As a carpet of yellow ochre leaves fell beneath the Hornbeam, (and randomly someone arrived to see our Hornbeams), we worked around the fire, collecting and steaming leaves in mordanted cloth, and low what glorious result! See images below. Meanwhile, with Rachel fresh back from her travels to Sussex, we planted the seeds she had… Continue reading Elders 20 – Botanicals and seeds
Question; what have you seen or heard as you came into the woods today? squeaky birdthe chickencrunchy acornssunlight through the treesvoices over there, falling clunk acornsPeter and HollyThe colours of the hazels changing since last week, dark and light layers becoming yellow, green giving way to goldpretty babes in the woodslooked like someone had swept… Continue reading Elders 19 Printing botanicals
It was national poetry day, as Caroline and Nicky reminded us. So we combined this with our home work, words beginning with ART, inspired by an artichoke or a drawing of an artichoke, which was done by Gill - see below. I wanna to be your vacume cleaner breathing in your dust/ Michael Laskey FART… Continue reading Elders 18 Poems and Galls
We dressed in orange and green, socks, shoes, trousers, hats, all a celebration of organge or green. A fabulous display of squash art, a collection of recipes, a trip down to the community garden to collect up the last of the squash before a frost came, (thank you Jacob for transporting) Two Roosters kept us… Continue reading Elders 17 – More Squash, roosters, …
A glorious return, and welcome A fascinating dive into Squash led by Marion, telling us some of her history and that of the squash, naming them, and singing their praises. Nicky is writing up the notes but here are some photographs. We began the collection of flowers and pressing them. More of this the next… Continue reading Elders 16 celebrating Squash
Dear Kinda team in Kaliwoods Thank you all for your great efforts to clear the wood at the end of last term. A huge amount of rubbish was let go of. The sheds - summer house and chinese metal shed are tidy and mostly labelled - the summer could do with some more labels. The… Continue reading 2025 Last Post – New Term
A few of us were fresh back from Folk East, so we untangled Rachel's string, and then choose which of the luggage labels of 'Where did you come from' deserved an outing. The poets Caroline and Virginia made the choice, a few of them here. As we did last year, we counted the sapling species… Continue reading Friends of Kaliwood
Our first meeting this summer described here Next meeting due Thursday 21st August. Details will be sent out.
I’ll sing you one oGreen grow the rushes oWhat is your one oOne is Kali dog and landAnd ever more shall be so I’ll sing you two oGreen grow the rushes oWhat is two oTwo, two the Yorkshire fogClothed in green o oOne is Kali dog and landAnd ever more shall be so I’ll sing you three… Continue reading The Grass song
From the beginning we were scientists, and how impressive we were. From witnessing the first spring of the pond, to the minimal growth of specialist trees in this drought year, to all sorts of surprises, like the mining bees beside the pond. Here's our last day movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZO0ROrdmOg This is what you said on our… Continue reading Testaments 2025
Kinda Elders in the woods 