harvest festivities

It's Lughnasadh or Lammas, the Pagan celebration of the harvest. I am planning a few crafty activities so I thought I'd share them. Traditionally our ancestors would have made corn dollies at this time to represent the Goddess, honour the crops and protect their home during the winter months. We have made these for years with varying degrees of success - often I am left struggling to make something recognisable with a pile of wheat sheaves whilst everyone else has moved onto more engaging activities. Such as eating. Bread was baked from the first harvest of the corn and lammas literally translates as loaf mass. So there'll be wafts of fresh bread aroma filling the kitchen, unfortunately not using the first corn harvest as we have none to gather. The bread will be part of a harvest feast, featuring those veggies that the chickens have left well alone - so lots of carrots and beans, a few peas and tomatoes and some edible flowers such as calendula and nasturtium. Oops, gotta go, will post more later...