Soil to Soul can be experienced as a one-day immersion or a weekend journey (read on for full information). Each experience stands fully on its own. The one-day immersion offers a complete experience within a single day, with the option to stay on the land, while the weekend journey includes staying on the land and allows a deeper experience to unfold over time.
“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver
Inspired by poet Mary Oliver’s instruction, Soil to Soul offers immersive, nourishing days on our dynamic, regenerative, organic farm alive with wildlife and daily farm activity.
These experiences support a deeper, more reciprocal relationship with the natural world — with land, soil, farming, animals, food, health, and the nature of your own soul.
Through slowing down, observing, and spending time in close relationship with the living landscape of the farm, you are invited to reconnect with the world as a community of beings and rediscover a sense of belonging within it.
“A joy from the moment I arrived to the moment I left.”
“Thank you for opening my eyes — it has changed my world forever, for the better.”
One-Day Immersion
Saturday 6th June | 9.30am – 6pm
Join us for a full, nourishing day on our working organic farm — a chance to slow down, reconnect, and remember your place within the living world.
This immersive experience gently guides you into a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the land, the animals we care for, food, farming and the more-than-human world. Through shared practices, quiet reflection, and sensory exploration, you’ll be supported to attune to nature’s rhythms — and your own.
You’ll leave feeling more grounded, inspired, and deeply connected, carrying fresh insight and wisdom back into everyday life.
“A gorgeous day out as well as a huge life lesson — a privilege and a joy to be here.”
What You’ll Experience
- Sensory practices to deepen connection with the living world
- Guided nature walks introducing plants, birds, butterflies, and bees
- Quiet pauses for journaling and reflection
- Time spent with farm animals in the fields
- Making simple food and medicine from plants harvested together
- Supported meditation, anchoring your connection to land and place
- A gentle introduction to intuitive communication
- Delicious food throughout the day — coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea – all grown, reared, foraged, and prepared by us
- Optional wild swim in our wildlife pond
Practical Details
- Date: Saturday 6th June
• Time: 9.30am – 6pm
• Cost: £90 per person (includes all food and materials)
• Ideal for: Anyone looking to slow down, reconnect, and deepen their relationship with nature
Stay the Night (Optional)
For a deeper, more immersive experience, you’re warmly invited to stay overnight. Our campsite is open exclusively for participants on the nights before and after the event.
- Pitch your own tent free of charge, or
- Hire one of our beautiful bell tents for £15 per person (please bring your own bedding)
- Book The Retreat Hut for £75 per night
Wake up surrounded by birdsong, land, and stillness — and let the experience settle fully.
Book your place: angelcottage@runbox.uk
Weekend Journey
Saturday 13th June, 9.30am – Sunday 14th June, 4pm
Our weekend Soil to Soul experience offers a more spacious journey into our relationship with the living world. You will have time to deepen your connection with land, plants, animals, and your own inner wisdom — exploring the rhythms of nature at a gentler, more expansive pace.
Through longer nature walks, meditative practices, and deep reflection, you are invited to open your awareness to the sensual world around you, the presence of other beings, and the subtle, intuitive knowledge that emerges when we slow down and listen.
“I feel enriched with the ingredients needed to live in our world at one with nature and in peace with myself.”
Weekend Highlights
- Longer, unhurried walks through the farm’s fields, orchards, and woodland to attune with plants, birds, insects, and the landscape
- Extended sensory and contemplative practices, with time for awareness to deepen
- Exploration of intuitive and inter-species communication as an ongoing practice
- Extended solo and reflective time for journaling and contemplation
- Time spent with farm animals in the fields
- Making food and medicine from plants harvested together
- Time to settle into the daily rhythms of the working farm
- Delicious food throughout the weekend — coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea both days, Saturday evening meal, and Sunday breakfast; all grown, reared, foraged, and prepared by us
- Optional wild swim in our wildlife pond
- Camping under the stars on our exclusive participant campsite
Practical Details
- Dates: Saturday 13th June, 9.30am – Sunday 14th June, 4pm
• Cost: £175 per person (includes all food, materials, and camping)
• Accommodation: Camping included on Saturday night (bring your own tent, hire a bell tent for £15 per person — please bring your own bedding – or book the Retreat Hut for £75)
• Optional extra night: Stay on Friday 12th for a full weekend retreat — no charge for your own tent, £15 per person for a bell tent, £75 for the Retreat Hut
• Ideal for: Anyone looking to take their relationship with nature even deeper
Book your place: angelcottage@runbox.uk
About Your Hosts
Soil to Soul is facilitated, led, and lovingly held by farmers and eco-therapists Tom Mettyear and Mark Sparrow, of Haddon Copse Farm, home of Angel Cottage Organics.
Haddon Copse Farm is both a working, productive farm — where the daily care of livestock and the health of the land are inseparable — and an immensely biodiverse landscape. The lives of poultry, cattle, sheep, and pigs entwine with barn owls, nightingales, orchids, fungi, and bees across pasture, orchards, and woodland — an intermingling of reciprocity and respect.
The farm is the culmination of a twenty-five year journey that began on the beaches of Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula. There, attuning to the seasonal and daily rhythms of the moon, stars, and tides, we began to reawaken deep childhood memories of nature walks, birdwatching, and rural life on the traditional farms of family and friends.
On returning to England, these threads wove together with our existing knowledge and experience of working with plants as medicine. Through running a natural health business, establishing a small organic farm, and training in eco-therapy, we deepened our understanding of human nutrition, regenerative organic farming, and the profound impact our relationship with the more-than-human world has on health and wellbeing.
In 2012 we created Haddon Copse Farm and, over the past fourteen years, this has become both our passion and our life’s work. As we farm our land and tend our livestock to produce healthy, vital, and sustainable food, we dedicate ourselves to sharing this place with every other inhabitant of this small patch of Dorset — from the mycorrhizal fungi beneath our feet to the magnificent oaks above.
Our relationship with the more-than-human world guides our daily lives. Soil to Soul is an invitation to step into that relationship with us — to listen, to notice, to be changed by what you encounter, and to return to your daily life carrying that experience with you.
“There is life before a day at Haddon Copse Farm and there is life after it.”
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angelcottage@runbox.uk
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