Honouring the Winter Sun
by Danu Forest Winter is here, and with it the sun sinks to its lowest arc upon the horizon upon the winter solstice. This year the winter solstice falls on the 21st of December. Solstice […]
2016
Samhain – Letting Go
by Danu Forest The Celtic festival of Samhain, otherwise known as Halloween (October 31st) can be one of the most beautiful times of the year, as the leaves turn and the first frosts dust the […]
Reaping and Sowing at the Autumn Equinox
by Danu Forest This article first appeared on Watkins Publishing. Autumn is here. The first of the leaves are turning, and the hedgerows swell with berries. In Somerset, my tiny village in the midst of […]
Permaculture Convergence 2016
Geoff and Nadia Lawton will be attending the UK’s PermacultureConvergence, which takes place on 2-4 September 2016 at Nell Bank, Ilkley, West Yorkshire. It is a rare opportunity to meet one of the world’s most […]
Alternative ‘Nobel Prize’ For Permaculture
Stuart Muir Wilson, the grandson of permaculture founding father Bill Mollison, has recently received The Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Prize, for his “outstanding vision and work on behalf of the planet […]
Celtic festival of Lughnasadh – The Goddess of Harvest
Danu Forest on the traditional Celtic festival of Lughnasadh that is marked on August 1st. As July turns to August, summer takes on a lazier, richer air, as natures abundance overflows along the hedgerows and […]
Summer Solstice Lore, Gods and Faeries by Danu Forest
The summer solstice will occur on the 20th of June this year, when the days are at their longest. During this time the sun seems to ‘stand still’ in its most north-easterly position at sunrise […]
Lessons from the goat farm
In 1986 Shann Nix Jones was an ambitious journalist in San Francisco who went undercover in the high schools to do a story about the budget cuts in education—a story that Drew Barrymore later turned […]
The Art Of Not Doing
From Tao Te Ching, © Frances Lincoln Ltd 2015, translation & foreword © Stephen Mitchell 1988 Almost nothing is known about Lao Tzu, except that he may have been an older contemporary of Confucius (55-479 […]