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Apple Folklore & Avalon Stories

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Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 19th September, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Apple Folklore & Avalon Stories exploring apples and their traditions for survival, inspiration, and wisdom I am passionate about Apple folklore, probably my own favourite folklore. I find a bite into a fresh crispy apple is always enchanting and always sets off my imagination. Does this happen with you? We will adventure into ancient apple symbolisms of life, nourishment, and survival. Also included will be fairy stories and enchanting goddess stories where apples and apple trees are a central within them, and even serpents among them too. The intimate connections between water, sacred wells, and apple trees will be entered into also. Apple celebrations in Ireland will be introduced, including the return of the Lovely Leitrim Apple Day, and the fun and inspiring Clonmel Apple Fest. During this Nature F

Tree Sanctuaries Autumn Gathering 2021

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Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 12th September, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Tree Sanctuaries Autumn Gathering support for Your Tree Sanctuary desires A time and opportunity to recap on where we are with our Tree Sanctuaries and Tree Sanctuary ideas. This is a time when trees are truly turning colour around us in many places where we live. It is also a time we start to think about and plan our next tree planting season between November and March. This year I will talk about changes that I feel we need to make regarding our attitude and expectations of Tree Planting.  This includes encouraging nature's own regeneration planting and not being in such a rush or over ambitious with our own planting.                                                                                                                                     This also serves as a follow up to our March 'Us An

Harvest Home Gathering 2021

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Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 5th September, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Harvest Home Gathering an Autumn Celebration Gathering A social interactive online session. The focus will be on discussions and presentations of harvests from our gardens that we 'bring home'. We can include what we are cooking, making, and baking too. Also how we are storing, preserving, drying, and what we are looking forward to with food and social times, and survival, from now until next Spring. Please volunteer to be a guest focused on you garden harvest, food storing and preparing, and any other natural preparing for the upcoming winter. As a guest you can be live, or send me a pre-recorded video clip, or audio with photographs, or send me some photos and chat about them live with me next Sunday. Please message me to let me know what you can offer, thank you. Also, I would love to share your Ha