It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food ForestI wonder though, how they will keep Big-Ag from poisoning it one way or another with their vast arsenal of poisons for plants, bugs and animals ( Read more... )

Lammas is when I feel the exhaustion of production...that first thought of "Gods I need to sit down and REST!!!"  Or at least that is what I normally feel about this time of year.  This is a time when if you have a garden, every day brings some blessing of abundance from the green world.  It is also the time when forgetting to water just once can ( Read more... )

Ever go for a good portion of time believing something and then find out it’s just a misunderstanding, a lack of appropriate information, or the result of an outright lie -sometimes all three?  With the exception of the last, most times it’s harmless and easily correctible, but it can be embarrassing if you have passed on the information thinking ( Read more... )

Herbal and Magickal Household Practices

by Gaia IvoryWitch

Garden Variety Banishment and Blessing

Before I move into a place I go and do a 'banishing and blessing'.  This takes care of latent energies but it does not address 'spirits of place' that may predate my habitation.  Those are accepted as part of the house and no attempt is made to 'banish' ( Read more... )

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I cannot begin to explain how much I am just in awe...that there are others, who are this crazy about the land they live on.  It's like a love affair.  And being torn from my own bit of land, is painful, excruciatingly so...and this is the only thing I have ever read anywhere that comes anywhere close to describing ( Read more... )

Today was an absolutely beautifully cloudless, gorgeous day worthy of Spring...which, according to MY calendar, has not yet arrived.  Mother Nature apparently has other ideas.  She can be a fractious ol' Bitch...well, that's what I call her when she bitchslaps us back into the middle of Winter just after we have taken our tender seedlings out to ( Read more... )

Heh.  Sometimes I just don't get it.  I have several bad days in a row followed by several good days in a row...and sometimes they alternate one right after the other.  All this combines to make the folks I Iive with doubt that I am sick (I use that term loosely) at all...well, most of the time.

Recently, I've been revisited by cervicocentric ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been a bit on the lost side.  There are several issues weighing very heavily on my mind these days, and NONE of them are anything I can wait to figure out what to do about.  None of them are really solvable in the normal fashion, in that, I really can't do much to change what's going on or make it any better, I just have to suffer ( Read more... )

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