Photos from Greenbelt 2013

Here are some photos from our time at Greenbelt 2013. Photos are of the Healing Herb Pathway in the Grove, and the Sunday evening fire ritual.

Fire at the Heart of the Earth

Hi, thought it might be useful to also put the sheet from Sunday evening at the Grove, Greenbelt up on here. To make it more easily available for all, I've attached it as a .doc file below. Please do contact us if there are any issues accessing it in this format. Fire at the Heart …

Healing Herb Pathway

We thought that it might be good for people to have access to the written material from the healing herb pathway, so have attached the writing here as various jpg files. IMBOLC ~ SPRING And Copies of Prayers on the Washing Line: CALON HAF ~ SUMMER LAMMAS ~ AUTUMN SAMHAIN ~ WINTER MIND BODY SPIRIT …

Opening ritual at The Grove #gb40

Well its arrived and welcome to anyone who has joined The Grove, passed by with curiosity or scanned our QR code just because you could! The circle is more beautiful that we could imagine, thanks to the wonderful collective of forest churchers, foragers, nChanters and barnonians. We are especially proud of our healing herb pathway …

Greenbelt Day 4: paradise in the mire. #gb12

Although the rain fell and the mud thickened (and in some places, turned to soup) there was almost a carnival atmosphere on site today. The last full day of the festival is always bitter-sweet as people begin to pack up and light squares of turf appear around your own tent. Today more so than normal …

Greenbelt day 3: Mud and sun

You know you're at Greenbelt when you are wearing Wellies and worrying about sunburn. That was the experience at the communion this morning. The front section was a cordoned off quagmire but our spirits we less than dampened! The elements theme of fire, water, earth and wind was beautifully demonstrated in a parade of flags, …

It got a little muddy at greenbelt

Flash flooding at greenbelt

Wet but wonderful Greenbelt Day 2

I think we were all surprised by exactly how much water can fall from the sky in such a short space of time, but now, sat with a beer and the kids nestled in a mostly dry tent, with a beautiful sunset peering over my shoulder, I can't help but thank God for the miracle …

Greenbelt Day 1

Well I'm waiting in the queue for Peterson Toscano (not like me to be early, I got the time wrong) so I thought Id do a Day 1 update. We fortunately arrived early enough for me to get the tent up before the rain, and indeed before my family arrived with the rest of the …

Greenbelt 2012: Saving Paradise

It's nearly upon us and boy are we excited! A few Barnonians will be at Greenbelt this year and we are going to try to camp together. You may spot our banner, created by the wonderful Paul, complete with QR code leading people to this site. If that's you, Croeso! I'm particularly excited by Peterson …