the medicine the toxic parts of our world needs right now. ‘Our children are not our children, they are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself’ We know that education is not a one way stream. We have much to learn from them.
‘They come through us but are not from us’ ;It is OUR job to hold and guide them in their journey; ‘You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth’; we remember that their purpose is theirs and we give space for their true selves to emerge.
What we offer?
We can offer educational events focused on empowering families and individuals through topics like nutrition, well-being, being with community, also sporadic "Feed the Family Day's" promoting harvesting, cooking, and eating together while learning about nutrition and sustainable farming.
Spring 2025
We have an exciting partnership with Skool Beanz!
We are developing a Children's Garden area which will have a lot of scope, for not only diggers but creative types, to develop and decorate a gorgeous area for the children, by the children. Seeing this garden start from empty polytunnels and stacks of wood, to a haven of beauty and biodiversity will light any child up, ESPECIALLY because it's THEIRS, created for them by them <3
TUESDAYS - 10-2
Skool Beanz CIC in Devon are very blessed to have the knowledge and time of their founder Lara leading the way with the design plans and know how! Lara's story to what birthed Skool Beanz into existence is inspiring and we can't wait to see our partnership grows this season (sorry about the pun ha!)
Skool Beanz attention is focused mainly on the children's area with all things growing and for those that are less green fingered, but happy to be in nature - there are also lots of opportunities to paint, design and build or just chill, it's all s-kool with us (
THURSDAYS - 10ish-2ish
This session is child led, we hope that we can organically grow our method of passion led learning, but know that in order for these ideals to grow we need to take time 'playing' and being in a community environment. We envision this to be child led with an emphasis on play-based and self-directed learning, fostering intrinsic motivation and lifelong curiosity.
Whilst on the land we will offer several activities including planting, working on the children's area, herbal medicines, cooking, helping with fermenting, foraging, wellbeing, free play area, but also very much be guided by the children and adults present allowing them to shape how the day will go. We follow a natural flow, but like to start and end the day, together.
Once we have established connection with the children we have hopes to organically implement a passion led learning approach; it will take time to develop naturally as children gradually understand the concept of community and blossom with the connection. We are very keen for families to integrate themselves into community on the land and encourage caregivers to take part with the curiosity of a child too.
We can't wait to model community values to the children and help them grow in confidence and boost their knowledge in growing their own food and living off grid, with lots of fun to boot!
