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Dr Clare Lesley Hughes
@clarelesleyhughes.bsky.social
Spiritual Ecologist & Wortcunner
My beautiful friend has shed almost all her leaves 💛🤍🤎
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Aurora was so bright, she was shining through the clouds ❤️🩷
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Next Rootstock workshop at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social will be on the 10th December at 2pm and will be exploring the folklore of Yarrow and the Yew 🌿
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It’s so difficult to capture the absolute beauty of my birch tree in the autumn. The leaves are forming a carpet of pale yellow diamonds outside my house 💛
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
All ready to make some enchanted and entangled art 🌿 @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Photo from last night’s (Samhain) herbal tea and folklore session at Pool Bridge Farm. This beautiful weeping willow took centre stage and we hope she enjoyed our company as much as we enjoyed hers 🔥🪾
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My Samhain blog about the Liminal Yew 💀

www.herbalhegemone.co.uk/post/the-lim...
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Join me for the first Rootstock workshop at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social in conjunction with the Living Lab on 4th November at 2pm. Meet me at Future You (formally Launchpad) to explore the vitality and folklore of the campus plant species 🪾✨🌿
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The dusk growing before a Herbal Tea Mindfulness Workshop. When we finished, 90 minutes later, the stars were out ✨
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thank you to everyone who came to my ecospiritual session at the beautiful Howsham Mill

We met a beautiful old hawthorn tree & were blessed with some gypsywort which initial research shows was used to make dye and also protects against witches (it ended up with me so the latter can’t be true). 🌿🍂🪾
October 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Red Ruby Lanterns or Yew berries ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Places still available for next Sunday

Living Landscape Mindfulness Session www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-lan...
Living Landscape Mindfulness Session
Foster a deeper connection with the landscape and plants around you at this interactive ecospiritual mindfulness session
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
For all the vegan witches 💚
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Dr Clare Lesley Hughes
📣Curiositas is calling for papers!

Our first issue, Origins, is seeking your submissions for our May 2026 publication.

If you have any questions, please visit our website (link in bio) for full submission guidance or get in touch via email [email protected].
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Free tickets available now 👻 @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Spent a lovely Freshers Fair day at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social on the Living Lab stall talking to people about Ecospirituality, sustainability and ecological justice.
September 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My equinox gathering turned into a solo event in the end. Still a very profound experience at the Druid’s Temple and Thornborough Henges.

The best part - standing in the middle of a Neolithic henge with the Yorkshire Dales on my left and the North York Moors on my right
September 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
www.herbalhegemone.co.uk/post/the-aut...

I was reminded recently of the perfection that is the oak acorn sitting in its little cup. The oak tree is particularly revered at this time & a quick trawl through my books also revealed some interesting stories about the folklore of acorns (click link)
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On the 24th September, I will be at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Freshers Fair on the Living Lab stall to talk about the Rootstock project. This will be a series of interactive ecospiritual workshops exploring the folklore and sensory vitality of the campus green spaces.
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Chuffed to have a paper published in Issue 7 of Cultivate - The Feminist Journal of the Centre for Women’s Studies

Free PDF download here 💚

www.cultivatefeministjournal.com/issue-7-spac...
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Join me for a Living Landscape Mindfulness Session at the beautiful Howsham Mill on Sunday October 12th 2025 at 11am. Howsham Mill is an 18th century watermill on the banks of the River Derwent.
Please visit my website to book a place at www.herbalhegemone.co.uk/product-page...
September 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Buzzing after a wonderful Herbal Tea Mindfulness Session at the beautiful Riverdale Lodges & Riverdale Rural Holidays ☕️🌿 Lovely surroundings and lovely people.
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM