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Society Garden Mabon Harvests

Posted in garden, Other, tagged bountiful crops, collards, Corn, earth paganism, fruits, Gaia, gardening, healing, Oko, peppers, Society garden, squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, vegetables, watermelons on September 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Many thanks are given, hail the Good Earth Mother Gaia, Orisha Oko, St. Francis, and all other spirits and deities who gave SLPS the bountiful harvests it has enjoyed. The crops have come in for the 2nd harvest season of Mabon. There is still more on the vines! Mostly left are the tomatoes, tomatillos, green beans, a few peppers and a cabbage head along with the melon or two still in the patch. The corn is picked. So more harvest yet that will take us in to the final season of Samhain, the last great harvest of the year.

As for now, the Society garden has been remarkable bountiful, thanks to not just the blessings of the gods but those who worked to put it in, maintain it, and the land spirits who watched over it at night. We give thanks!

Here are the pics from Lughnasadh to Mabon 2015

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Society Garden 2015, collard greens, Saturday, August 22, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, April Love in watermelon patch, Sunday, August 9, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, Corn stalks are taller than Daniel Cureton, Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, Corn stalks are taller than Daniel Cureton, Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, first harvest offerings, Sunday, August 9, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, second harvest, Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden 2015, big harvest, Sunday, September 4, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden Harvests Upcoming with 1st Harvest Holiday of the Year-Lughnasadh

Posted in garden, Other, tagged fruits, garden 2015, gardening, Late summer 2015, lughnasadh, Salt Lake Pagan Society, SLC, Society garden, utah, vegetables, watermelon on August 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The society garden has grown remarkable well! The land has been bountiful and fertile. August is expected to bring bountiful harvests, just in time for Lughnasadh, the firs great harvest time of the year.

July has provided much sun and heat for considerable growth. Here is an update as to the state of the garden. Many fruits and vegetables are near ripping and will be ready for pickin in the dogs days of August. Gaia has blessed us this year to grow organically from our own hands and to promote the real Earth working. Getting back to our ancestors of agriculture, the simple joys of growing and feeling the soil in your hands as you care for these creatures. This is the real meaning of Paganism. These shots are from July 2015.

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, peppers, and tomatoes, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, watermelon, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, main garden area, l to r: corn, cucumbers, dill, cabbage, cantaloupe, butternut squash, collard greens, green onion, St. Francis and grape vine, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, tomato, tomatillo, cucumber, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, tomato, tomatillo, cucumber, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: tomatoes, peppers, corn, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, collard greens, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT —

Society Garden 2015, l to r : cucmber, dill, butternut squash, cantaloupe, cabbage, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: tomatillo, corn, yellow squash, cucumber, dill, butternut squash, Friday, July 10, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, yellow watermelon, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l tor : corn, cucumber, cantaloupe, butternut squash, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, watermelon patch, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: tomatillo, corn, yellow squash, cucumber, dill, cabbage, cantaloupe, butternut squash, collard greens, St. Francis, green onion, grapeThursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: cantaloupe, green onion, St. Francis, Grape, collard greens, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, cucumber, dill, cantaloupe, butternut squash, cabbage, collard greens, green onion, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT —

Society Garden 2015, l to r: tomato, blue berry bush, tomatillo, corn, yellow squash, cucumber, dill, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, beans, peppers, tomato,Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, peppers (l) and tomatoes, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, corn, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: peppers, corn, peppers, tomatoes, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, beans around corn stalk, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, bell pepper, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: herbs- oregano, cilantro, parsley, Thursday, July 24, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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Society Garden Growing and Growing!

Posted in garden, Other, tagged fruits, garden 2015, gardening, herbs, organic, Society garden, vegetables, watermelon on July 1, 2015| 1 Comment »

The Garden has taken off! With over 15 types and variety of fruits and vegetables, SLPS is expecting a great harvest in a few months! This is how everything grew over the month of June 2015

Society Garden 2015, Society dog Frejya walking in the garden l to r: dill, cabbage, butternut squash, cantaloupe, Frejya, collard greens, St. Francis, Saturday, June 20, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, main garden area with St. Francis l to r: tomato, tomatillo, corn, yellow squash, cucumber, cabbage, dill, cantaloupe, butternut squash, collard green, green onion, grape vine, Saturday, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lakei City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: tomatillo, tomato, pepper, and corn plants, Saturday, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, St. Francis and collard greens, Saturday, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: corn, yellow squash, cucumber, butternut square, cantaloupe, dill and cabbage, Saturday, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, l to r: herbs-parsley, cilantro and oregano, Saturday, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

Society Garden 2015, watermelon patch, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT

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New Society Garden Planted

Posted in garden, Other, tagged anaheim, bell peppers, blue berries, butternut squash, cantaloupes, cilantro, collard greens, Corn, cucumbers, dill, gardening, grapes, green living, jalapeno, onions, oregano, salt lake city, Salt Lake Pagan Society, society garden 2015, sustainability, tabasco, tomatillo, tomatoes, utah, vegetables, watermelon, yellow squash on June 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Blessed Be the Good Earth Mother and all her fertile soil. The new society garden has been planted and blessed this past week of May 24-31, 2015. Daniel Cureton, Ashton Longhurst, April Love, and Gwen Allen with the house dog Freyja worked hard over the last week to weed, turn the soil for roots, add manure, plant the crop and water the garden. “It was back breaking work. Most of it was the weeding with hoes and turning the soil with the cultivating forks, that took the whole week.” Said Ashton Longhurst. Gwen Allen commented “my African blood was pumping strong. We were out there working like slaves! Real strong, I was feelin akin to the brothas and sistas from home in the Deep South workin the plantations”

The planting on Sunday morning went quickly and easily after the hard work was done. It was done over night and in the early morning hours so that the society members wouldn’t be bothered by the bees. All included are: bell, Anaheim, Tabasco and jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, tomatillo, corn, oregano, cilantro, parsley, butternut squash, yellow squash, cucumbers, Georgia collard greens, cantaloupe, watermelon, a blue berry bush and a grape vine. President Daniel Cureton gave a druid blessings on the land “May the fire of life Nwyfre come up at this point and give life and fertility to everything present.”