Beltaine !!! May 1st ! - Updated

Beltaine

Themes:  Fertility, Love, Friendship, Romance, Nature, Reproduction, flowers , sexuality , mid spring day , trees, Playful / youthful male activity ( Think Pan )

About Honey-  Honey is killing the bees and this is devastating  for plants and all who eat them . Please read this great article -
http://janewatkinson.com/2013/06/12/buying-honey-products-funds-exploitation-and-environmental-problems/

You may want to also watch this video  :

http://wreg.com/2015/04/17/truck-carrying-millions-of-bees-overturns/

Activities : 

• Gardening 
• Feed the birds . Find vegan bird suet here http://www.veganstore.com/product/596/vegan-dogs-and-cats  , or make your own vegan suet 
• Planting flower baskets 
• Camping 
• The bouquet - The modern May Day basket 
• Responsible wild crafting & foraging 
• Forest rejuvenating prayer, spell or meditation 
• Earth Candles !!

Earth candles recipe coming soon so, subscribe to the blog ! It's FREE! IT's now there ! Just go to the blog and put Earth candles in the search bar !
 I recommend you burn these on a stone altar indoors, in your yard , or another safe place . And if not on an all stone altar on an altar slab of flat stone such as slate .

• Making a place for life - Make or buy and put out butterfly feeders, bird baths and houses , bee attractors  etc. 

• BEE WATER - 
  
  

Bee water is easy to make , just get a bowl that is shallow enough fill with marbles or flat marbles and then water . You want it to be so that bees can land on the marbles and drink without being under water so, the water won't be deep and will require refilling often . Keep it clean too ! The bowl in my picture is hardly full of water . I just didn't have enough marbles at the time to do it that way .


Recipes : 

• Edible flower list - http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/42-flowers-you-can-eat.html

• Flower ice cubes - Place flowers in ice cube trays with water and freeze then use in water , lemon water, iced tea etc. 

• Flower salads - Add flowers to your salads 

• Iced rosehip tea - Sweetened to taste with agave syrup 

• flower recipes - Dandelion flowers can be ground up and made into a meal/ flour and used in baking . http://toadstoolmushroomgazer.blogspot.com/2014/07/day-lilly-salad.html

• Salad pitas - Salad with home made oil and vinegar dressing  . My favorite is with apple cider vinegar and  herbs( oregano, basil, parsley and nutritional yeast )  in a warm pita is one of my favorite meals ! 

• Veggie couscous and quinoa - 1.) cook desired amount of quinoa using the basic directions(water and quinoa only ) 2.) cook desired amount of couscous with just water (I do a 1:1 ratio of couscous and quinoa 3.) I combine the two in a large bowl . 4. Add desired veggies , I like shredded carrots, sugar snap peas, and frozen organic corn . 5. Add black pepper to taste and a small amount of celtic sea salt

• Apple Trail mix http://youtu.be/XeSvdg2o1Bs

• Mango Trail Mix  http://youtu.be/6CE1mnTFMTU

• Cucumber lemongrass soup ( chilled soup - great for summer!)

  Ingredients:

Aprox. 2/3 C. plain so delicious brand coconut creamer

1 large cucumber

enough organic soy milk to reach cucumber slices in blender

1 oz. fresh lemongrass 

1/3 c. fresh dill ( or to taste) 

Directions:

1. slice cucumber 
2. put coconut creamer in bottom of blender along with a small amount of soymilk so you have about 2/3 c. of liquid in the bottom 
3. cut lemongrass into 1 inch pieces . 
4. add cucumber and lemongrass to blender
5. pour in soymilk 
6. using scissors cut dill into blender 
7. blend until well blended and frothy

Optional - ( additional pieces of cucumber would probably be delicious to as chunks in the soup ) 

Videos on Beltane : 

https://youtu.be/EE71WA-txgo?list=PL-IHHt9UyWWtk3lhZy_BiqQOyptPNdyHG

https://youtu.be/GztFG75IGx8?list=PL-IHHt9UyWWtk3lhZy_BiqQOyptPNdyHG

Vegan make up and hygiene - https://youtu.be/thDdn6Bmuz8

Vegan hygiene Men's stuff too ! - https://youtu.be/tcFzx65F3H8