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Along the Atlantic, Dunboyne (2026)

20/10/2025

✨️Nature's retinol, and your one stop shop for healthy, glowing skin and hair throughout the winter months, plus it's fantastic for wound care. A simple two ingredient herbal remedy: calendula and castor oil.
✨️Calendula is edible and the blooms, stems, and leaves are also medicinal. Evidence of calendula being used in ancient medicine goes back to the Mayans, Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. Prized for her abilities to heal wounds with her antiseptic, and antimicrobial properties, calendula was also used in field hospitals across Europe during the World Wars. Calendula is rich in vitamins A (nature's retinol) C, and E making her a great herb for acne, scar reduction, and dry skin. Furthermore, this brilliant beauty is anti-inflammatory making her a great choice for reducing arthritis, joint pain, as well as bruise reduction.
✨️Castor oil, due to it's fatty acid structure, is an oil that deeply enters the skin's layers and is easily absorbed by the body. (Hexane free, castor oil, only please. No one needs chemical solvents pulsing through their veins.) In and of itself, castor oil helps the body produce it's own collagen, is anti-inflammatory and moisturizes the skin. It also helps reduce free radicals, is antibacterial, and helps hair, eye lashes, and eyebrows grow stronger and healthier.
✨️ Roughly chop calendula's flowers, stems, and leaves into a glass jar, pour the castor oil over top and step in a warm, dark area for approximately 6 weeks. After that, strain the plant matter and enjoy this simple and highly effective ancient herbal remedy from the comfort of your own home.

23/01/2025

A little red mushroom for a red weather warning in Ireland. Stay safe and warm, friends!
The Scarlet Elf Cap (or the Ruby Elf Cup) is an edible mushroom that appears most often on decaying trees in the woodlands. I found this gathering of caps growing next to the wild garlic. The fruiting bodies of the Scarlet Elf cap come out in Spring as opposed to Autumn when many other mushrooms are visible. While there is not an abundance of stories or lore about these beauties, they do get their name from the belief that the Good People would drink the morning dew from the Elf Cups or possibly even use them for a quick morning wash before the sun had fully risen. Some Native American peoples were said to apply the Scarlet Elf Cup to open wounds to staunch an active bleed and to prevent infection. These mushrooms are considered edible lightly cooked. I didn't harvest the Elf Cups pictured as there were no others in close enough proximity to forage them ethically.

12/01/2025

Winter dreams and packets of possibility. I generally prefer to embrace each uniquely precious season as it comes, without yearning for a different one. Wintering and resting, tending our roots that thrive out of view, in the dark, and resisting the guilt that comes with a slower, winter's pace is a necessary and sacred task. What delight then, I find, in making winter plans for spring: seedlings, warm, wet earth, and soil beneath my fingernails. In a time of rest, I embrace possibilities in the form of seed packets and it doesn't disrupt my wintering. May we all mirror nature, insofar as we are able, and feel neither guilt nor shame, in leisure times with winter dreams. I'm particularly excited with these heirloom variety herb and flower seeds from My first time using. Using these seeds. Obviously.

06/01/2025

Nollaig na mBan, Woman's Christmas, Epiphany, Little Christmas, and Old Christmas. In Ireland, as well as parts of Appalachia where strong Irish and Scottish roots exist, women would celebrate a day for themselves. In times past, men would handle the work of the house that traditionally fell to the women of the home, leaving them free to make merry amongst each other. While this might feel trite by today's standards, at it's origins Nollaig na mBan was anything but. Interestingly there exists in the Irish folk tradition a prophecy that holds the end of the world shall occur on Epiphany. Indeed, on January 6, 1839, Ireland experience one of the worst storms in it's recorded history and many believed that they were in fact witnessing the end. This infamous natural disaster was named, Oíche na Gaoithe Móire, The Night of the Great Wind. The January morn dawned clear and still, followed by heavy snows and as the weather fronts changed from low to high, temperatures rose, resulting in heavy rain and widespread flooding. Hurricane force winds raged destroyed thousands of buildings. Gaining strength the storm continued on into January 7th. All told, several hundred people lost their lives on land, while over forty ships were wrecked at sea. Rich in history and lore, Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas) is a fitting end to the festive season, providing a blaze of glory with which to end the Christmas festivities.

06/01/2025

Happy Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany marking, in times past, the end of Christmastide. On this twelfth night after Christmas the Irish would light twelve candles and often prepared a feast with good food and drink. Fruit cakes were a favourite as well. Wassail (a warm, spicy beverage similar to mulled wine) was drunk and in some parts of the world you could go wassailing - singing carols at neighbours homes and hopefully be invited in for a drink. Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night' takes place during the end of Christmastide, possibly Epiphany (which is tomorrow) and is full of riotous merry making indicative of the Christmas festivals. The final story in James Joyce's work 'Dubliners', titled 'The Dead' begins at a Twelfth Night party and continues on into the early hours of the following day. So here's to another celebration on the eve of Epiphany - Twelfth Night, may it be merry and bright and full of good cheer!

02/01/2025

The essence, to me, of a new year, be it January the first, Samhain, Advent, a birthday, a Monday, a new moon, or season, etc., is less about the resolutions or the pressure, or the even the burden of newness and change. It is, by my reckoning, more about the possibility of a fresh moment in time. It is allowing ourselves to grieve, to pause, to rejoice, to reflect, to laugh, to acknowledge, and begin the beautiful spiral once more into a space that we have yet to dwell in. Marking these moments carries significance. May we all come to treasure love and peace, family and friends, may we light a match in dark places, tend our earth, and seek the truth that dwells within us. I write with deep gratitude for friendship and family, here's to nourishing our roots.

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21/12/2024

Winter Solstice. Usually I write about root work, dwelling in the deepest, longest night of the year, sacred work being done below and beyond human vision, or embracing the darkness. And rightly so. However there's a festive element to this solstice too. A riotous festivity. In fact, it's an oft-chaotic kind of merriment, inverting cultural and societal norms, accompanied by boundless generosity, days and nights of feasting and drinking and gifting. Out of the bleak midwinter is born mirth, the belly of the cosmos reverberates and it spills into the human spirit. Looking back to Ancient Roman this period was marked by the feast of Saturnalia. Dedicated to the sun god Saturn and lasting for several days the celebrations were of a rather epic nature. During 6th century there arose the celebration of Christmas, not as a single day but as twelve days, each marked with prayers, feasting, drinking and merriment. The tradition of electing the Lord of Misrule, or the boy bishop, ensured that norms were lifted and celebrants were free to exercise excitement and entertain themselves with a jovial poke to local authorities, civil and religious. Today, of course, Christmastide and Saturnalia are not what they used to be, our world is different. However, if you can, in whatever way possible, gather together and harken back to that ancient merriment. The winter solstice and the Christmas season are finally upon us once again. So happy solstice, friends: make merry, make mischief, deviate and celebrate.

20/12/2024

Today is the eve of the Winter Solstice, an astronomical event that has been celebrated in Ireland for thousands of years, evidenced most remarkably at Newgrange. The solstice marks the longest night of the year with the rising of the sun illuminating the innermost chamber of Newgrange. In early times the stark winter months were said to be ruled by the Holly King while the Oak King ruled the summer. To mark the winter solstice the Celtic people would bring evergreens into their homes or place them over their thresholds. Popular evergreens included holly and ivy. These branches were thought to protect against evil, bring prosperity to the household and welcome the dark Holly King's annual arrival. Other cultures, such as the ancient Romans had similar practices. Most of us are familiar with the carol 'The Holly and the Ivy... the rising of the sun, the running of the deer...'. In medieval times the holly and ivy came to symbolise the Christ Child and the Virgin Mother. Again holly and ivy were called upon during the Christmas season to offer cheer and a festive spirit, marking the Incarnation and often adorning churches and alters. On the eve of the winter solstice may we remember the growth that occurs in the dark, strong, roots, sustaining life just beyond our line of vision. And perhaps the stories and symbolism of these evergreens can continue to hold wonders for another generation.

17/12/2024

December 15th witnessed the final full moon of the year 2024. Technically a full moon only lasts for a handful of minutes, however, to the naked eye, the moon appears to be full a few days prior to, and post, the actual celestial occurrence. December's full moon goes by several names, such as the Longest Night Moon. This title is given to the last full moon before the winter solstice, which is the longest night of the year. In Europe this full moon was called Moon Before Yule harkening to the ancient practice of celebrating Yule during the heart of winter's darkest days. The Celts are said to have called the December full moon, Oak Moon. The Farmer's Almanac gives names to the full moons that, perhaps, are most familiar to us. These names were taken from the Indigenous Native American of North America. December's full moon is called Cold Moon, Snow Moon, and Frost Exploding Trees Moon, to name a few. Almanacs date back to Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek ancient civilizations and were used to predict (with various degrees of success) solar and lunar events, weather, tides, etc. The Midieval period added divination to the almanacs, while those of today often add folklore and healing practices. Lore on the moon, particularly when full, is prolific and nearly every nation, in every age, and in every corner of the earth, has a wealth of wisdom, reverence, awe, fear, trepidation, superstition or practices surrounding this celestial body. If skies are clear this eve, look up, the Longest Night Moon is a beauty and still appears full. Bask in the afterglow.

11/12/2024

Gathering the sun in the darkest month. During the darkest months of the year, humans have traditionally sought warmth and light indoors. Beyond the primal instinct for warmth and light, we, however unconsciously, seek to replicate the sun within our own dwellings. The hearth begins to roar radiating a comforting blaze. We strike a match to light candles, sometimes placing them in our windows, relishing the illuminations casting back the lengthening shadows. Fire, some historians believe, was one pivotal factor that enabled humans to surrender a more nomadic life, to gather and take up roots, creating small villages and hamlets. Even if we today do not have a hearth, or the ability to kindle fires within our homes, the desire to replicate, with primal elements, that which we are missing in the sky, remains.

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