by Sara Hudston Saints used to be common as blackberries in England. Every rural parish had them, a wild-grown mix of sweet and sharp characters, carrying the heady, slightly winey tang of older religions. These were small, unfamous saints whose holy places were natural features – springs, wells, groves or caves – that had been […]
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Answer the call
by Emma Wallace Seven years ago I doodled a mountain on a piece of paper and I couldn’t understand what it was. Now I live on that mountain, laying the foundation stones of a modern-day abbey and stronghold. This is how I got here. My friend Sarah, a writer, gives me a word of advice. […]
Becoming Indigenous
Introducing the first of our Hedge School Podcasts. Four years ago, I started writing a book with a core idea in mind which offered itself up in the Introduction like this: In our own Western societies we are seeing more calls for a return to native wisdom, but we cannot live by the worldviews of […]