Locations: Maidstone

There are around 250 species of solitary bee. Find out how to identify them and where to find them, and learn about their ecology.

• Study Day
• Bees
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Investigate rocks and minerals and learn about fossils and plate tectonics

• Study Day
• Geology
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Join us for Forest School for the home education community. Discover ways to have fun outdoors and meet new friends. Suitable for ages 4-11.

• Forest School
• Families
• Family Activity
• Home education forest school

Nature Tots is Forest School tailored specifically for little ones, and can inspire a love of nature that lasts a lifetime.

• Nature Tots
• Families
• Family Activity
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Nature Tots is Forest School tailored specifically for little ones, and can inspire a love of nature that lasts a lifetime.

• Nature Tots
• Families
• Family Activity
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Did you know that there are over 150 species of native grasses in Britain? Come along and learn how to identify some of the most common species.

• Study Day
• Botany
• Grass
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Join your Talk on the Wild Side host, Rob Smith, for a journey through Marden's farms and gardens - where farmers, scientists, and keen birders are working together to make space for the rare turtle fove.

• Farming
• Habitat Management
• Regenerative Farming
• Species
• Turtle doves

Learn more about the sedges and rushes - plant species which are found in many of our wilder, unimproved habitats but are often unfairly dismissed or overlooked.

• Study Day
• Botany
• Holborough Marshes
• Hothfield Heathland
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Learn to identify trees and shrubs by their leaves and flowers

• Study Day
• Spring
• Trees
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres

Make a start on identifying these notoriously difficult yet intriguing, beautiful and environmentally sensitive plants.

• Study Day
• Hothfield Heathland
• Lichens and mosses
• Tyland Barn
• Visitor Centres