The start of Michaelmas season - harvest

Harvest moon and autumn equinox last week..
Around the farm all the crops have been harvested, the hay baled, and stacked for the pigs bedding to last until next harvest.


We've been collecting dry firewood from the woodland floor, we've had our first fire in the woodburner. Three beautiful organic sheep fleeces are stored and I need to to sort through and wash those. We've been harvesting foods from the wild - rosehips, sloes, hawthorn berries, crab apples, apples, nettles to dry, hazelnuts, walnuts, blackberries.


We've been harvesting beans, corn and squash from our Three Sisters patch...


Harvest - Dorothy Hancock

'Now all the farmers from far and wide
Have gathered their bounty of countryside:
Corn and barley from field and wold,
Honey from beehive and wool from the fold,
Fruit from the orchard all ripe, red and gold,
Log for the fire to keep out the cold.'

Today we prepared a wild food autumn pudding and set it in the fridge for 24 hours. I hope it works out!


And with our harvesting done, we take note of the chill in the air and the shortening days, we turn to the season of Michaelmas which lasts for four weeks - to strengthen our will, do good deeds, be courageous and brave, think of new tasks to begin and shine brightly from within. Throughout the season of Michaelmas.


Wet felted dragon.

Leaf dragon.

And St Michael.

And tomorrow, dragon bread and we'll do something each day after that throughout the season whether it be story, verse, play, craft, baking, deed..