With Colonial Bent Grass (Bent for short) as our talking stick we checked into our circle of community and found the answers to What are the uses of grass?
- Cattle food, so our food
- lawns
- Reedboats
- Rush matting
- hashish
- Rice is grass seed – so a food source
- Paths cut through long grass
- The Savannah hypothesis
- Milk and bread, via cattle
- Small brown butterflies and gatekeepers and skippers lay their eggs on tall grass
- 10,000 species of grass – more than insects
Marianne bought in an extraordinary book, published in 1891 all about grasses, with beauiful drawn plates of grasses – how were they done we wondered? Emily thought etched, with the colour on the plate. The book was dedicated to Hooker (of Halesworth)
We had a young visitor, Rowan, who as it happened knew a bit of latin and loved botantical books
Each person had a go at weaving grass on Kally’s loom.
Emily bought in a nest woven with grass
Virginia found a chrysalis of the Five spot brnet moth, attached to a grass, EVIDENCE of her morning observation.
Some measurement was done by Peter of the black poplars, not much movement in this drought, but they were still alive.
Rachel’s school prefect, Sylve from Norwich, visited.
So many photographs.
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Kinda Elders in the woods 