Teacher Trees – Part 1
This time of year, when all my garden friends and wild herbs have called it for the season, I spend a lot of time with …
Writing
The Meaning and Gift of Worrying
While this post is not about Covid in particular, it is about an equally contagious and devastating related illness. This illness is called ‘worrying’. Worrying …
Colonization, Gods, Goddesses and Three Alchemic Realms
The elemental descriptions of our cosmos that we lived with for tens of thousands of years still hold true in profound ways. In turning away …
Echinacea, Snake Root and Snake Oil
By Steven Martyn I’ve come to have a good nose for sniffing out ‘the hidden goods’ of our past amongst the post-modern carnage that surrounds …
Spells, Pumpkins and the Deep Mystery of Being
By Steven Martyn Our whole lives we are guided away from the mystery and the magic. Driven away, like sheep from a gate leading to …
Fall Equinox
As we step through the gate that is the fall equinox (sept 21) it seems here at the farm this year, more than most years, …
Maple Sugaring
Last year, for the first time in thirty years or so, I set up a new sugaring pan in a new forest. What I found …
Grandfather Mullein, The Tall One with Bright Yellow Eyes
I was working with that grand old master Mullein on this misty morning. It wasn’t hot and sunny enough to be harvesting any of the …
Sophie and the Wolves
Every year, at this time of year I feel we are aligned with the beginning and the end of time. For the Algonquin people in …
Eyebright
We’re just coming up on February and it’s been a long cold winter already. Since I finished the shell on the timber frame I’ve been …