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- Contest Time!
Listen to learn the rules of the contest. Be sure to follow the rules to gain as many points as you can.
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5 min - The Honey Moon: Bees, Roses, and the Sweetness of the Gathered Year
The Honey Moon rises in June 🌕🍯
This is the season of the bee and the rose — sweetness gathered, hearts opened, abundance tasted.
In this episode:
🐝 The ancient lore of bees & "telling the bees"
🌹 What the rose teaches about opening fully
🍯 Seasonal herbs, foods & colors of the Honey Moon
🧠 The psychology of receiving sweetness
🕯️ Rituals & a guided "Golden Hum" meditation
Because the sweetest life isn't only the one well-worked…
It's the one well-tasted.
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29 min - The Turning Garden: From Spring Coolness to Summer Abundance
The garden is changing 🌿☀️
In this episode:
🧄 Harvesting garlic scapes from hardneck garlic
🌱 Succession planting spring crops into summer abundance
🍓 Preserving fresh berries
🌾 Mulching & weed control
🌿 Harvesting herbs before the heat
Because the early summer garden isn’t just planted…
It’s tended.
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23 min - The Blue Moon: Folklore, Magic, and the Sacred Rarity of Becoming
Once in a Blue Moon 🌕💙
In this episode, we explore:
🌌 Blue Moon folklore & spiritual symbolism
🌿 Lunar herbs, foods & colors
🕯️ A powerful Blue Moon ritual
🧠 Emotional & intuitive energy of rare moons
🌕 A guided meditation beneath the moonlight
Because some moons don’t just illuminate the sky…
They illuminate us.
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21 min - Tending the Summer Garden: Water, Weeds, and Working With Nature
Early summer gardening isn’t just about growing…
It’s about tending 🌿
In this episode:
🌱 Making fertilizer from weeds
💧 Keeping thirsty plants hydrated
🐛 Identifying common garden pests
🌼 Natural pest control & companion planting
🌎 Building a resilient garden ecosystem
Because the healthiest gardens work with nature — not against it.
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23 min - Growing Calories: The Forgotten Art of Feeding Ourselves
What if your garden could actually feed you?
In this episode, we explore:
🥔 High-calorie survival crops
🌽 Small-space food production
🫘 Beans, potatoes, corn & resilient staples
🌎 Ancient growing methods from around the world
🌱 Soil, water & climate resilienceBecause real food security starts closer to home than most people realize.
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18 min - Resilience in Uncertain Times: Food, Fear, and the Power of Local Roots
The world feels uncertain… but that doesn’t mean you have to feel unprepared.
In this episode, we explore:
🌱 Modern food systems
🖤 Climate anxiety & how to move through it
🌾 Building resilience in everyday life
🤝 The power of local networksBecause resilience isn’t about fear…
It’s about connection.
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8 min - The Hands That Fed the World: Women’s Hidden Agricultural Labor
The hands that fed the world… were often never named.
In this episode, we explore the hidden agricultural labor of women:
🌱 Seed keepers
🖤 Midwives
🥛 Dairy workers
🧵 Textile makersWork that sustained entire communities — but was rarely recognized.
Because not all labor is visible…
But all of it matters.
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12 min - Sacred Weeds: Reclaiming the Plants We Were Taught to Pull
What if weeds aren't weeds at all?
What if they're the land's own diagnostic report — telling you exactly what your soil needs and how to heal it?
In this episode of Old Ways, New Days, we go deep:
✨ What every common weed is actually telling you about your soil
✨ Natural amendments to address each soil condition (no chemicals needed)
✨ The sacred history of dandelion, plantain, lamb's quarters, nettle, and clover
✨ The Anglo-Saxon Nine Herbs Charm and the magic of liminal plants
✨ A soil reading practice drawn from ancestral land wisdom
✨ A guided meditation from the weed's eye view
✨ A simple outdoor ritual for learning the language of the land
This isn't about aesthetic gardens.
This is about learning to read the earth.
The weed you pulled last Saturday?
It was trying to tell you something.
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38 min - The Ethics of Foraging: Sacred Harvest, Reciprocity, and Remembering Our Place
When was the last time you asked the land permission?
This week on Old Ways, New Days, we step into one of the most important — and most overlooked — conversations in the foraging world:
The Ethics of the Harvest.
✨ The ancient principles of sacred harvest that predate every civilization we can name
✨ Why 'only take what you need' is more radical than it sounds
✨ Land acknowledgment as a living spiritual practice — not just a statement
✨ The real ecological crisis behind social media foraging culture
✨ Robin Wall Kimmerer, the Seventh Generation Principle, and the Wood Wide Web
✨ A rooted meditation on becoming the kind of being the land can trust
✨ A practical forager's code you can actually use
This isn't foraging as aesthetic.
This is foraging as covenant.
The wild is not a store. It is a relationship.
Come remember how to tend it.
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About Old Ways New Days
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Homesteading with a focus on urban and suburban sustainable living with a pagan and spiritual twist.