by ashevillewitch | Oct 5, 2015
I returned this morning from the Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference. I fed the chickens, unloaded the car, checked the community garden and took a hot shower. This conference is an old favorite of mine. I used to volunteer there but started teaching and...
by ashevillewitch | Aug 22, 2014
Working in the gardens I tend is excellent exercise, provides healthy fresh food and affords me more opportunities to touch the sacred soil. I came away this morning from a general clean-out of beds in the Summer garden and was a sweaty, stinky mess. The wheel barrow...
by ashevillewitch | Jul 7, 2014
Where I come from bones are not dry. Bits of flesh cling to them, torn by hungry teeth. Bones are greasy, tasty, marrowful. They pile up in the center of the table in a big cracked bowl and the sturdy ones–the steak and pork chop bones–go to the...
by ashevillewitch | Jul 31, 2012
I don’t celebrate the Saxon “Loaf-mas”/Lammas but I do bake something yummy for this holy day. Pretty lucky today to have some cool weather in which to ply this craft. I’ll make traditional Irish soda bread and plan to take some butter out of...
