About the event

Pack your picnic and grab your rug ready for some outdoors fun!

Drop into Exmoor Lawns green (in front of Exmoor House) in Dulverton between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 31st May.

After enjoying your picnic, get involved in nature crafts or maybe get your face painted as a native animal! Discover The Poetry Machine to create your own pine marten poem and dive into woodland wildlife storytelling taking pace at 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm.

Looking for inspiration on what to pack in your picnic? 

• Create sandwiches inspired by pine marten food sources like peanut butter, egg or jam for a delicious combination of savoury and sweet flavours.
• Pine martens often consume nuts and seeds. Make a nutty trail mix with a variety of nuts, seeds, dried fruits.
• Create a berry salad with a mix of fresh berries, such as strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries for a refreshing and colourful dessert that you would love as much as a pine marten!
• Pine martens live in forested areas, and roasted root vegetables like carrots, parsnips, and sweet potatoes are a great way to evoke the earthy flavours of the woods.
• For a playful dessert, create chocolate or peanut butter biscuits and use a paw print-shaped cookie cutter to make pine marten paw print cookies. 

No food or water is provided at the event so please bring your picnic, or, food is available at nearby cafe's and pubs. 

Lion Stables Public Toilets are a 5 minute walk away next to the Lion Stable Car Park.

Free and no booking required, we can't wait to celebrate pine martens with you!

This event is part of the Exmoor Nature Festival 2025 and part of the Two Moor Pine Pine Martens Bounce Back: The Two Moors Pine Marten Project. The project is reintroducing critically endangered pine martens to the South West of England, helping to restore natural balance to our much loved woodlands and bringing back these fascinating wild creatures to the landscapes where they once belonged. This project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Forestry England and a number of generous donors.