Jack and two Middleton parish councillors came to Kaliwood, to compare our tree planting project for their potential 40 acres they were hoping to secure from Suffolk County Council.
Author: kalikellett
Traveller, habitual writer, dog walker, East Anglian, woodland owner
Marlpit Forest Garden
Marion invited me to this garden I’ve been meaning to visit, just an hour from me, in the place of my birth. I always feel ambivalent arriving in Norwich: that pull of place of birth, from Dereham outings and shopping with my mother, and a life long desire to return there, together with the realisation… Continue reading Marlpit Forest Garden
Community Garden update: Marion’s path and woodchip layer
Improptu work party on glorious October warm day. The Forest Garden path, designed and laid out by Marion, was lined with cardboard then layered with chipping. Freshpack dropped us 2 coffee bean husks in sacks and lots of hessian sacks. Aiden, people from Bruiseyard, Sam, Marion. With Sam, part of the forest garden is now… Continue reading Community Garden update: Marion’s path and woodchip layer
Tree Warden seeding and one source of Deben
A glorious (dry again) October day for us to gather at the inspirational 2 Fields outside Debenham, a diverse community, in effect, run by Jeanie and Glenn. Glen on a digger in the background preparing the base of their home (challenges galore). For Fe, organising the event, it was the morning of the death of… Continue reading Tree Warden seeding and one source of Deben
NCFed Annual Gathering Nottingham
Somewhere west of Nottingham, in a scout camp, a warm October Thursday. Fe by the fire, Fay in a rocking chair she usefully packed with her. Three dogs and I inside the van, the youngest, Kobo, on her first road trip, as excited as a young child. She enjoys a pigs ear. Before here (it… Continue reading NCFed Annual Gathering Nottingham
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Gift of Quercus
I gave myself a gift of oaks after the climate action weekend - a joy that I anticipate to plant these now there is time! Thank you Jurassic plants. Love your packaging. Quercus rubra - Red Oak Quercus libani - Lebanon Oak Quercus trojana - Macedonian Oak, Trojan Oak Evergreen Oak Collection Quercus canariensis -… Continue reading Gift of Quercus
Halesworth Tree News – September 2026
Sad news indeed when a magnificent elder tree will be felled and taken out of the famililar skyline as we walk up or down Station Road. The Magnolia copper beech will be felled due to being colonised by Meripilus Giganteus. Meripilus causes aggressive white rot of the roots and basal area which in turn significantly… Continue reading Halesworth Tree News – September 2026
How climate change is reshaping Britain’s trees: Pride of India is in it
BBC Judus Tree (cercis) Golden Rain Tree (Koelreuteria paniculata), also known as Pride of India, "If you look around the country, a lot of the ash are dying," James said. "We need to keep replanting new and diverse species. "The key to mitigating climate change from a tree point of view is planting a wide… Continue reading How climate change is reshaping Britain’s trees: Pride of India is in it
Nico visiting the wood
Paul (Nico), Netta, Graham and I with 2 bottles of wine, and no fire, talked the evening through sitting on the verandah easily. The scorpion story and stories of here in the wod,k when Nico became the woodwose for the visiting children, and later when one spotted him in the co-op and shouted out: Its… Continue reading Nico visiting the wood
