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Our sixth issue of Seedlings is out this week — SEEDLINGS VI: FEAST. We explore food, the gateway between us and the more-than-human world, with art, poetry, recipes and prints. Edited by @will.j.wood , @corrangreen and @alessia.fenwick Cover design by @corrangreen with a plate by @lymebaypress And featuring the work of over sixty artists and writers. Seedlings VI: Feast is printed in a wide range of techniques and bound in a glorious saddle-stitch by our wonderful collective! Thank you to everyone who came along in the past six weeks to help print and bind! We had a lovely time sharing our process with the community and truly couldn’t have made it without you ❤️🌱 Online and distributed by @public_knowledge_books Edition of 200.

Seedlings: V, QUEER AS NATURE. Our handmade magazine explores the intersection of nature and queerness with poetry, essays and art. Our magazine testifies that queerness is natural, offering a selection of letterpress printed poems, paintings, photography, and more. Other highlights include an essay about the anarchic, queer sex habits of earthworms by Michael Huldt and a very moving poem responding to the Supreme Court decision that slashed trans rights in April by @gilbey_writes . Among the artworks are queer weeds by @helencook and a print collaboration with @olivialanguage with drawings by @alice_barker_ designed by our editor @corrangreen . The magazines are printed with a mix of letterpress, risograph and high quality digital prints by @will.j.wood , @alice_barker_ and @hunters_nightmare_ , and then handbound by our volunteers @lucia_morciano , @alex.haydn , @likagorskaia , @lemonrisotto and @lucie.ailsa . Cover girl @xylasuzuki , photos by @corrangreen Seedlings V: Queer as Nature, July 2025. Printed by @seedlings.studio , edited by @will.j.wood and @corrangreen . Limited edition, £15 for sale on our site.

So excited to launch second edition of our handprinted letterpress print of the final passage of @robgmacfarlane ‘s Is a River Alive? All profits support @medicalaidpal . This second, final edition of 75 is on a brighter shade of Ingres paper with the writer adding a special, final em-dash to mark the way the river flows on. The first edition of this print sold out in a few hours, so we’ve given the final copies to @peoplesletters bookshop in Bethnal Green, East London. Please go check out their wonderful shop! Print 15x30cm, on archive Ingres paper, with a title plate designed by @corrangreen and supplied by @lymebaypress . Text typeset and printed by @will.j.wood at @green_alley_studios .

We had the pleasure of hosting a group of artists from @seedlings.studio in the Print Workshop. 🌱 It was an inspiring and collaborative day carving and printing linocuts and wood engravings inspired by Spring. Thanks @jakehusband_ for these incredible photographs, including paper negatives shot and developed in the workshop! #GainsboroughsHouse #SudburySuffolk #PrintWorkshop #Printmaking #Seedlings

Want to share reviews, features, essays or poetry sequences through the Seedlings community? We’re launching 🕸️ SEEDLINGS WEB 🕸️ edited by @likagorskaia for long-form content! To submit or for more info, please email!

Sneak a peak at the amazing programme of our second ever Film Fest on 27 April 🌱

We're so excited to run the next Seedlings Ramble - our series of free, radical walking tours - in Battersea and Chelsea with the @royalcollegeofart Green Futures Group! 🌱🌱 On Thursday at 11am, @alex.haydn and @will.j.wood will guide you along the Thames, through queer, radical and ecological histories. It's part of the Green Futures Group's Ecollegey Festival, exploring ways that we might live differently. ❤️‍🔥 SIGN UP FREE at the link in @seedlings.studio bio - limited places! 🌛🌛 We'll look at the watery environment of James Whistler's Nocturnes paintings, and learn about the anticolonial fighter Shapurji Saklatvala, one-time Communist Party MP for Battersea North. Passing suffragette, socialist (and RCA-trained painter) Sylvia Pankhurst's old house, we'll hear about the '20s lesbians, '60s trans pioneers and '70s punks who made Chelsea home. The Ramble will end in Battersea Park, with time to reflect and create among the trees and waves. Bring your notebook if you'd like! [Image by James Whistler]

Here is our programme! And to celebrate its release, we’ve giving a 10% discount on all festival tickets 🌱🎥 Come for an evening of nature films at @closeupfilmcentre on Monday 27 April 7-10pm. DM for the concession discount code, adds on to the 10% too!

Back and bigger, we’re excited to launch our second ever Film Fest: an evening of nature films at @closeupfilmcentre 🌱 Join us for almost three hours of shorts and docs exploring the planet and our place in it. The evening is programmed by @jack_michael_carr and @will.j.wood Tickets on sale now at our site, if you need a concession discount code please DM us!

still thinking about the other night… our FEAST: the sixth issue launch felt like something really special. A room full of warmth, openness, and people doing such exciting, thoughtful things. It meant a lot to share that space and hear everyone’s stories. We’re feeling very grateful and quite humbled by it all. We’re already thinking about the next one and hoping to find a bigger space so more people can come along. We still have a few copies of FEAST left. Just thank you again, it was a really special evening. Lots of love Seedlings x

Hello! Next week is 113 years to the day that Edward Thomas left his house in Clapham to cycle to the Quantocks on the Bristol Channel. In his book, In Pursuit of Spring, he noted down the signs of the new season: chiffchaffs and swifts, celandines and primroses. It marked a spring in his life too, helping lift him out of his depression, and his friend Robert Frost would tell him the book made him a poet. Our planet is undoubtably in a phase of winter, with environmental destruction, global heating, inequality, genocides and wars plaguing our streets and screens. There are signs, perhaps, of an Earth-spring, coming to bring renewal with our relationship with the planet: restoration, eco-agriculture, anti-consumerism, community compassion and tolerance. I will be setting out on my bike next week for a bike journey in search of signs of these two forms of spring. Six months ago I was knocked off my bike by a car and was unable to ride for weeks, with a near-broken wrist where I’d reached out to break my fall. I decided a few days after leaving A&E on this plan, to get back on my bike and leave London like Thomas. Fresh air, spring birds, bulbs and new life awaits! If you’d like to join my journey, I’ll be writing up my field notes on Substack before writing an article for the next edition of Seedlings featuring interviews with writer James Canton @jrcanton1 , farmers and other locals who are leading the transition to a sustainable relationship with the planet. Thank you! Photo and map by Alice Barker. And an image of the edition of Thomas’s In Pursuit of Spring from Little Toller @littletollerbooks who’ve done so much to keep him in print and in our minds. The final image is Climate Central’s projection of sea-level rise by 2050. If climate change—the winter of the anthropocene—cannot be avoided: if we cannot transform our relationship with this planet, then my journey this spring will not be a hopeful pilgrimage journey, but instead an elegy to lands that I loved before they were lost. Will J. Wood @will.j.wood