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The Meaning and Gift of Worry

While this post is not about Covid in particular, it is about an equally contagious and devastating related illness. This illness is…

Nov 6, 2020

The Meaning and Gift of Worry

Nov 6, 2020

Labrador Tea

Labrador tea is the younger cousin of Sweetgale and Bearberry. She is very different in character as indicated by Her distinct wooly…

Jan 18, 2020

Labrador Tea

Jan 18, 2020

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Golden Tears of the Goddess

Long ago in the East, a Goddess had pity for our humble starving ancestors and wept. Her tears fell to the Earth as golden pears, to…

Oct 7, 2017

Golden Tears of the Goddess

Oct 7, 2017

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Grandfather Mullein, The Tall One with Bright Yellow Eyes

I was working with that grand old master Mullein on this misty morning. It wasn’t hot and sunny enough to be harvesting any of the other…

Aug 7, 2017

Grandfather Mullein, The Tall One with Bright Yellow Eyes

Aug 7, 2017

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The Bright Eyes of Divinity; Jewels at the Heart of Existence.

All my plant relations are jumping back up now. Every spring I’m brought to tears of gratefulness when I see their beautiful faces again…

Jul 1, 2017

The Bright Eyes of Divinity; Jewels at the Heart of Existence.

Jul 1, 2017

Plantain: Traveller’s Talisman

I’ve been reading Martin Shaw’s “Scatterlings” this winter. The message is a wise old one, that “what we’re searching far and wide for…

May 19, 2017

Plantain: Traveller’s Talisman

May 19, 2017

Chickadee teachings & Sunflower medicine

Everyday through the fall and into the snow filled month of December we had the great pleasure of being visited by a living stream of Black…

Mar 2, 2017

Chickadee teachings & Sunflower medicine

Mar 2, 2017

Saint John’s Wort: The First Healer

I’ve been wildcrafting herbs for thirty-five years, and I still learn (or re-learn) many things every year. I seldom have alone time these…

Feb 11, 2017

Saint John’s Wort: The First Healer

Feb 11, 2017

Indigenous Forest Gardening

Excerpt from Permaculture Magazine, Spring 2017

Jan 27, 2017

Indigenous Forest Gardening

Jan 27, 2017

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The Swale or The Art of Muck Raking

I moved to the farm at Golden Lake, now home of the Sacred Gardener, in December 1999. When the snow melted in the spring, a huge swale ran…

Jan 8, 2017

The Swale or The Art of Muck Raking

Jan 8, 2017

Steven Martyn

Steven Martyn

M.A. (traditional plant use), B.F.A. honours, artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, teacher, writer, visionary. thesacredgardener.ca steven@thesacredgardener.ca

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