Thanks to a local friend, I heard about a gathering this weekend in the nearby town of Forest Row. As good fortune would have it, I was able to go along despite the short notice and I am so glad I did. The purpose of the gathering: to talk about soil health and compost. Surprisingly […]
Tomorrow, April 22nd 2025, is International Mother Earth Day. A resolution adopted in 2009 by the United Nations, it was a Day to recognise the Earth and its ecosystems as humanity’s common home. It emphasised a need to protect her, counteract climate change and to stop the collapse of biodiversity. Looking at how things have […]
Who we choose to spend time with has a massive impact of our experience of the world, so we must choose wisely. Spending time with those who make us feel seen, heard and appreciated enables us to grow into who we wish to be. ‘The only person you are destined to become is the person […]
Sometimes we need to hear something several times before we actually ‘hear’ it and the message sinks in. Perhaps we need to be personally or spiritually ready to take on the information; the first few times we hear the words, but they float past and don’t seem to stick or change anything. The fact that […]
Happily, the piglets arrived this week! For weeks I have looked at the sows’ ever-expanding bellies thinking ‘it must be today’ and being disappointed at being wrong every day. But on Wednesday the first sow, Thelma, made a nest of straw outside, under the trees in dappled sunlight and gave birth to 12 adorable piglets. […]
When does a hunch become a knowing? How do we learn to trust our gut instinct? These are two questions I have been pondering this week. Certainly for many of us, myself included, we have not been encouraged or taught how to listen to and trust our instinct. Most of us make decisions by weighing […]
