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Since setting intentions at the spring equinox for the year ahead, things here have continued to flourish. We’ve replaced having pigs to having chicks: to produce ethically reared chicken, and we are now up to six stunning calves with more still a few more on the way.

This week I heard about an ancient ritual that gave me a noticeable, albeit tiny, glimmer of a distant recognition. It was the practice of saying a prayer into a stone, or a bone, and then binding the words using a cloth. These prayers were a way to make affirmations […]

A short blog this week. After a much needed break of 4 days away on a retreat, where I was well nurtured and am now feeling deliciously restored by healthy food, lovely people and multiple sessions of pilates, yoga, mediation and various healing sessions. What a blissful treat for which […]

The writing course that I have been doing online for the last 7 months, sadly finished this week. I decided last year to enrol onto the course with Animate Earth because every week as I sat down to write this blog, I had the same battle with my inner teenager […]

The brightness and the increased amount of light, every year provides an excitement and a lifting of spirits, both internal and external. An awakening from some sort of slumber, calm and required solitude, I enter this phase with a huge desire to share and gather people around me to celebrate […]

Despite knowing that during the winter months, if we choose to live in rhythm with the land, we should quieten ourselves, take time to rest our own energy system and nourish ourselves mentally and physically, I have not managed to achieve this at all this passing winter. Despite numerous attempts […]

I sense a deep connection to everything around me but have yet to access the messages that I perceive are held within. The water that makes up the majority of my body has been in existence since before the dinosaurs; that knowledge alone is enough to blow your mind when […]

Time seems to be moving so fast, yet this winter is taking absolutely ages to get to its end. I am normally quite accepting of whatever weather is happening, as long as I am appropriately dressed. But this year has tested my patience on accepting persistent rain. I cannot quite […]

  I highly recommend the book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is beautifully written and helps readers to weave indigenous wisdom into today’s thinking and I found it to be highly insightful. This week I came across a phrase from this book which I didn’t recall but it […]

Our land weeps for all the suffering She has endured, Deep wounds from abuse and scars cut from greed, She weeps from lack of respect, honour, love, gratitude, Taken for granted and given nothing in returnBut for poison, fumes, litter and neglect. She calls out now, grabbing our attention all […]