Spiritual journeys in tending the living earth, permaculture, and nature-inspired arts
One of my favorite times of the year is spring–when the land is awakening, and the green is returning! Beltane is here! Here in the Allegheny mountains, one of our folk herbal traditions is to “thicken” the blood in the …
Weeds. The term conjures up images of plants that are unwanted and unloved, the bane of the township “noxious weed ordinances” and suburbanites, and the quiet recipient of so many unfounded assumptions. Yet these are the plants that are the …
One of the great things about fall is that so many of our spring ephemeral plants, those who dominate the springtime, come back to us again before the snows set in. This is the case this year with chickweed, one …