Today, at the Whangarei Grower's Market, an enormous bag of saucy tomatoes winked at me from the corner of a stall. The humble brown bag was filled with ripe, luscious, and slightly edgy red fruit. Almost every tomato was flawed: scarred, overripe, burst open and damaged. I love a project that can help me be…
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First and foremost, this is a practical post about drying herbs. But, it is also about boundaries. Because if you grow herbs, you will know they sometimes need a reminder about minding their own business. And that's what I will be covering today, along with some hints and tips to help you along your herb…
All Plums are under Venus. Culpepper's Complete Herbal
This is a recipe for making Black Doris Plum Jam, and it's also a post about gratitude. As the quote from Culpepper notes, plums have very feminine energy and are associated with love and protection. For example, according to Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (1998: P80), branches were…
When you hear the word altar, what comes to mind? A low-budget horror where someone is about to be sacrificed? An occult Instagram hashtag with tarot cards and candles?
But what if altars were moments. Sacred spaces inside places where you stop and take time to venerate, commemorate, celebrate - maybe even reflect on something…
Propagating String of Pearls plants and learning about invocation along the way.