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FotG met for our last Sunday of the month clean up in the Glen, after a break in July. There wasn’t much cleaning up to be done, any persistent rubbish is layered below the growth right now, and the surface stuff is under control. So we decide to shift our movements next month West toContinue reading “Bride Monday 30.08.21”

I have been picking from the hedgerows in passing and enjoying a tasty mouthful, not meaning to gather, just participating in a share of the abundance. I notice that the Blackberries are shrinking into little purple nuts on the vine and I so decide to gather some while they are juicy in the sun. TooContinue reading “Black Harvest Sunday 29.08.2021”

We have had an extended period of late summer sun, really glorious. I am preparing materials for a workshop I am planning for the Glen in September. Since hearing about the Alder grown for making charcoal at the Gunpowder Mills I have wanted to make some Alder charcoal for drawing. I’ve gathered both Alder andContinue reading “Fire Saturday 28.08.2021”

On the June bank holiday, after a couple of days in delirium I was admitted to the Mercy hospital with cellulitis from nettle stings and pond water, my lower leg was twice it’s normal girth, I could barely see my toes. Working with nettle fibres was a way of getting the connection back after theContinue reading “Nettles and time Wednesday 25.08.2021”

I have so many entries about this plant which graces the Glen with such majesty. Her sweeping stems uplifting to the sky and bending with the breeze just make me want to get airborne and sway with her. She is such a plant for our little valley, beginning low down and reaching for the sky,Continue reading “Rosebay Willow Herb again and again Wednesday 25.08.2021”

I go with a mission to put up the signs for next Sunday’s monthly FotG clean up. We missed July for a holiday. It’s hot I’m sleeveless and legless, loose in my dress feeling unshackled apart from the signs I’ve made, still wet under my arm. The Rosebay is happening in clouds of pink andContinue reading “Seed head summer breeze Tuesday 24.08.2021”

On Saturday, the tail end of heritage week we had a visitor to the Glen from The Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO), Catherine Seale-Duggan …(appropriately @>) came with her Kick test kit The kick tests involved scooping up river water in a net in three different places, dipping down deep into the river bed. EachContinue reading “River Water quality ~ Kick Test ~ 21.08.2021”

After a foraging walk with The Friends of the Glen I just woke up from falling alseep listening to this https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/corn-tastes-better/ and listening again; Hearing Kimmerer speak that gentle passionate word reciprocity – and her call for rematriation – a bringing back to mother earth, I am hearing about the evolution of maize, wife ofContinue reading “Plants and Reciprocity – more time with Robin Wall Kimmerer Sat 21.08 – Sun 22.08.2021”

So nettles…. into the Glen the season for picking is now for the fibres, after the flowering when the plants are mature. Only my second season for creating cordage from local plants. Looking for nettles that have long segments between leaves and without side shoots. I wear gloves and tear backwards along the stem toContinue reading “Nettles – August harvest”