Sideways & Unboxed
Home Education • Botanicals • Practical Foraging
By Guinea Gourmet Treats
Useful knowledge from the things we’re already learning, making and doing. Follow curiosity sideways: turn an interest into a learning project, understand a plant in depth or develop practical outdoor skills.
Learning Sideways
Home Education Resources for Curious Minds
Practical projects with adult guidance and optional learner sheets. Follow real interests through maths, English, research, creativity and everyday problem-solving.
Available now: Plan It • Price It • Make It and You’re In Charge of Halloween — two downloadable project packs to use at your own pace.
The Botanical Library
Plant Guides, Science, History & Uses
Understand the plant, not just its name. A growing research and reference collection connecting plant identity, biology, nutrition, history and uses.
Research findings, traditional uses and folklore are treated separately. The first plant guides are being developed.
The Forager’s Guide
Identify • Gather • Process • Use
The practical side: recognising plants outdoors, responsible gathering, preparation, drying and storage. Positive identification and suitability for the intended species and use come first.
The first practical guides are being developed. Start with an observation-only activity while the collection grows.
One subject. Three ways to explore.
A plant such as hazel could become a researched profile in The Botanical Library, practical guidance in The Forager’s Guide and a leaf-measuring or nature-journalling project in Learning Sideways. The subject connects them; the purpose and depth change.
Rooted in Guinea Gourmet Treats
Sideways & Unboxed brings together the plant research, animal knowledge and enrichment behind GGT with practical experience of home education. The resources turn that knowledge into something other people can use in their own way.
Follow curiosity sideways.