Earth Goddess Wisdom

Ecosia – the ‘Green’ Search Engine

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While we’re on the subject of the ‘new green’ are you using Ecosia – the Green Search Engine? Ecosia donates 80% of its revenue to the protection of the rainforest. You can search either from their home page or by installing their browser plug-in to make Ecosia your default search engine. When I first started…

Power of Tree Magic

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A number of years ago we had a lillypilly absolutely butchered by an “arborist”. It was a beautiful tree – with loads of energy – and when he “trimmed” it, you would walk out the back and you could ‘feel’ its pain. It was just horrible – so much so that even our (at the…

IS Santa real???!!

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This question comes from my daughter year after year and I give her the usual obtuse responses – usually culminating in her frustrated: “Well do YOU believe in Santa??” – to which I use my standard reply “I believe in the SPIRIT of Santa and what he represents”. With a roll of the eyes and…

Making Comfrey Oil

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Our comfrey plant has been going NUTS over the last few seasons and I’ve been despairing what to do with it. I decided to dry the leaves and use them for cooking and tea-making, but my daughter decided she wanted to give making comfrey oil a go.                …

Think differently this holiday season

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I was reading a fantastic contributed letter to my local newspaper and I thought some of the things mentioned were just awesome! Unfortunately I’m not allowed to reprint the letter here, but have included the link to it below so you can read it online. But the writer has some terrific gift suggestions that are…