Lucy Bell

So it's really useful for like not losing children.

What's for lunch, Lucy?

Well, the girls have just gone harvesting dandelions.

We're going to do some dandelion fritters.

Dandelion fritters.

Yeah, that's right.

Ciara Hinksman, she's the founding chair of the Irish Forest School Association.

She brought over trainers from the UK.

And so I was in the first cohort of trainees in 2013.

From that, the Irish Forest School Association was founded.

And now there are over, you know, at least 200, if not more, leaders trained around the country.

So that's including primary school teachers, freelancers, people in all kinds of settings.

It's starting to become known and people are looking for it and they're looking for it for their children.

There are forest schools in nearly every county in Arlington.