The Final Fruit ~ Apple,Hawthorn and Nootka Rosehip Butter ~ A Late Fall Heart Tonic

The leaves have changed.  My land is covered in a veil of fallen leaves, remnants of summers prime.  We are entering the darker time, the static withdrawal, the pause before the re-fruiting.  This is the transition time.  The apple trees still have a few ripe fruit clinging to their branches even though the leaves have turned yellow [...]

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Sweet Harvest-August’s Gathering

  It was sunny in the grove of cedars that surrounds Ellen’s magical home as we arrived last Friday.  We came bearing baskets full of peaches, plums and pears, dried figs, cherries and rose hips, jars of Oregon grape juice, bundles of sage and rosemary and handfuls of ripe salal berries.  This months gathering was [...]

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