Category: 2019

'Imagine you're in an C18th painting' were the instructions to the group who came on the Heritage Tree Walk, September 2025. Here's the small but perfectly formed group of this years first heritage tree walk. Begun in 2019, these walks are part and parcel of our Heritage Tree data set, which not only documents our… Continue reading Halesworth Heritage Tree Walk 2026

'Imagine you're in an C18th painting' were the instructions to the group who came on the first Heritage Tree Walk, September 2025. Halesworth Heritage Tree walk day 2 gathering front of the Sequoia 2025, planted by Tamsyn in 2017 (see photo below taken a few years ago) for us to show the scale of it's… Continue reading Halesworth Heritage Tree Walk 2025

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men,… Continue reading Hess on trees

Cosmo and Lucky came to Kaliwood. They are both roughly 15 weeks old. We'd seen Cosmo as a youngster - Luis bought him to Forest School. He'd outgrown the back garden and paddling pool and Luis was generous in his giving of them to the wood. Kali's old dog cage modified with straw and a… Continue reading Indian Runners arrive in Kaliwood

Who'd heard of Woodwose before this time? Certainly not me, or many others and that was a tantalising magnet. On our Suffolk Church fonts, in front of plain sight, and we did not know. The  wild man of the woods, green man, appears in medieval Europe, usually covered with hair, naked and with a stick. … Continue reading The Last Woodwose came to Kaliwood

Halesworth Heritage Trees were defined by HIB and Richard Woolnaugh in 2012. The full list (in paper format) is currently being annotated and mapped (March 2024). These defined Heritage Trees were encompassed into our Neighbourhood Plan, which was passed in 2022. The Government Heritage Trees Bill [HL] private members bill is here Wenhaston Heritage Tree… Continue reading Halesworth Heritage Tree Walk 2019

The origin of the term "Tree hugger" The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while… Continue reading Tree Hugger

It was 15 years since we'd seen each other, and Bryan made the chance happen on a stop over from Germany to Boston. We had 24 hours. I needed to find a place near Heathrow. Shunning places in towns, I found the Blackwood arms, which had a sizable carpark amid google earth green, and they'd… Continue reading Burnham Beeches with Bryan