On warm Autumn nights, the sky fills with seeds. The seeds are produced by thistles. They float easily on any updraft. A small breath of air will lift them into the air, where they float through French doors – flung open on a sultry evening – or drift past sausages dripping their fat into a barbecue’s flaring flames.
To the east the moon is rising, over the farmland where the haymaking of high summer gave it its name. Those fields of seeding grass and flowers, their corncrakes, yellow hammers, clouds of sparrows and hunting barn owls are long gone.
We are naming this lunar month the ‘Strawberry Rose Moon’ in recognition of the value of simple, natural food coupled with the importance of peace and harmony, especially between humans and the rest of the natural world.
The May Moon is also called the Flower Moon. This is because many of the spring flowers are at their best at this time of year.
Moon cycle: New Moon: 29th March 2025 Full Moon: 13th April 2025 New Moon: 27th April 2025 Pink Moon / Egg Moon April’s full moon is known in North America as ‘Pink Moon’ after an early blooming pink wildflower native to parts of the continent – the ‘Creeping phlox’ or ‘Moss phlox’ (Phlox subulate). An…
The Plough, or Worm Moon, is the last full moon of the winter season and first of the spring in the Northern hemisphere.
Traditionally, the second moon cycle of the year in the northern hemisphere has been known as the Snow Moon.
The state of environmental, sustainability and climate education in UK schools and effective practice in the classroom. This report, commissioned by the UK National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE), explores effective practices in delivering environmental, sustainability and climate education in schools across the United Kingdom. Drawing on a comprehensive review of academic and grey literature,…