Green Way

August 1st is a day for celebrating the mid-summer harvest. Games and crafts are to be played. A toast to the Celtic god Lugh is to be offered up … may his manifold skills become ours. The fruits of the earth and the Bounty of Mother Earth should be honored.

Preparing for Lughanadsh, Lammas, The Summmer Harvest Festival

“Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
Remember me to one who lives there,
For she once she was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
Without any seam or fine needle work,
And then she’ll be a true love of mine.

Choose when you can an acre of land
As every plant grows merry in time
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
And then you shall be a true love of mine.

Plough it up with an old ram’s horn,
As every plant grows merry in time
Sow it all over with one grain of corn
And then you shall be a true love of mine.”
- Pagan Library of Poetry and Song