Healing the Waters
What if there was such a thing as healing water? True holy water, sacred water; water that can heal any ailment. Would you drink it? Would you even taste it? Surprizingly, to me at least, many people will turn their…
Yellow dock root: badger medicine for a new story
Five years ago, I made a batch of yellow dock root tincture, for no reason at all at the time. It sat stewing silently in the back of my medicine cabinet, waiting for the moment to make its debut. That…
Eco-house build
This is our organic home. It’s an ecological house built of cob and stone. The cob was made from clay dug from our land and straw cut from our fields and the stone came from the ruined house that was…
Easy Five Star Chicken Coop
Greetings! My name is Zubynelgenubi, Zubi to my friends. I’m a gallo piñeira and I’m the king of the five star chicken coop, that was made by my valet Mister D, following my instructions. Mister D had a hard time…
Ophiussa
Ophiussa: the Land of Serpents Ophiussa, is the name the ancient Greeks gave to parts of Northern Portugal and Galicia. It means Land of the Ophis, ophis being the Greek word for serpent. Very little can be known about how…
Salvage Greenhouse
DIY greenhouse from salvage This was our first greenhouse effort: Several hundred euros, several hundred pieces to put together, eighty-five pages of instructions and fifteen minutes of wind! Obviously way too suburban for our environment. We salvaged some bits of…
Pennyroyal: Sekhmet’s Gift
Pennyroyal: facts and folklore Pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium, has a killer reputation. In relatively recent times, several women have died using pennyroyal to end unwanted pregnancies. One was a 23 year old English woman in 1897, who drank a tablespoon of…
The Heart of Co-creation
Intent and co-creation “A future event causes a photon to decide its past.” Professor Andrew Truscott In my previous post, Magnetic Intent, I described the experience of being anchored into the iron jet stream of the earth via the concentration…
Magnetic Intent
Intent is magnetic For a few years now, I’ve been holding to the intention of living the dream of this land and following through on the guidance I’m receiving. Sometimes it feels like trying to apply mascara while riding a…
Wild Juicing
Foraging for weeds Whatever the weather, our day starts with walking the dogs and (sometimes with cats in tow) and sometimes foraging for weeds. We are lucky to live in an area where there is no intensive farming, no crop…
