Sauerkraut is one of my favourite ways to eat cabbage – not the bought bottled or canned sauerkraut that’s been pasturised and lost it’s living probiotics, but the homemade kind. Sauerkraut uses a natural lactic fermentation process that not only helps store cabbage for longer, it enhances it’s nutrient value including vitamin C and K, […]
12 Useful Herbs for your Garden Apothocary
Here are 12 common and exceptionally useful herbs that no garden should be without. I value each of these herbs as essential for my garden apothecary, for basic first aid, treating simple ailments, as well as for their culinary or edible uses. Some of these plants, gardeners consider weeds, while others are planted and nurtured […]
Everything Cycles – Microcosm to Macrocosm
In Celtic philosophy, the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm, everything cycles, and there are cycles within cycles– the times of day, annual seasonality of the earth, stages of the human lifecycle, to astronomical cycles of sun and moon spanning decades and longer time frames. The diagram below maps some of these cycles and their […]
The Celtic Eightfold Year
The Eight Stations of the Year for the Southern Hemisphere As the earth cycles the sun on its annual journey, the respective seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are created by the tilt of the earth’s axis. Thus the key pivotal quarters of the solar cycle are the solstices and equinoxes, which determine the […]
Sunwise and Widdershins in the Southern Hemisphere
Solar Orientation The ancient Celts understood the significance of the sun in driving the seasons and energising life. We now know through science that all life on earth is fueled by solar energy, that plants through photosynthesis use solar energy and in turn feed the animal kingdom, create fertile soil humus, influence local climatic conditions […]