Midsummer, or the summer solstice, is a good time to honour; the long days, when energy of all life seems to be at its peak. Celebrated for centuries, this is a festival of significance for many but has become less observed by the majority of us in more recent times. I decided this year […]
I missed a week of writing for the first time since I started this blog in January. Admittedly, 6 months isn’t that long to be doing this, not compared to some, but as much as I tried to compile something last week, I couldn’t find anything much to say. Last weekend we were part […]
A little over a year ago, I was on a course called Primal Gathering; about connecting people to the land and creating community. I learned a lot and enjoyed meeting like-minded souls all developing skills to better understand themselves and their environment. My biggest revelation was in one of the first workshops when we were […]
The change in weather this week has brought about a noticeable change in me. I hadn’t realised quite how tense I had felt from the incessant dry spell we have had. The crops, our first ever, now stand a chance of reaching maturity and thus, harvest. The grass should now be able to grow enough […]
Poised on the edge of the void, how do we let go of the known and step into the vast space of the unknown? Knowing we wish to create a shift, in ourselves, in our environment and in the world as a whole is one thing, but how do we actually do it? From birth […]
I have been avoiding writing this blog and watching myself come up with multiple excuses as to why I shouldn’t has been amusing. There hasn't been much going on around the farm that is worth writing about. There has been no rain, nothing is really growing, the animals are all just doing what they do […]
