We welcome Louise Bloomfield who is running a grief retreat, ‘Sitting with the beast’, in the woods on 18th May 10am-6pm. Please look on her website for booking and further details:
https://www.louisebloomfield.co.uk/grief-retreats Nurturing retreats. Space for reflection & connection. Grief is hard work. It can be emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausting. Despite grief being a natural process, it can feel painful, overwhelming, weird, and confusing, and it can leave us wondering whether it’s all ‘normal’. Too often, people can feel rushed through their grief by well-meaning loved ones, […]
COLLAGE WORKSHOP ON 20TH APRIL 2024 AT FISHPOND WOOD
James Owen Thomas Come and discover the magic of Fishpond Wood, Peat Lane, Bewerley, HG3 5HX. As artist in residence at Fishpond Wood, I lead monthly workshops in the Hexagon Study Barn in the woods and explore with you the craft skills and artistic approaches needed to create collage. Find out more about me and […]
WORKSHOP ON 30TH MARCH 2024 AT FISHPOND WOOD
Come and discover the magic of Fishpond Wood, Peat Lane, Bewerley, HG3 5HX. As artist in residence at Fishpond Wood, I lead monthly workshops in the Hexagon Study Barn in the woods and explore with you the craft skills and artistic approaches needed to create collage. Find out more about me and my work at […]
Fishpond Wood Open Tuesdays. On Tuesdays, beginning 5th March, volunteers are welcome to drop by into the woods to join us in woodland restoration activities, anytime between 10-1pm. Come to The hexagon (study barn) by the icehouse.
If you want to come along and volunteer for an hour or so, or just have a cup of tea and chat outdoors as we work, you are hugely welcome. Bring gardening gloves, suitable clothing and a flask and snack if you’re staying for a while. If we move to another area within the wood […]
Snow arrived this week and with it children from Year 6 at Greatwood, who created, played and sculpted through the day.
We enjoyed a very happy day in the snow, warming up with hot chocolate and sausages. Thanks for being such a great group.
Thanks to James Owen Thomas, our wonderful artist in residence, for coming to plant trees in the woods this week.
Wildish woodland workshop
We welcomed a Wildish working party to the woods. They explored making the most out of a fallen silver birch tree. We used the trunk to make planks and uprights to create a bench (see photos below). We used a battery powered chainsaw to cut smaller branches and put them in a charcoal kiln to […]
Kokedama and Bonsai weekend workshop
Pete ran a Sunday workshop for Wildish. Everyone showed their creative side, sculpting Bonsai trees and creating Kokedamas to take home. Many thanks to everyone who came along to make it such a happy morning.
A big thank you to the Skell Valley Volunteers!
Many thanks to all the volunteers who came to clear rhododendron on a cold January day so that we could plant five cherry and five silver birch trees to add to the other thirty which have been recently planted beyond the pond. Your hard work is really appreciated.