Hi everyone! Our last Mystery School meetup was once again a wonderful time! We had so much fun making the corn dolls, playing Nature Bingo, and harvesting tomatoes and spice bush berries. We had a snack of salsa (made from the tomatoes) and chips, and spice bush berries were sent home for drying (to later grind as a spice like peppercorns). Corn Doll Making Corn Doll Making Corn Doll ...
The gods and goddesses tell us about eternal truths. We can see these truths in the ancient myths told about the constellations and the movements of the luminaries, as well as within our own bodies and lives, and the events of the world around us. The mythology found regarding the heavens and its relationship to earth and people are timeless tales which tell the same stories in different ways throughout time amongst a multitude of cultures. Our ...
Saturday, August 3rd at 4pm - Ritual and Potluck native coneflowers Hi everyone! A ritual and potluck is planned as per our usual Wheel of the Year celebrations. There is currently a chance of rain in the forecast, so if necessary we will meet in the hoop house. If anyone would like to hold space for one of the four quarters, please let me know. This means you will read the part for ...
We had a lovely Lughnasadh Celebration yesterday with those who were able to make it out. One of our sacred Druid plants, who grows at the Sanctuary, asked to be featured and made use of for our ritual, so we happily obliged. At the entrance to the ritual space, we had some agrimony infused water for participants to use for cleansing. * * * * * * ** A few folks relaxing after the potluck. ...
Look carefully for the nuts inside the "wrappers" The photos I'm sharing today are from a hazelnut harvest we did last February. This is the time of year when they're ready, but in our experience you can collect them anytime you get around to it, as long as the squirrels don't beat you to it. Our hazelnuts are the wild, native variety which are smaller than cultivars, but their taste ...
It was great to have Alyssa and daughter, Allie come out on Saturday for a work day. They finished harvesting the garlic scapes, weeded a flower bed, and dug and planted a bed of thyme plants which we started from seeds earlier this spring. They also helped me transplant a paw paw tree seedling to a wetter area where it will hopefully be happier. Between chores, we sampled some of my elderflower cordial ...
Ok, I won't go into all the health benefits of aronia berries, but this is another of the perennials we planted that has been incredibly productive. As you can see in the photos, the aronia bushes were only a couple of inches tall when we planted them in 2014, and are now five or six feet tall. Even the very first year, they had started producing berries. Over the years, we've made lots of aronia crumble to share ...