Rootstock Forest Festival is a gathering of Go Wild Outsiders and a celebration of forest school. A chance for you to visit the beautiful Wye Valley and meet with other students, share skills and have fun.

What’s it all about?

This is a sharing of experiences and skills that is formed by you! We’ll have workshops and activities running during the day, storytelling, acoustic music, TentTalks (geddit?!?) in the evening. If you can imagine it, we’d like to hear about it!

Workshops are run by you, my lovely students, and are a combination of all the weird and wonderful skills you’ve learned over the years.

Plus, there is a real sense of community that only comes from sitting around a campfire with like-minded people.

Who can come? Anyone who has taken a Go Wild Level 3 forest school course.

Based on feedback from previous years, we’re keeping it to students only. A chance for you to have a proper break and indulge in forest school play!

When? 26 - 28th September 2025

Where? Wye Valley Woodside, GL15 6RR.

Surrounded on three sides by ancient woodland, this eight-acre site lies high up the side of the Wye Valley, opposite the picturesque Welsh village of Llandogo. Its remote location offers peace and tranquillity and the chance to truly get close to nature. The ever-changing colours and mystery of the surrounding ancient woodlands and the magnificent vistas across the Wye valley give a true feeling of seclusion and remoteness from the bustle and noise of modern life.

Past workshops include:

  • Net bag making

  • Ceremony and ritual in forest school

  • Wild balm making

  • Fungi foray

  • Advanced firelighting

  • Tibetan sound healing

  • Wheel of the Year

  • Outdoor yoga

  • Stick balancing

  • Advanced tarp shelters

  • Inclusion at forest school

  • Exploring woodland sounds

  • Birdsong

  • Woodland wellbeing and mindfulness

  • Natural dyes

  • Wild singing… plus lots more!

How much: £75 for the whole weekend including camping

You can camp in a tent or bring a (small) campervan. There are toilets and showers available to use.

Please bring your own cooking equipment such as a camping stove. The site doesn’t allow for individual fires but there will be a communal fire to sit around and we will cook a communal meal (One-Pot-Wonder) on Satruday night.

Arrival for weekend tickets is from 5pm on Friday and we will finish around 4pm on Sunday.