This is our living space for shared stories, publications and reflections from our work and wider community. It gathers the pieces that show how learning moves through land, people and more than human worlds. The archive holds our slow publications, reports, creative documentation and other shared insights.
How we work with knowledge
At Field Notes, knowledge grows like mycelium. It spreads quietly through relationships, conversations and creative practice. It connects people, places and more than human beings, forming networks of learning that support rural belonging and new narratives about land.
We understand knowledge as something communal and alive. It moves between bodies and landscapes like threads beneath the soil, linking experiences and stories. Our role is to create spaces where this learning can be shared, shaped and carried forward.
Spore practice
During an LGBTQ+ outdoor workshop, a movement score was misheard as “spore,” opening a new way of thinking about how we come into relationship with place. Like spores waiting for the right conditions to grow, we began sharing small starting points of connection with the life already present in the landscape.
These shared spores became moments of watching, listening and moving with the land. They invited us to be touched by the world and to learn from more than human beings. This practice now sits within our wider approach to community knowledge making, reminding us that learning often begins with something small, quiet and relational.
How we share knowledge
Consultations and conversations
Gentle, reflective sessions for organisations and community groups exploring care, land based thinking and inclusive practice.
Training and workshops
Learning shaped by land based practice, queer ecology, governance work and river guardianship.
Slow publishing
Tactile publications, maps and reflections that act like mycelial nodes, carrying learning between projects and communities.
Community archives
Supporting communities to build their own archives of rural experience, strengthening connections between people and place.
Knowledge that returns to the land
Learning becomes action through river guardianship, sacred sites stewardship, forest school practice and seasonal gatherings.
Why mycelium
Mycelium helps us imagine knowledge as relational, decentralised, adaptive and rooted in land. It shows us that learning spreads, connects and nourishes. It reminds us that community knowledge is always growing.