Harvest Home Hermitage

04/13/2026

Big news! The Hermitage is moving! I’m not sure where - that depends on a number of things - but here’s the Zillow listing if anyone is interested in buying an established suburban homestead:

01/31/2026

Happy Imbolc! What’s budding in your life? Who or what are you inviting in?

01/12/2026

The first class in the Herb and Garden Magick series has been published to the Hermitage YouTube channel. The video is open access, with paid features available on Skool.

This is part of a class series on herb and garden magick. Follow the link below to access the community forum and paid class materials on Skool: https://www....

01/10/2026

Greetings! Announcing my new community on Skoolz, Herb and Garden Magick! Come check out the community and learn about the magick of plants and soil. The community is free to join with immediate access to the forum area. For a nominal fee of $30 per month, members will have access to classes on a variety of topics, including incense and potpourri making, setting magickal intentions, raising and gardening with herbs, and the history and anthropology behind traditional herb use. Come check it out!

https://www.skool.com/herb-and-garden-magick-4866/about?ref=16f28ddb235e4770a12ff51b03b8f200

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

Have a Blessed Yule!

12/20/2025

Calling the Army’s Spiritual Fitness Guide “new age” and unserious, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered its immediate removal, raising concerns about how future chaplain reforms could affect religious pluralism within the U.S. military.

12/20/2025

What’s in your gardens?

12/14/2025

Another small load of freebie flagstone, and the pathway continues through the herb garden.

12/11/2025

Hey, guys, if you’ve been following the developments and happenings here at the Hermitage and find value in what I’m building here, please find it in your heart to give me some support this month. I was laid off in July and have exhausted my savings and unemployment benefits looking for work that will accommodate my disabilities. I have a job come January 2nd, but by that time I won’t have basic utilities or a telephone service with which to do the work. All the area charities are tapped out for the foreseeable future as well. I can accept PayPal at [email protected]. I appreciate you all and any donations will go to feeding the animals at the Hermitage and keeping the utilities going. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Photo is of Charcoal, resting on the front walkway.

12/09/2025

Rooting Cuttings with Willow Tea: a new video up on the Hermitage’s YouTube channel:

How to use willow tea to encourage cuttings to root.

12/06/2025

The beginnings of a shrine to Cernunnos at the foot of what I think of as the god’s tree, a triple trunked red oak(?). I was out with the goats and realized that a path had opened right to its trunk from the labyrinth area. I’ve wanted to put a shrine here for years, but couldn’t find the fynds to build one. Then I saw the fallen branches around it. I have been considering fallen branches as building materials rather than garden waste for a while now, but hadn’t considered using them for the shrine until now. It’s not much, but for now it’s perfect!