Bring your children on a fun and fascinating stroll through ancient and modern history. We will explore how people lived thousands of years ago as we walk through the ruins of Bronze Age settlements and ceremonial complexes including a stone circle, rows, and a standing stone. Then we will sit together in the ruins of their homes to make a replica clay pinch pot like our Neolithic ancestors may have done or a simple woven bracelet made from Dartmoor sheep wool.

This stunning walk back again for this year’s 'Something Wild Trail Running Festival' 2019 following the 10K runners route, after all the runners have left. So if you have a spouse or friend doing the race why not join this walk!

Feel your senses come alive and daily stresses melt away as we walk from the beautiful Bala Brook Retreat Centre to Ryders Rings. This is one of the largest Bronze Age villages with a double pound containing 34 ruined hut circles with stunning views all around. In conjunction with international trainer and storyteller Steph Bradley, this walk is offered as part of a week-long immersive course exploring well being and eco tourism in Devon.

Join Dartmoor's Daughter's for a stunning walk and wild swim near the stunning range of Belstone tors. We’ll walk below the tors; pause a moment at a Bronze Age cairn circle with legend of dancing maidens; wonder about the real story behind Irishman’s wall; and swim in a beautiful river pool.

Join us for a great family day out at the Dartmoor National Park Summer Fair on Saturday 27th July. Visit the Dartmoor’s Daughter stand to explore interesting Dartmoor finds and foods. And join me, Emma Cunis of Dartmoor’s Daughter, for a short walk 2-3pm to explore the beauty of the local area and some seasonal wild foods.

Join Dartmoor’s Daughter for a short stroll to a beautiful river swimming spot. You can swim, picnic on the banks of the river, play human ‘Pooh Sticks’, and enjoy the beautiful views. Children must be good swimmers or have arm bands and be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Dartmoor is a stunning natural environment and our intention will be to 'leave no trace' please.

Walk with us through an ancient, ritual landscape on Dartmoor, through the eight stone circles on North East Dartmoor that form an approximate arc.

Join Dartmoor's Daughter and Storyteller Lisa Schneidau on a magical walk to discover the rich and diverse tales of British woodlands. From heroes and heroines to faeries, woodwose and tree spirits, this is a unique opportunity to spend time exploring the folklore and nature of Dartmoor’s wild places.

Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation. 

'We don't need to reconnect to nature, we are nature.' Discover wholeness and health as Brigit Anna McNeil and Dartmoor's Daughter lead you on a journey into the moor and the woods along the river to explore Spring's edible offerings.

You will learn how to identify edible seasonal plants and leaves, seeds, flowers, and roots. And understand how to prepare them for cooking and eating or for potent medicines to nourish, strengthen or cleanse. We will make something simple as a taster together or share a wild tea. This will be determined by what we find on the day.

Join us for a gentle walk combined with periods of sitting, silence, and writing amidst an extraodinary landscape of magnificent granite tors, rock basins, wild ponies, and ruinous Bronze and Iron Age settlements. Invitations, provocations, and prompts will be offered to stimulate your creativity. Poems, stories, songs, or just a single sentence or two are welcome - there's no judgement and no pressure to perform or share if you don't feel moved to. This is a simple exploration of land, living, and being.

Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation. Afterwards, we will drive just a few minutes down the hill for drinks and lunch together at The Tavistock Inn, one of England’s oldest pubs with a devilish tale to tell!

Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on and practical workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation. 

Share in the joy of finding and eating wild foods. This foray around Steward Wood will open the world of edible spring plants to those who wish to discover and share knowledge. Along the way, you will sample yummy wild goodies, and be introduced to recommended guidebooks and websites.

Join Dartmoor's Daughter in a unique opportunity to experience first hand how a Dartmoor farm is managed to balance wildlife, nature, archaeology, and public enjoyment along with some food production. 'Mark & Naomi are farmers with a passion for conservation' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hugh's Wild West, BBC TV)

Inspired by 'Walking Dartmoor's Ancient Tracks' by Eric Hemery (Emma Cunis' grandfather), Sam Goodwin has been single-handedly training ponies to carry packs. Giving people the opportunity to step literally into the past and experience Dartmoor and its distinctive breed in a unique and authentic way.

As well as living on the earth's surface, dragons also live deep down below us. Ancient energy pathways snake their way around the world - 'Serpent Lines' in Britain; 'Songlines' in Australia; 'Invisible Black Thread Laid Down by the Earth Mother' in the Sierra Nevada; and 'Dragon Lines' in China. An expert from 'Devon Dowsers' will teach you how to dowse with metal rods and pendulums to see if we can find water, archaeology, and earth energy/serpent lines. 

A fun and interesting way of connecting children to the beautiful Dartmoor landscape. Families will be invited to team up into ‘wolf packs’ so you can help each other to search and tick off a picture list of several different types of animals, plants, trees, and flowers as well as objects in the landscape. Plus there are rocks to climb, a granite tramline to follow, pond-filled quarry to explore, and several letterboxes/geocaching to find.

Stories about the stars can be found throughout history and all over the world including in Greek mythology; by the Aborigines in Australia; the Tupi people in Brazil; and the 'star people' or Lakota in North America who say they brought spiritual teachings, stories and maps of the cosmos which they then offered freely. Dartmoor's Daughter will lead us on a gentle walk up to Hound Tor and introduce the Dartmoor context followed by Dartmoor Skies who will guide you through the visible constellations and set up telescopes so you can explore the night sky at your leisure.

Join us for a short walk from dark to dawn through the extraordinary soundscape of the waking chorus of birds. Yarner Woods is a bird haven so we hope to hear, and possibly see redstart, pied flycatcher, wood warbler, blackbird, song thrush, mistle thrush, great spotted woodpecker, raven, jay, blackcap, and many many more. If we are lucky, we may even here the pre-dawn churring of nightjar.

Join Dartmoor’s Daughter, the Pi Society and like-minded singles for a stunning morning's walk up and along the magnificent ridge of tors (Bonehill, Bel, Chinkwell, and Honeybags) and the ancient Saxon road above Widecombe, followed by lunch together at The Old Inn.

Learn map and compass skills in a hands-on, practical afternoon workshop. Build confidence to explore new places and walk off the beaten track. We will also discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape e.g.: natural navigation. And walk a little at dimpsey (dusk) for extra practice.

North East Dartmoor is a rich archaeological landscape. We will explore the Shoveldown Bronze Age ritual complex including several stone rows, 4-fold cairn circle, standing stone, and possible stone circle. We will debate why the granite ‘cow bridge’ doesn’t appear to go anywhere, and what the meaning might be of a mystery inscription on Kestor nearby the largest rock basin on Dartmoor.

Join us to discover the hidden gems of Dartmoor. You will walk ancient tracks; be regaled with stories by local people of local people and history; and be driven between destinations in a luxury or vintage Landrover. Tich Scott is a 14th generation Dartmoor farmer who runs 'Proper Dartmoor Tours'.

Join Dartmoor’s Daughter, the Pi Society and like-minded singles for a stunning walk along part of the disused Princetown railway and old Tavistock-Ashburton Packhorse Track through Foggintor Quarry to the Merrivale stone rows. Our walk will end with a well deserved lunch and drink at the Plume of Feathers in Princetown.

Join us on a voyage through the solar system. Blending puppeteering with animation and shadow puppetry, this is a family-friendly event and we encourage you to ask lots of space-themed questions. Once our voyage is over, we'll head out onto Dartmoor for a short walk to watch one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. Telescopes and other stargazing equipment will be on hand. 

Join us for a guided walk and talk to visit Drizzlecombe – the best preserved and most impressive of all Dartmoor’s prehistoric ceremonial sites. Dartmoor’s Daughter is collaborating with archaeologist Jane Marchand, the recently retired Head of Archaeology for the Dartmoor National Park Authority for this walk.