The concluding walk of the saltmarsh section of our River Dart Way guided pilgrimage was in early November, on our final Wild Church Sunday for this year. It was beautifully guided by our ‘wild librarians’, Fiona & Sim, who led us from the Totnes Leechwell to the ancient yew on the Dartington Trust Estate. Read … Read more
Our Sacred Waters Way downstream pilgrimage began on a sunny Sunday afternoon in early May, with a gentle wander from the ‘new’ (Victorian) St Mary’s church in Dartington to the ‘old’ (medieval) St Mary’s Tower. Myrtle Cooper of Wild and Curious Foraging took our wild church practice of ‘wandering and wondering’ to heart, as she … Read more
All Saints Day dawned very wet and windy, such that only the hardiest Wild Church pilgrims (and a very fluffy cat) gathered under Grandmother Yew in Dartington Gardens. To be beneath her ancient branches is to be in the presence of a living ancestor, a wild saint who is at least as old as the … Read more
This was the first Roots into Reverence pilgrimage in Devon and the first in the depths of winter. We started out in the pale afternoon light of an early December day and the light faded as we walked a circular route from St Mary’s Church, Dartington. We walked in silence and in song and each … Read more
Our wonder filled year of ‘meetings with remarkable trees’ drew to a close recently with our last two events – June’s oak pilgrimage and July’s canoe pilgrimage. As my (Sam’s) summer holy-days are now beginning, please forgive me if I gather stories from these two beautiful days together in this one journal post, before Wild … Read more