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Home education Practical farm learning Shaped with families

Learn on a Living Farm

Practical, seasonal learning on the farm for home-educated children and families: food growing, soil, nature, simple cooking, land skills, and confidence outdoors.

Tell us you’re interested See what we are planning
We are preparing the next farm sessions. Published dates and booking information will appear here when ready.
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Learning together
Help shape the home education offer before it launches.
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Talk through ages, needs, timings, and group size.
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Share the practical skills your family would value most.
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Help us build something useful, calm, and realistic.
Booking a place helps us plan numbers, seating, and refreshments.
Celtic Roots Explorers home education programme, with children learning together in a garden through hands-on learning, nature connection, teamwork and regenerative growing.
Food and nature education

Working with Food Vale and Vale of Glamorgan Council in 2026

This gives families confidence that the programme is being shaped with local food, nature, and community education partners, not built in isolation.

Starting point

We want to shape this with families first

Celtic Roots is developing practical home education on the farm. Family conversations help us shape activities that work for different ages and needs.

The aim is to understand ages, learning needs, timings, group size, practical interests, and what would make the programme genuinely useful for home-educating families.

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Food and growing

Seed sowing, harvesting, seasonal crops, simple cooking, and where food comes from.

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Soil and nature

Soil life, composting, wildlife habitats, observation, weather, and farm ecology.

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Practical confidence

Hands-on projects, teamwork, tool safety, problem solving, and outdoor independence.

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Flexible learning

A calm structure that can work for mixed ages, different confidence levels, and real family needs.

Family conversations

Help shape our next farm sessions

Tell us what your child needs, what would work for your week, and what questions you would like answered about farm-based learning.

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Free places
Booking helps us plan numbers and refreshments.
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Parents shape the offer
Ages, timings, support needs, and course ideas.
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The next programme
The discussion feeds directly into the first courses.
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Roundtable dates are being confirmed

We are preparing the next sessions. Share your interest and the questions that matter to your family.

After sending, you will see a confirmation here and Celtic Roots will receive it in admin.
What we will discuss

Clear questions, useful answers

Family conversations help make sure the offer works for real families, not just on paper.

Best days, timings, age groups, and family availability.
How structured the sessions should be, and how flexible they need to feel.
Course themes: growing, food, wildlife, soil, cooking, crafts, and land-based skills.
Practical needs: access, weather, siblings, refreshments, toilets, and support.
Home education questions

Home education at Celtic Roots

When do the home education courses start?
Confirmed session dates and booking details are published on this page when ready.
What will children learn on the farm?
Sessions are being shaped around food growing, soil, wildlife, seasonal skills, simple cooking, practical confidence, and outdoor learning.
Who are the family discussions for?
Home-educating families who want to ask questions, discuss timings and ages, and help shape useful farm learning.
Where are the home education sessions?
Sessions are planned for Celtic Roots Farm & Gardens near Pendoylan in the Vale of Glamorgan, with practical outdoor learning on the land.