Your local patch
Environmental action starts locally: being aware of your own environment, and connecting with it. As we go deeper into Druidry, exploring the spirit and creativity all around us, many find themselves drawn to a particular patch of nature that holds a special place in their everyday lives, and where they can give back.
Snowdrops at Braziers Park
Photo by Kestrel
This needn’t be special in the conventional sense of the word. Not everyone is lucky enough to live next to an ancient woodland or meadow or moor, where the wildness of the place is allowed to sing relatively unchecked (although these are wonderful). Your local patch may be as simple as a pond, a stretch of riverbank, a group of trees or a single woody soul, a scrubby bit of wasteland, a bit of farmland, even a compost heap. It could be in the scramble of the city, hemmed in by stone and fumes; it could be in the wilderness. It could be where you have walked, picked up litter or done conservation work, then felt drawn to go back, to develop relationship. There are no limits here: the important things are connection and intention.
This section of the website is here for Druid Network members to record their own experiences of thier local environment, their connection to the land. Where is your special local patch of nature, of spirits of the place where you live? What are its stories, its ancestors? Why is it important to you? What do you do to honour it, to help it? What is it that inspires you about your local environment?
By telling others of your experience, in whatever way you would like, you may inspire others to do the same. A simple paragraph, a story, an essay, a poem, a photo, a drawing or painting, it’s up to you.
Please send your material to the Environmental Projects Co-ordinator and we will put it onto these webpages.
