season of reflection

life moves pretty fast

powerful antidotes

through the portal

learning and growing into spring

emerging gently into the new year with new offerings

Spring has sprung! It’s been a long time coming but something has changed this week. (Probably that it’s stopped raining!) There are lots of tiny leaves coming out, more spring flowers are emerging and the air just smells different. This month the moon is a ‘pink moon’ but this actually refers to the pink spring flowers that are coming out to say hello.

Celebrating our first collaboration with We Are Woven. On Saturday we held our March Gwyr Foraging Clwb.

It was such a magical event, where we built community and shared knowledge.

A little recap of Saturday night’s Early Spring Supper Clwb. Such a magical celebration of new shoots and colourful roots!

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus // Happy St David’s Day

gwnewch y pethau bychain // do the little things

Cleavers (or goosegrass) are one of my favourite spring plants; super rich in calcium, vitamin C, sodium and silica. They taste fresh and grassy, almost like cucumber I think. They are amazing at supporting the lymphatic system.

A collaboration with We Are Woven, Gwyr Foraging Clwbs, offer us chance to document the subtle shift of the seasons and will delve into the potent medicines growing all around us throughout the year. They are open to all levels of understanding. We seek to build community and share knowledge through these events.

gwyl forwyn is the first festival of spring, celebrating dreams and the waking of the earth.

a time to look forward and to reflect. this month is named after the roman god, janus, who had two faces: one looking to the future and one to the past.

december marks the start of winter and the weather has definitely taken a cold turn here on gower. now more than ever we need to support our immune and circulatory systems.

using the right ceramics to serve our dishes is so important to us. they need to tell the story of our local area, to be the right colours, sizes and textures. right here on gower, we have the amazing ceramicists: micki schloessingk + chris jenkins, who work at bridge pottery in cheriton.

about saturday…

after six years of thinking about it, my first supper clwb finally happened. i’m still coming down from the high of the weekend.

november is the start of late autumn and the end of harvest following samhain, the days feel short and the nights are dark and long.

you may have started to notice that sunset seems to be creeping ever earlier and the daylight hours are less. the darkness encourages us to turn inward and reflect, and to celebrate or undertake rituals. this time of year is when we celebrate samhain.