The Green Parent
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23 Oct 2012
Our top ten alternative Halloween celebrations
Do something different this year at Halloween or Samhain. Check out our top ten alternative celebrations and enjoy storytelling, fire juggling, pumpkin carving and lantern parading. Visitors to the Love Food Halloween Festival in Bristol can even make some bat bunting whilst sampling global street food, whilst those in Liverpool might catch a glimpse of talking stags and dancing wolves at the Lantern Festival in Sefton Park. […] more
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19 Oct 2012
Eight ways to celebrate Samhain
Samhain (pronounced sow’ain) is the precursor to today’s Halloween, an ancient Celtic festival honouring the ancestors that came before us. It is believed that at this time of year the veil between this life and the Otherworld are at their thinnest, meaning that connection and communication with the dead is easier. To our modern ears, this may sound morbid – or downright scary – but Pagans respected death as a normal and natural part of our journey. The fact that Samhain became Halloween – a day for getting dressed up in our most frightening and ghoulish costumes – means we mostly forget to mark this time of year with a deep, intuitive respect for the cycles of life. […] more
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17 Oct 2012
Seed Gathering Sunday
Every Autumn, an artist friend of ours comes to our garden to gather a bunch of dried seed heads to draw. She loves to have them in her studio, and uses them to inspire her work at this time of year. She’s right – seed heads are strikingly beautiful in our gardens, woodlands and hedgerows, and look especially wondrous from a child’s-eye perspective! Added to their beauty is the fact that each little seed holds the potential for new life. Nature’s artistry abounds when these seed heads fall to the ground, spend a winter resting in the dark earth, and burst forth as new growth in the spring. […] more
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1 Aug 2012
Get crafty at Lammas
Lammas is the traditional Celtic Harvest Festival, beginning at sundown on 31st July in the Northern Hemisphere. It celebrates the wheat harvest, the food that would sustain us throughout the winter months, and the grain that would become next year’s crop, thus continuing the cycle of life. Check out our ideas for celebrating with your family. […] more
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5 Jul 2012
Grow a cherry tree
Did you know that Britain imports over 95% of its cherries? Cherry Aid, an off-shoot of Food Lovers Britain, aims to change that. This year, on National Cherry Day - 16th July - they are encouraging you to support the Great British Cherry by planting, growing and eating! […] more
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