Home Grown Medicine Cabinet
If you make the decision to activate your innate self-healing mechanisms, stay away from the medical system, eat healthily and live as naturally as you can, without doubt your health and vitality will improve. Nonetheless, even if you enjoy excellent…
Summer Solstice Ritual
This summer solstice (for us in the northern hemisphere), is an especially powerful time for transformation, as it is followed within hours by an annular eclipse and then the new moon. Here, we will be celebrating Medusa’s Wedding. This is…
Medusa’s Wedding Part One: Preparations
Manipura, city of jewels Medusa’s wedding takes place in the city of jewels, the manipura, commonly known as the solar plexus chakra. It is an alchemical wedding, uniting the waters of the sacral chakra with the fire of the solar…
Dirt Cheap Fertilizer: micro-organisms
JADAM: people who are like nature The year before last a friend introduced us to JADAM: ultra low-cost organic farming from Korea. JADAM means, ‘people who are like nature’ and refers to nature-like people who choose to follow the wisdom…
Deadwood, Microbes and Demons
Deadwood is the fruit of a dying paradigm – and where’s there’s deadwood, there will always be microbes that are fundamental to the cycle of life. The enforced quarantine has barely impacted on our daily lives, but yesterday as we…
Yarrow: Chiron’s Arrow
Yarrow, Achillea millefolium is another one of my favourite helper plants (along with St John’s Wort, Melissa and Plantain). It grows wild here through spring and the long summer and I harvest the flowers and leaves and dry and store…
Broccoli Medicine
Growing broccoli Broccoli is one of our garden successes. I sowed seeds of several different types, purple sprouting, green sprouting and the large headed variety – the purple sprouting is the most prolific and easy going by far. It’s been…
Waste Water Reed Bed
Convenience or freedom? As off-gridders we have to deal with our own shit, quite literally, as well as waste and grey water. There are many systems out there, but every system I researched seemed overly complicated, labour intensive and expensive.…
The Bearings
Bearing: 1. the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures: a person of dignified bearing. 2. the act, capability, or period of producing or bringing forth. 3. something that is produced; a crop. 4. the act of enduring or the capacity to endure. 5. reference or relation (usu. fol. by on): It has no bearing on the problem. 6.a. a supporting part of a structure. b. the area of contact between a bearing member, as a beam, and a pier, wall, or other underlying support. 7. the support and guide for a rotating, oscillating, or sliding shaft, pivot, or wheel. 8. Often, bearings. direction: The pilot radioed the plane’s bearings. 9. a horizontal direction expressed in degrees east or west of a true or magnetic north or south direction. 10. a device on a heraldic field. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Alchemy and…
Melissa: Queen of the Bee Haven
It’s just before Imbolc and in the garden, Melissa is thrusting her crinkled, heart-shaped leaves through the cold wet clay with wild abandon. I picked some leaves and made a strong infusion and let it cool, so I can sip…
