A New Path, Goddess Rings and My Food Forest

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

Our most prized apple tree toppled in the tornado that hit us in 2017. My husband planted a new one last year but we never touched the one that fell. It's horizontal but it still grows apples and the deer love it -because they can reach them!

[@DVines-sz4nn]

Aha? I think leaving it there growing is a great idea! Blessed Deer 🙏 to have your thoughtfulness serve them fresh sweet and delicious apples straight off the 🌳! May all be well with you&your 👪! ✌

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

D. Vines thank you!

[@jenna_henna]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for putting this rabbit hole before me. I fell into it and I am amazed! I’m not religious so I never looked into this till now 🌿🍃

[@bealtainecottage]

Blessings to you XXX

[@paula8544]

From your inspiration salvaging/collecting seedlings from paths etc. I now have the pleasure of a newly planted oak tree and an ash in my garden. I'm unable to get out but have asked friends to look out for them, secondly encouraged moving a couple tiny trees to areas with light and soil giving them chance to mature. Also have successfully had a Tree preservation order granted for a wonderful old monatary pine a person wanted to chop down, you seriously have helped emboldened me, thank you. Wonderful path you have created, your little patch of paradise is for me soothing and restorative whenever I am able to spend time watching your videos. Take care Collette and lovely Jack, wishing you a bountiful harvest for yourself and all life that share bealtaine, blessings of health,peace, happiness, wisdom and love.

[@lyndapoulton3132]

Thank you, Collette. Love your videos and your mission. From you I have learned to be much more observant with details in my own garden. I wonder more, wander more and feel more one with it all. 💝

[@donnamarciamcclendon4303]

Sir Jack is such a devoted companion for you, Colette. He is a wonderful blessing. 🦋

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

How wonderful. I’m viewing my time in my garden totally diffferently after finding you Colette. I talk to Mother Earth and view it all so differently now, it’s about giving now not controlling x

[@janetjoyce3846]

Exactly, me too Candy. Not having to keep it “tidy” for any NGS visitors now I am finding a different sort of love for my garden and letting my “wild” bits encroach more into the “not so wild” bits is great.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Janet Joyce yes Janet. I hope Colette knows the amazing change she’s bringing. It’s a wonderful new perspective isn’t it. I found two patches of nettles yesterday and was so happy as I wanted patches to leave. A year ago I’d have steamed in and ripped it all out without a thought for caterpillars and a healthy ecosystem x

[@janetjoyce3846]

Candy Morrigan ah, now then Candy, I’m one up on you there! I’ve always kept a patch of nettles for the caterpillars!!😇

[@thegardenmuse2398]

You are so right. Being tired after a workout in the garden is the best feeling ever!

[@vivsalittlebitcrafty4854]

mm, mmmmm my daily dose of calm and happiness. I just adore your beautiful woodland. Blessings.

[@dwaynecuster]

I've snuck into that corner a few times but you have to be very careful. The plants will sweep you away into another place and time. That corner of Bealtaine is really wild and I loved it! =) I think it will be wonderful to have a new path along that edge.

[@marthameadows9013]

I was such a selfish gardener until I started watching you. As I've mentioned before I have lived in a parsonage for several years in different places. I would create gardens only to have to leave and start over somewhere else. I never got to see the gardens come into their full capacity. I decided I wasn't going to put all that money and back breaking work into something that wouldn't be appreciated and I wouldn't get to enjoy. Thanks to you I have changed my thinking. I'm not planting just for me or people but for all life. From the bottom of my heart thank you. Blessings to you and dear Jack.

[@francisjohnson665]

I enjoy all your videos . The woodland looked so brilliantly green . I hate removing barbed wire, no matter what I wear , I end up getting scratched by it. My arms are covered with tiny scars from when we cattle farmed and my husband and I did all the fencing , and everything else , by ourselves. Blessings.

[@carlahostetter2496]

I agree Collette, hard work calms my mind and soothes my soul....especially if done outdoors. Blessings to you and Jack

[@marianfrances4959]

Love the phrase, food forest! Your garden is my dream! What a blessing for you and us. 🐾🐦🍎🌰🍄🌟🌝

[@suzanne48]

I always enjoy your videos & love listening to your wisdom. Jack is a bonus. Such a lovely, loyal friend. Blessings Colette.

[@Kate42]

Thank you so much for sharing the meaning and story behind the beautiful rings that you had created. I love it when there are true reasons and history behind something. Your flowers on the floor of your land are so gorgeous. It almost gives it a storybook look to it. Just lovely!

[@maryfennell9672]

There are lots of faces in the trees and shrubs I noticed today Colette, nature spirits watching over Bealtaine Cottage. Magical! I wear two rings, both silver, one is a spiral, the other a pentagram. Goddess Blessings to you and dear Jack ( who is always the star of the show!). x

[@DobermannKeeper]

A good point what you mention Colette in the video about the food forest. Food from the earth for the earth what includes all creatures great and small.

[@rosa-f4865]

The trees are beautiful Blessings to you Colette and Jack xx

[@markw6609]

Love the new path Colette, all your trees, and all the bird song! Thank you.

[@laurieknight3236]

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you for taking the time to share your perspectives and wisdom and stunning property.

[@geeker211]

So beautiful and peaceful. I'm looking so forward to the new path!

[@lindaedwards7840]

Good afternoon to you Colette, Thankyou for the lovely video. It was interesting to hear your plans for the new pathways Hugs and blessings to you and Jack . 🌹🌞💚

[@wendyw9816]

Love what you are doing Colette and so glad you are feeling better and not so listless x

[@marcusbillings1644]

Always amazing! Makes me anxious to see the future of my own plantings. Sending peaceful thoughts. Thank you again for sharing!

[@giudittabaig6979]

Absolutely mesmerizing 🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️

[@wendysherwood1012]

What a wonderful new endeavor!!! It was a delightful introduction to the furtherance of Bealtaine!

[@dianedills8187]

Yayyyyyyy, another lovely video & I’m watching it NOW. Love your channel. ❤️

[@judeross3875]

Physical exhaustion from working outside and on the land is just the best xx

[@elainerichards6406]

Hi Colette, took our dog Rosie for her boosters vaccinations today! Glad to be able to get them done, been a bit worrying as there had been a delay due to the Covid outbreak. Jack must be a blessing to you. A lovely trip round your grounds again thank you. Blessings to you and Jack.

[@corneliabraun9071]

Dear Colette , a few. years ago i tried to have a tidy garden . Today leaves 🍁 and sticks may remain . I even have daisy seeds strew across my meadow . I am looking for other plants 🌱 that can be walked over , they should also be in the meadow . The trees 🌳 and shrubs all receive an underplant with perennials . It already looks great . No piece of earth is without protection because i put on pine bark , because of the erosion . You are a good example of how to deal with Mother Earth . Thank you for the wonderful video. Jack is the best companion . Ich wish you a lot of rain ☔️ ☔️☔️Best regards and many hugs 🤗🤗🤗 to you my friend Jack and your loved ones from Conny Braun and cat 🐈 Felix from Germany. 🌎🙏🏼🤗🌳🌸🌺🐝🐕🌼🌻🕊🌷🐸🌲🐈🌏

[@LunarClair8]

Aaw wow thoroughly beautiful...at first I thought new path meant you were giving up these videos Collette but thank God it was an actual new and wonderful path yay! 😘🌸💝💝💝

[@phoenixkay7191]

My favorite Guru 💞

[@sheilabrewster6810]

Your rings are magical. I like them. The first woman was Lilith. Your property is Heavenly. Congratulations this month of May, as it must be 17 yrs now since you began Bealtaine Cottage. Hi there Jack🐾🌷🌳

[@redbird9658]

If only everyone was like you. The state of the world makes me weep. On the bright side i have a little chuckle when i see something nice in my little dry cyprus garden. I hear your voice say 'isn't that beautiful'. 🥰 43 degrees here today.

[@hippimummy]

Thankyou Colette. You are an oasis of calm and wisdom in times that are sadly lacking in both. I look forward to my visits with you and Jack. Blessings to you both xXx

[@robertamil]

Beautiful Colette and very hard job, Blessings to you and dear boy Jack

[@katherinecopelin8670]

Always lovely and alive! Three acres? Wonderful! Blessings

[@lyndaburman3232]

Thank you ✨

[@lisascott9670]

Wonderful!

[@lindaellis9349]

It is all so magical dear Colette and, immediately, calms me...blessings 💕

[@zenden6584]

Looking forward to seeing the new path 😍 Jack is the cutest 🥰💚

[@sheilabrewster6810]

Your camera work Colette is wonderful. I feel like I'm walking through a Virtual Reality in Heavens and garlands of Primrose Lane at Bealtaine Cottage. 🍄🏵️💐🍀🍓🍒🍎🍇

[@gracedchip6498]

Your Hawthorne tree is beautiful! I just got some Hawthorne seeds but I'm not entirely sure how to plant them or get them to grow. If you have any advice, it'd be much appreciated. I just love to hear you talking. Keep up the good work!! Bless you, Jack, and Bealtaine cottage!

[@glenysperry6351]

Interesting and informative, thank you.

[@thewunder-lusters9644]

How wonderful to see the 'London Oak' in situ and doing so well! :) ...

[@JupiterInTheWoods]

I love the wild edge!

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Hi Colette I love path ways because you never know what you might discover along the way. Hugs to Jack 💚

[@midlifemindfulness4417]

I’m in Florida and I get out and garden even with the numerous snakes we have. I don’t feel right if I haven’t used my strength for a few hours every day.

[@g.g.5516]

Thank you, I'm very tired too

[@ligray68]

Blessed be

[@ourfloridagarden4191]

Blessings

[@skeeterbits1473]

Thank you for opening my eyes in many ways. You know barbed wire is so gruesome and hateful. I look at it differently now. I look at many things differently now since you appeared on my radar.

[@mamacardinal]

A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now BY A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

[@acceptingseeking]

That energy

[@deeringkendrick8388]

Collette, are you referring to Lilith, as the first woman created by god? I heard about Lilith when I took a literature class my freshman year in college. My mother went ballistic when I asked about her. I got such a chuckle.

[@sixeses]

Bealtaine Cottage Woodland and Habitat!

[@joyofthings]

Mother Nature don’t you love her xxxx

[@kroegermarkus1170]

I was wondering have you ever read The White Goddess by Robert von Ranke-Graves? If not you should but it is not always available. I my self bought three copies (german) in my life, read them a few times and then gave them away to people like you. :)

[@jturtle5318]

I just ordered the book. It sounds exciting.

[@cynthiaOC]

Beelove