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Three simple practices to reconnect with the living world this May The May is officially out! And if you can do nothing else right now, whether it’s raining or shining, make sure you take a big, happy, thankful breath of this May air! Enjoy your connection with every other breathing, respiring, transpiring, photosynthesising life-form out there - it’s all truly miraculous and you are an essential knot in that glorious net. Threshold time! Across the world, the annual flow int

At times when every unthinkable news story seems to top the last, we can get the increasing sense that collectively our breath is catching in our upper chest, as though we’re heading for a panic attack. We need to breathe. An in-breath activates our fight-or-flight mechanism - our autonomic nervous system. The out-breath then activates our parasympathetic nervous system - release, rest and digest. In the normal way of things we’d be in perfect balance: flex and release, tight

It’s 29th September - Michaelmas - and an absolutely beautiful morning: misty, sunlight easing through the mists and lighting up the...

Even up here in the North-East UK the heat has been a bit much this week! Show yourself some love (ice-cream, definitely) as well as your little bit of outside, whatever you have. Here are three ideas to try on your ancestral acres or little city balcony! Bees really appreciate a wet mossy stone in hot weather Provide - for the bees Bees can struggle to find safe and accessible water sources, which quickly evaporate in the heat, and they frequently drown when desperation to d

Here we are, at the end of July, at the first of the old Celtic harvest festivals: Lughnasadh. Up here in Northumberland, on the gorsey, piney uplands nature’s party poppers are going off in abundance as myriad seedpods release their pre-sprouting babies into the world. It’s a party! From sharp wild sorrel and the first of the field mushrooms to the prolific wild raspberries giving way to the first luscious blackberries, Earth is generously giving away countless seasonal trea