Plant stories

please share - a wonderful opportunity to learn from some amazing herbalists. Prices flexible due to needs.

These two zones can be called the Temperate climate regions and Mediterranean climate regions. Certain plants are indicators of these two regions, almonds being one of them, and olives being the other. Basically, if you can grow plenty of olives and almonds you are in the Mediterranean belt. There is a distinctly different feel to living in these regions, characterised by much sunnier, drier weather,warmer generally all year round. In many ways, growing staple vegetables like beetroot, carrots and potatoes are easier in the temperate regions, the main advantage being that you don’t have to water. The key disadvantage to these regions is that fruit and tree crops in general are much less plentiful. These two distinct differences in climate give rise to distinctly different cultures and cultural practices. 

This year I am running intuitive plant medicine courses at Coed Hills rural art Space. See website for details .

Beautiful herbal medicine retreats in south wales this summer. follow link on flier to find out more details.

The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago... the second best time is now.... If you are prepared for it! Tis the fruit tree planting time.  

Planting of the wellow apple tree. #ediculture #stephenspermaculture #localorganicfoodinitiatives #indigenousfarming #organicculture #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #agroforestry #agroecology #organichorticulture (at Sheffield)

A video I made on my trip to Zimbabwe, January 2015. 

cooking preparations.. 

a bed of oca - New vegetable on the circuits... 

a brief trip to Avebury Stone Circle with Lenka. 

Happy spring days Stringing up peas... 

Some photos from Meersbrook allotment 2015

Here is a growing video my mate Pete made, promoting grow your own in sheffield, 

crooked line against the pale blue sky.

- Alternatively, you can blend after cooling (stage 6), and then strain. you get more extracted out of the herb. 

Ancestors, and guides from the beyond, you who have gone before me who know the trials of life and who's kindness and compassion I feel holding me and surrounding me - please grant me this wish: help me to be fully myself. Gift me the time to do what I have come here to do, to share the gifts of my soul with this beautiful world before it is too late, and I run out of time. Help me to follow my dreams without delay, and grant me the space to create what only I can uniquely make, to craft with my own two hands the truth that I have lived and experienced, have been here and reaped and sown something of the spirit of which I am only a small part in some greater play. And bless me with the awareness of my vital contribution to the whole of life despite being but a drop in the infinite ocean of life. And help me to know that just as each part contains the whole, so the whole contains each part, and so once I am reunited with that infinite ocean, I can still be remembered when I am gone.

will be the right choice, and know that all will be well.