The garden center was covered in snow today so not much could be done physically but we did so much planning for the year to come!! It’s also nice cause it’s moments like there where gardening and my spiritual path/celebrations overlap cause it felt like a pre-Imbolc/winter’s peak festivity.

We drank hot chocolate as we wrote down plans for what we wanted to grow and set intentions for things to learn, goals to make and workshops to host. We are aiming to do even more seed saving and food growing and I asked about learning how to make salves and remedies which they’ll aim to do (since my instructor already teaches workshops on it.) I feel so good about this new cycle and that I’ll learn a lot!

Also coincidentally an order for new baby tree whips and bushes arrived!! The ground was still cold so we had to set them up in a greenhouse. Then we did some wassailling for the Apple trees and sang songs as we splashed cider on their soil 😭💕

I am so grateful for this gardening community in my life like I wish everyone had this. I feel like this year I’ll learn even more and have the resources, confidence, experience and tools to be able to pass on the knowledge and help out the community more. I feel like working with the earth really grounded my spiritual path but also brought a sense of peace and control to my mental well being. I don’t know how to explain it but plants and soil are so healing.

Also though my instructor is really technical and sciencey she loves how some woowoo stuff overlaps like biodynamic gardening (gardening with astrology) and often without realizing it some planting and harvesting had overlapped with major astrological events or seasonal shifts and everytime I bring it up she’s LIVING for it so as a side hobby we are going to investigate further into biodynamic gardening lol

I’m so ridiculous. I barely did anything today and my chives are blooming. The flowers are SO FUCKING TASTY and FRAGRANT like the most fragrant spring onion kind of flavor and aroma. I have Friday off so since they will probably still be around then unless if some animal comes and eats them all I will definitely be doing magical stuff with it. I just remembered them cause I was looking up squash blossom recipes cause zucchini and squash will flower soon and their flowers are super delicious. 

*✧・ﾟ:*🌸 SPRING 🌸:*・°☆.。 Witchy things to do!

oh my god SPRING 🌸 🌸 is here it is one of my FAVORITE seasons! Here is a list of magical witchy things to do! 1- Make floral water! Violets! Rose! Sakura and Plum Blossoms! Lavender! Elderflower! Lilac! Dandelions! Pansies! So many wonderful and edible flowers! You can make fragrant water with them that could be used for spells, cooking, drinking (dandelion can be sometimes spicy or bitter but pairs well with ginger!) and syrups!  2- Make floral Extracts! For all the flowers mentioned above and other edible kinds you can also buy some vodka and make extracts from them too! It makes it easier to preserve the flavor to cook with or use in perfume fragrances! But another great way to preserve the fragrances are: 3- Make fragrance oils! I read that sweet almond oil can be the nicest for infusing flowers to make fragrance oil. There’s a great site here that you can buy different carrier oils and really nice tinted bottles at a great price! Fragrance oils are great for body products like bath spells, gels, soaps, salts, glamour magic, body butters, lotions, candles the possibilities go on and on. Here is a nice post about the benefit of different carrier oils for the skin. I would research which flowers you wish to put in an oil and see if they are friendly for the skin but things like rose, jasmine and lavender are great. 

4- Dry flower petals! Here’s a nice tutorial and tips on how to dry flowers. Dried flower petals are great to add to bath spells (sorry I love bath witchcraft so that’s why I keep going back to that), bath salts, but either whole or crushed into powder its amazing for baking (if you ever have a real French macaron that is floral flavored they use powdered petals to mix with the almond flour to get the real flavor), in powdered form could be used in incense, in petal form could be used in teas and if you like to smoke, you can roll it in a blunt or a bowl! If you like hookah you can mix it with tobacco or smokable teas and it tastes great. The first time I ever had hookah I was just smoking jasmine with no tobacco and it was interesting. Also a kitchen witch thing, you can add dried or powdered petals to sugar and make floral sugar or add it in honey and make floral honey! Delicious addition to teas, baking or spells! 

- Also with all these flower magic things going on, it will give you an excuse to take beautiful nature walks! Which is always great for a witch to do!

5- REPOT YOUR HOUSE PLANTS I do this around Beltane as a tradition but your house plants are going to die if you don’t give them fresh nutritious soil at least every two years (cause I stretch it and they still survive lol.) But its good since Spring is a time where gardening stores get all excited on you to also remember to take care of your plants inside!  6- Plant things Or maybe plan your garden! Even if you don’t have a garden maybe get some herbs or pretty wildflower seeds and sprinkle them in the woods or any naturey place you like to seclude yourself in for rituals. Just don’t throw it on neighbor’s yards or be a nuisance lol. ALSO! Watch out for which plants are invasive weeds like Mint is a menace (though it’s a tasty menace but it spreads like fire). I guess maybe suggesting spreading random seeds in nature might not be a good idea since there are a few plants that can cause trouble. I mostly was referring to cute wild flowers or chives maybe. If you want to do that just be careful I guess.  I’ll probably add on more to this later but this is the few things I could think of. I hope everyone enjoys spring! I’m already readying my arsenal of jars to collect blossoms in lol.