The weather is growing colder and the nights become darker earlier. With the fall of leaves, the landscape changes and the trees appear skeletal. Their nakedness reveals other things within the landscape, things that are usually hidden, such as tussocks and hillocks and animal dens as well as the rocks and stones that are the …. Read More
Category: Mother Nature
Danu’s Irish Herb Garden – A Radical New Beginning!
For twelve years I have been working with and learning about medicinal plants in my study of herbal medicine. For the last seven years I have been learning from and journeying to plants and trees. I am now fully out of the closet – I am a herbalist. In today’s corporate world, a world of …. Read More
An Bhean Feasa – Growing Medicine
The wonderful warm weather (ok, hot) weather, has really helped my garden to bloom and blossom this summer. Last month I created a new vegetable bed using the “lasagne” method, building up a bed with layers of organic material. This is the bed newly planted on 7 June. This is the bed below, on 10 …. Read More
An Bhean Feasa – Beds, Bees and Ox-Eye Daisies!
I am so, so grateful for the wonderful weather we are having as I write this post. The garden is truly blossoming and I have been working outside every day, planting and re-potting and weeding, (although that last job will never be done!!!!) and making a new bed to accommodate all the seedlings that have germinated. This …. Read More
Springtime Simplicity
Today is La Feile Brigid – Brigid’s Day, a day that always feel special and exciting to me as it is also Imbolc, the first day of Spring. There is a sense of anticipation in the air which is exciting because it feels like a renewal, a fresh start, a change. I was at my horticulture …. Read More
The Sun Stands Still
Solstice literally means “sun stands still” for about three days. About ten days ago we had snow and sleet on the mountains. We had hope that we might get a “White Christmas” and a shining, sparkling Solstice but our hopes were dashed as temperatures rose again and we became engulfed in mist. The mist wrapped …. Read More
A Feminist Imperative! The Rise of The Divine Feminine.
Christmas is coming and at this time of year I sometimes think of the Holy Mother about to give birth. Nowadays, the Holy Mother for me is an archetype of the Divine Feminine. I have heard this term, The Divine Feminine in passing for the last ten years or so. What does it mean? Several definitions I …. Read More
Samhain – Summer’s End, Seed Fall
Happy Samhain Greetings! It is Summer’s End, the leaves have fallen from some of the trees and they are looking stark and bare. Other trees are changing their colours and brightening up the bleak landscape, adding yellows and oranges to the palette. One of the many Hawthorn trees on my road reveals its …. Read More
Wild and Free – Elemental Energy
MOTHER EARTH Thanks to the early moon missions we were able to see what our planet looked like from space. Our home, the extraordinarily beautiful planet, Earth. The impression this made on people at the time and since has been profound and certainly added energy to the then burgeoning environmental movement. Looking at this image …. Read More
“Plant Wisdom and The Goddess – Wise Woman Training”
One of my missions in life is to spread the word about the wisdom and healing power of plants. I want everyone to know how beneficial plants are when we are feeling unwell or out of sorts; if we have the ‘flu or we are feeling anxious. There is a plant remedy for every ailment …. Read More