by ashevillewitch | Jun 9, 2013
No surprise to anyone in the southern Highlands that this has been an extraordinarily wet and cool springtime. I’ve been busy with lots of writing and presenting but that is only one reason I was so late in getting the garden planted this season. We’ve...
by ashevillewitch | May 31, 2013
In an effort to live a nice long life and not gain twenty pounds while writing my next book, I take a walk most days. (During the writing and publication of “Staubs and Ditchwater”, I did indeed gain 20 pounds. I have since lost my book “baby”...
by ashevillewitch | May 29, 2013
Since I was a little kid, I’ve planted by a simple set of guidelines. Root crops are planted on a dark Moon (waning) and above-ground crops are planted in the light of the Moon (waxing Moon). Lots of folks have more elaborate planting systems than that, having...
by ashevillewitch | May 23, 2013
and I would walk 500 more.I love that song.I can’t actually say I’ve been walking a thousand miles but I have been busy. “Rushed off my feet” as they say. My dear friend Mareena’s dear husband Richard died and we had the memorial, which...
by ashevillewitch | May 4, 2013
Today we are celebrating Beltane with a public ceremony in a public park. And it is cold and windy. Beltane marks the hinge of the year into summer and we are laughing today with the summer-like weather we’re experiencing. High 40s, windy, rain is imminent. But...
