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 ...
August 20th from 10 AM to 1 PMOur first meet-up was a lovely, intimate gathering and I am so excited to continue to offer these times of connecting with each other. The next Circle Meet-up topic will be, Fire is Medicine, with a celebration of our life force energy, sunshine, sexuality, and the Sun God Lugh / Lughnasadh. Our activity for this session will be to make Corn Husk Dolls together. Corn husk dollies are meant to ...
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. ...
I am currently recovering from some sort of illness that struck me a couple of days ago. In any case, I feel well enough to make a post, so here goes. The farm produce is flourishing, with the exception of some cabbage moth and slug damage to the brassicas. In the picture are some onions and cress in the hoophouse. The cress is some that reseeded itself, so we let it grow along with the other vegetables ...
wild rose by Brennah Cavanaugh Photography LLC By August 1st, the wild rose pictured here will be a newly forming rose hip. Likewise, the wheat in the fields will soon be 'headed out', and ready for harvesting. Depending on the type, it will be harvested in July or August in Michigan. "The time of Lughnasadh is a time of the beginning of reaping (of grains) - of revelling in the height of summer, and ...
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 ...