Seed Scholars.
Root Down, Branch Out.
Mission.
Seed Scholars is a nature-based experiential eco-education initiative that seeks to re-root young people and their networks in relationships of curiosity and care with the outdoor environment.
Seed Scholars seeks to integrate interdisciplinary, responsive nature-based learning as an art and a science. Through the core primary schools programme, teacher training courses, family workshops, event engagements, after school experiences, and greenspace design consultations, Seed Scholars' work hopes to spark and support ongoing nature connection.
people. plants. play.
Have a look at Seed Scholars’ core primary schools programme in action for some insights about the experience.
Film by Hannah Bloom Studios
Vision.
Through our outdoor nature-based learning programmes, we support holistic wellbeing as community members tend to themselves, each other and the land where they live.
We hope to cultivate nature skills and awareness, collaboration, and creativity as well as a sense of awe stemming from engagement with the interconnected cycles of the seasons. Through facilitated grounding in regular attention to place and its wonders, we believe participants will feel intrinsically drawn and oriented towards stewardship, climate mitigation, and social justice action.
Meet Eliya.
Eliya is a garden and nature enthusiast from California, who now makes her home in Collinstown, Co. Westmeath. She has worked at the intersection of people and planet for many years as a Garden Biodiversity educator, Forest School facilitator, and primary school teacher. Eliya weaves skills and perspectives cultivated through her multidisciplinary background to creatively craft programming for participants that tends to the hands, head and heart.
Photo by Jonathan Stokes