Ground Provisions is an artist-led schooled-by-the-forest for grown-ups. 

It takes the form of experimental gatherings, workshops, walks and reading groups which centre nature as a sourcebook of instructions, insights and inspiration for navigating and flourishing alongside each other in a ruinous and unstable present.  

How can syncing with the rhythm of seasons help us navigate off-beat times? How can developing a sensitivity to nature’s processes and ways of being help us critique current systems? How might it gesture towards more sustainable, inclusive and liberatory possibilities? What practices might help us refresh our full-sensing abilities and reclaim ourselves as nature? 

Whether it’s the generative composting of autumn; the queerness of fungal reproduction; the deep slow-th-ful rest of winter roots; the fecund diversity at the ecotones of two different habitats; the zero-waste existence of dead wood Ground Provisions invites people where ever they are, with what ever energy they can muster to listen, feel, taste, smell, behold nature as a teacher. 

Ground Provisions was founded grounded in 2022 by artist, PhD researcher and London National Park City Ranger Becky Lyon. Whilst she conjures the session plans and sets the first prompt, Ground Provisions is not a guidebook to follow but an invitation to develop your own ideas, come up with your own questions and arrive at your own practice. 

Alongside nature we draw on the generous intellectual reserves of scholars, land workers, healers and practitioners who are helping us un-learn harmful and unhelpful ideas from bell hooks to Ursula K. Le Guin, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and Tim Ingold.