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08/02/2026

🐝 What do you see in the first two photos? 🐝
A worker bee making wax from her own body
And this is where everything begins…
Young worker bees (usually around 12–18 days old) produce tiny wax scales from special glands on their abdomen. They use this wax to build fresh honeycomb — perfect little hexagons for storing honey, pollen , bee bread and for raising baby bees 🐣
Bees actually prefer older comb - it’s stronger, smells like home and feels safe.
But… not too old.
When frames become very old and dark, it’s time to remove them and give the hive a refresh
And that’s when our journey starts.
Those old frames, which you’ve seen in our other posts, are carefully processed by our Flexi-Schoolers -melted, filtered and cleaned -until they become beautiful, pure beeswax

From one tiny bee making wax with her body…
to candles made by children’s hands ❤️

And we must say — all our candles have been a huge success!
This is real learning.
This is respect for bees.

06/02/2026

Back in January last year, our Flexi-Schoolers had chance to take on a serious challenge…
working with real beeswax 😄
Now, let us be clear — this is not the cute, clean wax you buy in little blocks.
This was proper, old beeswax, straight from the hive, which first had to be removed from the frames and then cooked in a big pan with a little water.
Why water?
Because this magical process helps separate all the things bees kindly leave behind…
leftover honey
tiny bee body parts
dirt, propolis and hive bits

In other words : a very authentic “wax soup” 😅

Of course, this wasn’t just play — we carefully risk-assessed working with fire and hot wax, talked about safety, responsibility, and respect for real tools and real materials.
After hours of melting, watching, stirring and waiting, we filtered our wax soup and poured it into a big bucket… then came the hardest part for children (and adults!):
waiting for it to cool.
And just when everyone thought we were done… surprise!
Once the wax cooled and formed a beautiful golden ring on top, we had to clean the bottom again 😄
More scraping, more patience, more teamwork.
And finally…
- beautiful, clean beeswax
Ready to be used for: candles, medicines
and future magical projects
This is what learning looks like in our forest:
messy, meaningful, slightly smelly, very real — and absolutely unforgettable 🐝🌲

Well done, Flexi-Schoolers. You truly earned your wax! 💪💛

06/02/2026

28/01/2026

Our wonderful Flexi-School children stepped into the world of traditional wisdom and natural living by making their very own apple cider vinegar from scratch.
This is such an important life skill to learn because apple cider vinegar isn’t just for cooking.
It’s something our grandparents used for:
natural cleaning
everyday health
healing and prevention

And the beauty of it?
It’s simple, natural and made with love.

All we needed were:
🍎 Fresh apples with the skin on
💧 Clean non-fluoridated water
🍬 A little sugar to start the natural fermentation ( 4 spoons to 1 litre of water to feed bacteria’s;)
We are incredibly lucky to have our own “Mother Vinegar”, so the boys could use her special power to begin the process — real nature science happening right in our forest school!
From this one magical start, the children now know how to create many different healing vinegars such as:
🌿 comfrey vinegar for skin and muscles
🍓 raspberry vinegar full of vitamins
🌹 rose vinegar for beauty and wellbeing
🌿 sage (salvia) vinegar for immunity
☕ even coffee bean vinegar!
This is what learning looks like at Evergreen Forest School —
hands on, meaningful, connected to nature and real life
So proud of our Flexi-Schoolers for their curiosity, teamwork and amazing work today!

05/12/2025

Flexi-schoolers

08/11/2025

07/11/2025

Believe it or not… they did it!
Our Everlearning Forest Flexi Schoolers made their first nail-free, homemade swing today!
They learned two proper knots and worked together with real focus and teamwork. This wasn’t a pretend task — they built a real swing that you can actually use. I am so proud of them.

Afterwards, they tidied everything (many branches!), and then we moved to the next projects…
We also went to check our dam that the children made two weeks ago (still holding nicely!)— no fish or beavers yet 😉 , but frogs have moved in!
We rested with ice cream under our old oak tree, and started planning our new building project — a new house for our guinea pigs.
Lunch, laughter, serious talk about contract ,rules and consequences and ten minutes play in Forest as that was all left time but we use that 10 minutes play well good and:
Next week… skulls and bones 🫣😀
Real nature learning. Real skills. Real joy. 🌿💚

17/10/2025

Not all classrooms need four walls ..

17/10/2025

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Last week our forest explorers are learning the whole journey of beeswax – from the honeycomb frame straight from our hives 🐝, to melting, cleaning, and finally creating their own natural calendula wax cream! 🌼

17/10/2025

🍎 Family Food Tasting at Evergreen Forest Nursery 🍯
We warmly invite all parents to join us on Thursday , 30th October at 3:00 PM for a free Family Food Tasting Session at Evergreen Forest Nursery.

We all know that a balanced diet is the key to good health — and the foundation of children’s happy development.
Come and enjoy a tasty hour filled with fresh flavours, inspiration, and great company!

🌿 This event is free, but we have only 25 spaces available — please let us know if you’d like to join us!

03/10/2025

Best apple cake made by children hands 🍇👏

Ingredients:
• 3 glasses of flour
• ½ glass of sugar
• 1 butter (softened)
• 5 egg yolks (careful when cracking the eggs!)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons double cream (if dough feels too dry)
• 2 kg apples
• Cinnamon (to taste)

How to make it (together!):
1. Little bakers: Crack the eggs gently, take only the yolks.
2. Mixers: With two hands, mix flour, sugar, butter, yolks, and baking powder. If dough is too dry, add the cream.
3. Apple team: Peel at least 2 kg of apples, grate them, and cook in a pan with cinnamon until soft.
4. Spread more than half of the dough on the bottom of a baking tray.
5. Add the soft, warm apples on top.
6. Shred the rest of the dough over the apples like crumbs.
7. Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 1 hour.

✨ Easy, tasty, and full of love!