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Hedge & Hearth

Bernadette Ashcroft

Words from a life of hedge & hearth; reweaving the natural soul through resonance with land, plants, and kinship with the living world.

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The Void of Becoming

Yesterday I sent out a piece of writing and put it behind a paywall, and I’ve felt strange about it ever since. I have a few paid subscribers and I’m incredibly grateful for them, but there’s something about a paywall that just doesn’t sit...

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Welcome to Hedge & Hearth

I’m starting a little podcast, just a wandering and a musing from the wild edges and hedgerows. I’ll talk about plants, kinship, and connection, about natural resonance and how we get to know our natural souls more fully. I’m not sure how i...

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    Errant writer/author, herbalist, forager, wild medicine maker, and folk singer writing on the edges of plant consciousness, mysticism, embodiment, and the ecology of kinship.

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