Walkabout/Talkabouts: For many years, KAW Council has held monthly walkabout/talkabouts: a chance to take a walk with old and new friends, exploring a particular place in our watershed and learning more about the other-than-human species among us. 

Please also not the 11th Turtle Island Bioregional Congress happening Sept. 15-19 in Cascadia in Vernonia, Oregon. A group of us from KAW will be attending where we’ll share more about our 44-year-old bioregional group. We look forward to telling you all about when we get home.

Fall Calender 2026

Sunday, October 4, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m..: Walkabout/Talkabout: Come visit with us a for a potluck, discussion, and walk. Our topic will be two-fold: exploring what we wish for KAW to become over the coming years and beyond as well as a report from those of us who attended the 11th Turtle Island Bioregional Congress Sept. 15-19 in Oregon. We meet at 527 Lake St., Lawrence. Please bring a potluck dish, snack, or treat to share.

Sunday, November 29, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m..: Walkabout/Talkabout: Come visit with us a for a potluck, discussion, and walk. T0pic to be determined, and walk on the land of Wells Farm. We meet at 1357 N. 1000 Rd., Lawrence. Please bring a potluck dish, snack, or treat to share.

Stay tuned for our January special Walkabout/Talkabout on books that changed and are changing our lives, an annual favorite!

Wild East Lawrence Walk (Self-Guided)

Wild East Lawrence Walk is a walk highlighting the native and ecological features of East Lawrence, including the topics of cool trees, the soils and geology of East Lawrence, and the seasonal highlights of birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and other wildlife found within/passing through the neighborhood. The walk, which is part of the Songs & Stories of East Lawrence project with Kelley Hunt & Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, is (because of the pandemic) now eternal and self-guided, thanks to Ken Lassman’s narration and Natalie Lassman’s music. Here is the self-guided walk below, and you can access the accompanying map here.

Past Walkabout/Talkabouts: Topics

Here is a sampling of some of the topics we’ve explored

Plants We Know and Love — Many of us have long-term relationships with plants or casual flirtations. Let’s talk about the plants of our lives: why and how they speak to us, how they’re changing and evolving, and how we’re living, working, breathing, and communicating with them.

The Birds of Our Lives — Let’s talk about birds we see, saw, want to see, heard or hear, and find astonishing, intriguing, or beguiling. We can also talk about bird evolution and migration, the impact of climate change on birds, and what birds sing to our souls.

Our Annual Favorite Books Recently Read Edition – Each December or January, we delight in sharing our favorite books from the past year. Bring something to read (a brief excerpt or poem or passage), books to hold up and praise, and questions and curiosities.

Weather and How It Changes Our Lives – The weather changes our moments and our lives, sometimes more than others. Let’s talk weather and skies, clouds and storms, patterns and shifts as well as how the we’re changing the weather.