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  • Post- Pandemic Homesteading

    Has the dream of homesteading set sail since the pandemic?  Is ‘homesteading’ still relevant today when very few can afford to do it because of …

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  • Beans, Beans the Magical Fruit

    I grow lots of beans. Yes, waxy green, yellow and purple pods that wink out at me through summer’s thick vegetation, to be eaten fresh. …

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  • Plantain: Traveller’s Talisman

    I’ve been reading Martin Shaw’s “Scatterlings” this winter. The message is a wise old one, that “what we’re searching far and wide for, turns out …

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  • The Venerable Hazelnut, Generous & Versatile

    By far the quickest growing, and easiest going nut trees are Hazels. In my area we have the wild Beaked Hazelnut and we plant a …

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  • Seeding a Future of Beauty, Fecundity and Healing

    Don’t underestimate the power of the seed. They are very, very small but without them life as we know it would end on the planet. …

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  • Illness and the Heart of Darkness, Our Fear

    In my work as a healer, and within myself, I can clearly see illness is attached to our fears and unprocessed trauma. Through the work …

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  • Hope Springs Eternal

    This spring, after having ‘lost hope’ in many ways over the last year, I have been cautiously basking in the light of ‘hope’ like never …

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  • Nettle: The Rich Prince

    I was harvesting Nettle all morning and many hours later my hands are still vibrating, numb and tingling like stars in the frozen night sky. …

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  • The Deer Story

    There were portents before it happened. Nothing just happens. As for how I know they’re omens? I’ve said before by way of explanation, that here …

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  • PODCAST: The Mythic Masculine

    From The Mythic Masculine website: “Culture grows out of how you garden. Not the other way around.”— Steven Martyn My guest today is Steven Martyn, …

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  • WATCH: THE ROUNDHOUSE

    THE ROUNDHOUSE: Following the Patterns of Divinity in Our Bones and Ancestral Traditions In this short film by Steve Turliuk made at the Natural Building …

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  • The Daily Rites of Passage

    It has been said or imagined that for our ancestors, all of life was ceremonial. While that may be true in the some idealistic sense, …

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