The big news this Moonth has been ACORNS. This amazing food source is available to us for free, wherever there are oak trees. Our European ancestors relied on them for carbohydrates, thousands of years before wheat ever made an appearance. If you are lucky enough to have a...
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In Celtic tradition it isn’t summer until the hawthorns bloom. Keeping to schedule, the local hawthorns bloomed mid-May. We had a terrible ice storm a few years ago and my Irish hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) raised from seed I brought back from Uisneach in county Meath, finally recovered enough...
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OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR I wrote this in 2002 but it is still relevant for today. As the light of summer wanes the tides of war are licking at our feet; bombing raids are in full force again in the Middle East. Here in...
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