Goddess in the Greenhouse
She’s just starting to awaken outside. Where we live in the upper Ottawa Valley, the winter was late in coming and there hasn’t been much snow, but it has been long, hard and cold with no warm spells. Even so, this time of year around the new moon of february, you can feel the spring.…
Labrador Tea
Labrador tea is the younger cousin of Sweetgale and Bearberry. She is very different in character as indicated by Her distinct wooly leaves and stunning complex white flower clusters. Traditionally She is harvested after this beautiful flowering through too when the first frosts have come to the northern Boreal areas where She grows. Earlier she…
Herbal Facial Toner
It is an ongoing inspiration here at the Sacred Gardener to find new ways to bring more of the vitality and vibrancy of the warmer days into our winters. It can bring such peace and calm to a day, just to open a jar of canned tomatoes, make a dressing with our herbal vinegar or make tea…
Sweetgale… Wise Old Grandmother
Sweetgale is the wise old grandmother. She’s one of the weavers who made this land. Her roots hold the land close like a basket, like a nest, not giving Earth away to the sweeping fingers of the water along shorelines. Her sweet comforting aroma invites us in to sleep safely on her shores. I met…
Shedding Skin
The bite of a young winter seems to have finally taken hold of the land, after a March-like holiday season. My little joke for the holidays has been that our “culture” lives in crocks and jars in the root cellar, happily canned or fermenting away, not in the shopping malls and big box stores. Our…
Wild Seed Flour
The frosts came heavy and quick this year. Gardeners are among the first to admit there is mercy in a quick death; less time to worry. And while much of the annual garden has met its end, the surrounding landscape is ablaze with brightness and dancing colours. One of the gardens here at the farm…
35 years of seeding earth wisdom
