Category: Plant Medicine
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Calling all geeks and nerds.
Repost from @bmorebata 🦊 Calling all geeks and nerds!Community Geekouts are back!! And we’ve got some major offerings for Lúnasa: 🐰🎓a profile on another one of our animal mentors (Ithink you can guess which one) with @bridgingappalachia 🫒🍁an epic intro to three different tree families withwith a shared trait and entwined histories with @brighidthebard,…
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~Day 9/10/11
🧈 Stone Carving with @victordalystonecarver 🧈 Saint Finbarr Cemetery, Bantry 🧈 Butter-making with Max Jones @uptherethelast 🧈 @waters_wild perfumery 🧈 Levis Corner House, Ballydehob 🧈 Closing circle #livingtraditions#stonecarving#buttermaking#booleying#pints
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 7/8
🪨 Healy Pass 🐑 [pic 2] 🪨 Stone Circle @ Uragh w/ ceremony by Deirdre Wadding of @coiresois [pic 1,3,4] 🪨 Lunch in Kenmare [pic 5] 🪨 Storytelling with Deirdre Wadding 🪨 Willow basketry with @belongingtothewillows [pic 7,8,9] 🪨 The Art of Storytelling workshop with Deirdre Wadding
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 5/6
🌿 Moving house from Slieve Aughty to Glengarriff with a quick stop to sing with the Yews in Killarney [not pictured] 🎶
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 3/4
🌈 Líos na Gránisí Stone Circle and Lough Gur with sacredsitesofireland ~ fabulous storytelling & meditation with accompanying rain and rainbow 🌈 Amazing food and trad @ Peppers Bar & Restaurant ~ Feakle 🌈 Lovely seaweed and hedgerow foraging talk with @wildkitchen_lahinch followed by an incredible foraged lunch 🌈 Fascinating harpmaking demo…
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 1/2
🌿opening circle with offerings to the sidhe 🌿strawcraft with Melanie Lorian of Cailleach’s Cottage 🌿 @slieveaughtycentre 🌿 Inis Oírr 🌿 Crios weaving demo w/ Mairtín Ó Conghaile @cleasinisoirr 🌿 St Gobnait’s Church 🐝 🌿 wildflower walk with @aedinot 🪻
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Tending the Wild – Cuid a Dó
Such an incredible time connecting with the land in Dún na nGall these last few days.
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Tending the Wild – Cuid a Haon
Spending the week 🌱🍄 Tending the Wild 🪸🌾 with @wildawakeireland – having a lovely time at @thesonghouse and out on the land and sea in #donegal 🌿
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Blackthorn & Folk Medicine Geekout
Repost from @bmorebata 🦊 🌿The wood most associated with bataireacht and the bataí, the weapons, we use is an draighean (the Blackthorn). Tho it’s not the only wood or even the oldest wood associated with shillelagh (sail éille) fighting, an draighean is the most well known.And we want to help you get…
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Relationships with Blackthorn in Irish Folk Medicine Tradition
Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa (Latin) or Draighean (Irish) is a thorny, deciduous shrub or small tree, natively distributed across Europe, West Asia and North Africa, which has a long tradition of plant-human interactions in a folk medicine context. In the spirit of right relationship with the landscape and Blackthorn as an…
Bridging Appalachia 