Weaving Library
The Jays gifts of creation from all of their ‘mistakes’
Fear of making a mistake and how we praise the Jay for there's.
Oak trees and Jays have a special relationship that has been intertwined for thousands of years—it is thought that the only reason we have the famous Oak tree on the British Isles is the Jay. During the last ice age, the Oak tree, by acorn and gravity method, simply could not have moved up Europe quick enough before the English Channel formed. Something must have carried it over.
This union goes so deep that Jay's scientific name translates to 'babbling acorns'—if you have heard the Jay. The babbling part is self-exploratory, but the acorn runs deeper.
Unlock your garden's potential to be a sanctuary
It can feel depressing to look across our landscape and see how much of it is becoming a barren wasteland for life - to see endless scars and no place for anything other the relentless human conquest of more to call a home - but when in these downward spirals, what a lot of philosophical schools of thought have in common from their wise words is: 'focus on what you can control'.
Your garden is land you have direct control over - you are the caretaker, you are the steward - you are the one who decides how that land is shaped and nurtured. So what will it be, wasteland or ecosystem?
Dark past of the hedgerow and the caging of hawthorn
Hawthorn is the reminder of love, Community and wild spirit but she has dark past. Hedgerows were planted, Using Hawthorn's beautiful, loving, and wild free spirit to twist and cage her into a natural barrier to the wildland. Cutting 6.5 million acres of land from our ancestors, forcing them to disconnect from Mother Earth and work for the Industrial Revolution.