September is a great time of year to harvest Elderberries to create a wonderful immune-boosting winter tonic. Please check out our recipe for making an elixir jam-packed with natural ingredients that are anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting. By adding...
This poem was written by Richard Tyler Endings I am standing where the ground changes without asking permission. Behind me, names loosen their grip. What we called “us” settles into memory, not gone, just no longer able to answer back. There is a...
By Richard Tyler Before I understood grief deep in my bones, I thought it was a thing to move through. A corridor to manoeuvre. A season with a known end. I did not know it was a gathering. When a crow falls, the others come. Not to mourn, not the way we use that...
This poem was written by Richard Tyler to acknowledge that life is precious Mayfly You will not live past morning. Yet you know nothing of this. I cannot decide: the gift, or the grief. I have been counting. All those unreached hours. The words still...
This poem was written by Richard Tyler to celebrate Father's Day. Heartwood Somewhere today a hand still steadies a hand: the small one learning the road, the wobble caught before the fall, the low voice behind it…go on, I have you. All day the phones fill with...
It's the perfect time of year to make Elderflower Cordial - a real spring treat! Please check out our guide for picking elderflowers and making this delicious cordial. By adding citric acid, you can store the cordial for a couple of months in the fridge, so you can...
This piece of writing won Richard Tyler the Bardic Chair for Bath - Gorsedh Caer Baddon, 2026. The theme for 2026 was Elder and he chose to craft a piece that speaks directly to the Elder tree and the forests but also the elders within our community and the need for...
It is Dying Matters week, and the invitation this year is Let's talk about Death and Dying. I want to do just that. I want to take the invitation seriously, and I want to widen it a little, because there are deaths we are living through that have no obituaries, and...
A River In Each Hand - Richard Tyler This poem was written for #DyingMatters week You learn early not to let it show. There is a face for the corridor, a voice that stays level even when the room has just emptied of someone who will not return. You were...