As we get ready to enjoy (endure?) yet another heatwave, it’s a perfect time to realign with the celebrations of our near-ancestors. Around this time of year, they would gather in the first grain yield from the fields, baking ceremonial bread and getting geared up for the busy months of harvesting ahead. Most of us don’t have a field ofContinue reading “Welcoming Summer’s Stillness”
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Harvest and Holidays!
Lammas is usually celebrated on or around the 1st of August and it marks the cutting of the first corn or wheat. It’s a cross-quarter festival on the Wheel of the Year and whereas the solstices and equinoxes are precise astronomical events, the cross-quarter festivals are affected by climate and weather and vary considerably from placeContinue reading “Harvest and Holidays!”
Tracey Roberts 