by Juliet Batten | 16, Jul, 2024 | Seasons Newsletter
What do trees and grizzly bears have in common? According to forester Peter Wohlleben, who wrote The Hidden Life of Trees, bears prepare for hibernation by eating and eating to grow fat and sustain themselves for months of sleep with no food. And would you... 
by Juliet Batten | 5, Mar, 2024 | Seasons Newsletter
We are reaching summer’s end, and it’s time to contemplate how to hold the goodness of the season. At a Summer Retreat I led on Waiheke some years ago, we imagined our own personal containers for summer’s gifts, then made these containers on... 
by Juliet Batten | 10, Apr, 2023 | Seasons Newsletter
Did you know that in te ao Māori there was a month in which so little happened that it was often dropped from the calendar altogether? We are approaching that month now. At present we are in Paengawhāwhā, the eleventh month of the Māori calendar.... 
by Juliet Batten | 1, Feb, 2023 | Seasons Newsletter
How do you lean into the gifts of summer when it is very rainy and not very summery? This is what a reader from Tauranga asked recently. Sarah wrote to me, wondering, ‘Many of the summer blessings you describe in ‘Dancing with the... 
by Juliet Batten | 12, May, 2022 | Seasons Newsletter
I found this blog that I wrote nine years ago. It awakens memories of my years at Te Henga, the cycle of the kumara and the excitement of harvesting with the community. I thought you might enjoy it too. The kumara garden lies hidden between the dunes and the...