St. John’s Wort: The First Healer
|By Steven Martyn| I’ve been wildcrafting herbs for thirty-five years, and I still learn (or re-learn) many things every year. I seldom have alone time these busy summer days, and when I do it’s usually when I go to wildcraft a specific herb. As you may have experienced yourself, when we are alone out in…
Sacred Corn Mother (and a recipe to prepare Her)
|By Steven Martyn| Before I plant, I sit for a while to listen and talk to Her, the seeds and the land, where they will be planted. As I roll the black-blue, pearl-like seeds around in my hand like a rosary, singing my story and prayers into the ancient ones, She of a thousand faces…
Seed medicine stories of the carrot family
|By Steven Martyn| Spring is miraculously birthed from the Earth. From the smallest shoots can come gargantuan roots. Some of the parsnips we dug out recently were two feet long and four inches wide! Over fifty pounds of lovely sweet firm parsnips came from a small bed. Last fall, the bed was mulched, and left to overwinter.…
Honouring Spring’s Wild Food
|By Steven Martyn| April is a most bounteous time. The snow has finally receded, and the ground is thawing. The Earth, our virgin bride lay naked and sleepy eyed, cleansed and revitalized by the long, frozen sleep. And while the land looks washed out and barren, a feast is being prepared from hidden dimensions. Almost…
Laying down the Bones; making a rustic chair
|By Steven Martyn| These days everything seems to take me a long time to manifest. Kids, making a living, maintaining the farm, all demand a certain amount of time and energy, so getting to projects or developing new skills is low on the list of to-do’s. But, little by little, we come closer to living…
The Dreamer and the Artist
|By Steven Martyn| The night before last, I felt a little sick when I went to bed. That night I had an incredible dream. It was one of those long dreams that you wake up with a feeling of great loss, as a vital vivid world fades and you awaken into a dreamy blurred reality. In…
35 years of seeding earth wisdom
