Writing Hope Springs Eternal This spring, after having ‘lost hope’ in many ways over the last year, I have been cautiously basking in the 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 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 Usnea By Steven I’ve just been out for the day picking Usnea or Old Man's Beard with the kids. It's a Innocence, Consciousness and Conscience I think it's so interesting that with each age we view the previous time period as being more innocent. We The Shadow of Silviculture, part 2 Silviculture (growing 'tree gardens'). When we live in the bush or on a farm, cutting trees is a reality we Teacher Trees – Part 1 This time of year, when all my garden friends and wild herbs have called it for the season, I spend The Meaning and Gift of Worrying While this post is not about Covid in particular, it is about an equally contagious and devastating related illness. This Colonization, Gods, Goddesses and Three Alchemic Realms The elemental descriptions of our cosmos that we lived with for tens of thousands of years still hold true in Echinacea, Snake Root and Snake Oil By Steven Martyn I’ve come to have a good nose for sniffing out ‘the hidden goods’ of our past amongst Spells, Pumpkins and the Deep Mystery of Being By Steven Martyn Our whole lives we are guided away from the mystery and the magic. Driven away, like sheep Fall Equinox As we step through the gate that is the fall equinox (sept 21) it seems here at the farm this 1 2 3 … 5 »