Author: kalikellett

The frog story with toddler group Mell teaching Gracie to saw We are at the final stages of preparing our oak boards - gifts from this wood to our kitchens. 3 years ago, 9 oaks were felled, and once planked they were used to make the cabin in the wood. We are using their left… Continue reading KFS – December – Oak boards, sawing, and millions of moths

Two news. A new more permanent sign - a good omen - put up by Tino over the weekend, and decorated with Holly, which was our tree of the day. A new roundabout enabling a more fluid circulatory system around the hardstanding - tested and kinda worked. Needs a bit more tweaking. Our tree was… Continue reading KFS November 28 – Stone soups to brilliant bodging

The seasonal cold finally arrived with the east wind, but once again we were safe from rain. Wrapped up toddlers (no Ivy or Holly to light the fire) arrived, gloves essential. Only the Twilight kids needed the fire. The great news was Mell was one tooth less. With great courage and far too long in… Continue reading KFS – November 21, Mells tooth, oak boards and shadow puppets

Wallace the wormery - it's the circle of life! At the Toddler group two  potential carpenters and wood workerss cut their first logs for our fire. With Mells on the other end  of the saw,  NAME and NAME cut logs from a Hazel cord to the rhythm of Row, Row Row the boat. For the… Continue reading KFS – November – sawing, sitting, fire making

Thanks to the great John Esling, the Kaliwood ponds are now framed with woven hazel and some willow. In fact there are 6 different styles used, including one done exclusively by Kinda kids. Here are the photographs and here's  a video of John teaching the kids

It was a day of Guests and H's. With our Toddler group, and encouraged by Sage, we made a Hedgehog Hibernation Home, complete with Leaf Kebabs for when the Hedgehog came back late at night after a few hedge-lagers and felt a bit peckish. (Thank you Holly for this ingenious sport). The actual hedgehog home… Continue reading KFS November – day of H’s and WORMS

Did we ever catch up with the day? Our todler group was all H's. We started by building a hedgehog hibernation home, location chosen by one of our 3 visitors that day, John Esling, our pond fencing man, who wisely pointed out that the decaying wood would give nutritian to various bugs and fungi that… Continue reading KFS November

Magical Toddler morning session, where Mel enlightened the fire for the last time this Celtic year, on the day of Samhain, end of harvest and beginning of dark half of year. Sage appeared, and we all got a nose blessing. Ant trampolines, Troll fingernails,  Ivy almost and Leela making the spell with a witches hat,… Continue reading Samhain – October 31st

We gathered under the instructions of John Esling Hedgery, to learn the gentle art of hazel hurdling, to have a meeting, and have the first of hopefully many, working days at Kaliwood - an exchange for hosting Kinda Forest School in the wood, a payback of the most generous kind.  Like plating, we learned how… Continue reading Working Sunday – with Hazel Hurdling around the ponds