From the Hedgewitch's Journal: September: The Time of Plenty
From the Hedgewitch's Journal September: The Hedgewitch and the Time of Plenty "September is the hinge upon which the year turns, when summer gives her last gifts and autumn begins to gather the world into her keeping." There is a different feeling in the hedgerows in September. The bright abundance of midsummer has begun to fade, but the countryside is not yet empty; everywhere there are gifts waiting to be gathered. The old country people knew this as a time of plenty, when hedgerows, woods, orchards, and fields offered food for the coming months, and a wise household wasted little of what the land provided. For the hedgewitch, September was a season of both gathering and preparation. The herbs that had been flowering through summer were harvested and hung in bundles to dry, while roots were beginning to be dug and stored for winter remedies. But her basket was...
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