This is a morning in early winter, at Bealtaine Cottage in the west of Ireland.
On this Sunday, the twentieth day of November, I awoke to frost, clear skies and that bitter cold signalling immersion in Winter.
Bealtaine Cottage didn’t always look like this…you can see how it once looked at the bottom of this page…
Twelve years ago it looked quite different.
The monoculture of meat production had brought the land low.
Mother Earth was slowly dying.
The air was silent.
This morning you can see for yourself the beauty brought back to the land through Goddess Permaculture.
What is Goddess Permaculture, I hear you ask?
It is simply this…to recognise the Goddess in all life and honour her beauty and abundance, living as close to the Great Mother, Goddess Gaia, as one possibly can.
To understand the Divine Feminine as the source of all life.
To honour the life force of Mother Earth.
To not just believe, but to understand that there is a way back to a beautiful Earth!
You don’t need qualifications to restore Mother Earth…you need to open your heart and feel deep compassion for her loss…
Now we come to the end of this series of images taken this morning, you will find the images I snapped twelve years ago, when the Goddess lay buried deep within herself, hidden by patriarchal abuse and greed!
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Silence appeared to be universal. 
For my part I’m inclined to go with the flow and whatever the Cosmos is channelling. 
There appears to be a ramp-up to conflict towards war happening in the world of Man…deliberate and dark. 
It grieves me. 
There is so much hate it is almost possible to taste it on the air! 
Politicians and religious leaders are doing their utmost to hold back the tide of change, issuing decrees and telling falsehoods to keep humankind from evolving…yes, evolving…for we have been revolving for millennia! 
You are reading these words and looking at the images of Bealtaine and feeling confused… 
Yet this is the true reality…this is the Great Mother rising! 
Her energy is so strong that it manifests reality wherever She finds a portal. 
And a portal She has found here for sure! 
This is love and joy from the Great Creatrix!
There was no killing, just planting and nurturing the Great Mother back to health…something so utterly alien to political and religious leaders! 
My tolerance for these people of chaos and destruction is now zero. 
I cannot and will not tolerate their verbiage! 
As the thousand and more trees and thousands of plants of the Bealtaine Project grow taller and more dense, so it is the once barren land seems more and more as it is…an Ark for Earth, set into a monoculture landscape of Cash-Crop-Forestry and animal grazing fields. 
This summer witnessed the most Bees, Butterflies, Pollinators and Birds ever! 
The wildlife in search of home are migrating to the oasis of Bealtaine Cottage. 
They know where the food, shelter and ultimate habitat is to be found! 
So, I thought to myself, what if those with gardens, allotments, smallholdings etc., pledged to devote a percentage of what they tend or own to wildlife?
We are talking Arks, where wildlife can not only survive, but thrive! 
This takes the presumption that one cannot make a difference and turns it on it’s ridiculous head! 
For one can make a difference! 
Two can double that little Ark for Earth…hundreds can create a huge difference and thousands…well, thousands can begin to stack the odds in favour of Mother Earth! 
Now don’t get me thinking of hundreds of thousands or even millions, for my head will almost explode with possibilities…but you see where this is going, don’t you? 
And as for Guerrilla Gardening…oh joy!
What about seed bombs chucked out of the car window onto the motorway verges? 
We are creative people who care…if you’ve landed here on this website you most certainly are! 
So let’s get to it! 
Oh, and the Lughnasadh Garden is being worked on little by little, with a grand opening and dedication ceremony next Bealtaine (May 1st)
…the Ark is being extended…
…One Garden At A Time
and…it’s going to be mighty!
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the “chaotic” powers of nature and woman…is what ultimately lies behind man’s famous “conquest of nature” – a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth’s ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.
Even the metaphor we use for our planet, ‘Mother Earth’, for instance…our nurturing Earth!
I have lived through the greatest exploitation and destruction of ‘virgin forests’, ever seen.
It is something I would love to be able to wish away and part of the reason I have grown and planted over one thousand trees to co-create Bealtaine Cottage, with, Mother Earth.
Apart from the violence of war and the destruction of the planet, women have been associated with the physical side of life.
Even in biblical terms, women are ‘closer to nature’, and so to be kept controlled.
Nature is more powerful than human life.
The control over Nature allows a fleeting feeling of control and empowerment…but, never for long, as we all know.
So, in my own small way, recognising these truths, I embarked on a journey of making peace…with Her.
The ultimate and final Peace Initiative.
I come from one of the most devastated towns in Northern Ireland…Omagh.
A town that endured such violence and suffering in the worst bombing witnessed on a quiet day in August of 1998.
I mention this as it helps to contextualize my own life and motives for what I do…a complex study in itself!
The only end to violence comes when people make peace with each other, or a situation.
Peace and happiness is never birthed from subjugation and control.
As a society that has both witnessed and endured these past two world wars, we should be in full receipt of that information!
For twelve years now I have striven to make peace with Mother Earth. 
The results are here for all to see.
She is not to be feared.
She is not to be controlled.
She is who we live WITH!
I learned, to my shock, the other day, that Ireland relied heavily on the importation of Chemical Fertilizer from America during the years of World war Two!
That was over sixty years ago, so one must assume that grass has only grown green from chemicals ever since!
One must further conclude that alongside this continued abomination has come the loss of topsoil, for one goes hand-in-hand with the other!
The ultimate Peace Initiative is working with Mother Earth to create topsoil, as evidenced here.
Peace is to be nurtured and worked through.
Peace comes with levels of compromise and sacrifice.
Peace in our own life comes with persistence and negotiation and keeping the vision with us.
Peace comes from the refusal to abuse, the refusal to not live ON Her, but WITH Her!
The greatest war of all time is being fought in every garden, allotment, field, woodland, forest, river, ocean and all that makes up Mother Earth.
Went for a walk down to the pond and made a video on the way, as the sun shone and the birds sang…what a beautiful day! 
Just recalling how a mere twelve years ago there was nothing here by wet, rushy ground that was impenetrable to the spade! 
There is even a Spring Well, dug out from stone, deep within the Fairy Wood! 
Bealtaine Cottage…from monoculture to permaculture in twelve short years! 
