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The Piggery Barn ✦
Tucked away here on Dartmoor, this little self-contained barn has welcomed many wonderful guests over the past few years.
A place to wake slowly, make a cup of tea, wander through the garden and spend a few days immersed in colour, creativity and the landscape.
It is the final accommodation space remaining for our July Gathering.
Over the weekend we’ll be working with indigo, natural colour, cloth, plants and seasonal creative practices, whilst sharing meals, conversation and time together in this beautiful corner of Dartmoor.
If you’ve been quietly considering joining us, perhaps this is your invitation.
With love,
Babs ✦
A few moments from our June Gathering on Dartmoor.
Three days spent working with indigo, plant colour, woodblock printing, handmade inks, flowers, cloth and the landscape around us.
One of the greatest gifts of these weekends is always the people who gather.
The conversations around the table, the shared meals, the laughter, the moments of quiet concentration and the collective delight when colour finally reveals itself.
Thank you to this wonderful group for such a beautiful weekend.
There is now just one place remaining for our July gathering, staying in the self-contained Piggery Barn.
See link in bio for full deets ✨
With love,
Babs
17/05/2026
Elder carries the medicine of thresholds.
Of protection, boundaries, ancestral remembering and ancient knowing.
Its soft spring greens feel connected with tenderness, reclamation and the gentle returning to self after periods of grief, disconnection or difficult passage.
A plant of deep listening.
Of softening frozen edges.
Of restoring relationship with vulnerability while strengthening psychic boundaries.
A tree long associated with liminal spaces and crossings — supporting movement through transition, uncertainty and transformation.
The fresh young leaves also offer something quietly unusual within natural colour work:
a direct spring green.
A fleeting chlorophyll green emerging briefly without the need to overdye indigo and yellow — soft, luminous and seasonally alive.
This month Elder becomes the plant guide for Colour Rituals — my seasonal online practice space exploring intentional colour work through plants, creativity, ritual and relationship with the living world.
Alongside the free monthly Colour Rituals offerings, I’ve also quietly opened a deeper practice space for those wishing to journey further into the science, chemistry, ecology, symbolism, alchemy and ancient traditions of plant colour work.
Sign up before the Full Moon in two weeks to receive this lunation’s full Elder leaf greens colour ritual, teachings and plant monograph.
More information and sign up via the link in bio.
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A little glimpse around the cottage and studio here at
Studio tables, quiet corners, evening light across the moor, flowers in the garden, shared meals, fire circles and slow creative weekends unfolding through the summer season.
This place has gradually become a space for gathering, making, resting and reconnecting — with colour, craft, nature and one another.
There are now only 4 remaining places across this summer’s June & July retreats.
With love from the moor,
Babs
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