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
Forest school teachers, Mel, Eloise and Kym came and were shown around the Hedgery Hazel Hurdling around the pond by John. Mel found the Titanic moment with Kate immitation. Paul cutting and finding bindings, progressed to 3 binders.Eloise a natural snedder. John fell in the pond. Mel and I cleaned out the green van, while… Continue reading Wednesday half term working
‘It’s not like working here’, said John Esling. ‘It’s like a dance’. Another glorious, rainless, sunshine October day, and day 3 of creating a boundary around the pond. Thanks to unexpected funding from Sara Solnick. Sal and Nicky's willow woven along the southern boundary of the pond. More stakes made Finished staking out the hazel… Continue reading 2018 Fencing the Pond – Day 3
John Esling, from a company companionably called Hedgery, wrote us a remarkable proposal, remarkable as he was so much in line, in tune, in touch with all of our teaching and thinking. Here it is Holton Fence Esling. He arrived today, to start working with Paul to create a boundary around the two ponds in… Continue reading 2018 Fencing the pond
A glorious October day, shirt sleeves, a net of cobwebs on the field outside the wood, ploughed an hour before, and swiftly netted by the opportune spiders, to catch the insects keen to breakfast on the fresh turned earths offerings. The toddlers were the first to see the new sign - Hazel - that Mel… Continue reading 2018 KFS Week 5 October
This weeks tree was HAZEL More and more are registering. We are almost up to our quota's. Working with the early Toddler group, I realise how important Forest School play and experience is not only for the toddler but also the parent. It is nourishing and with Eloise bending hazel and making harps with wool,… Continue reading 2018 KFS Week 3 – September 26
The week of the OAK. Heads down thumbs up. Through Speaking stick we devised our rules of our TRIBE and our wood, from giving each other space to not stepping on young trees. Eloise gave us a brief history of permaclture - looking after and sharing, Plant, Self and Other. A strong south west wind… Continue reading 2018 KFS Week 2
Kinda Elders in the woods 