Alison Ritchie

09/02/2025

It’s that time of year again! 🍜

08/28/2025

Every cell, every system, every rhythm inside you is influenced by the Earth’s cycles — by the shifting light, the changing temperatures, and the food that grows in each season. This isn’t a bunch of new age fluff, my friends. It’s physiology. 🍂

Your circadian biology, your hormones, your digestion, your nervous system — they’re all designed to respond to the great turning of the wheel, and I want to share with you what I’ve learned about moving WITH this shift, and not against it.

Late Summer to Autumn is my favourite spoke on the wheel. Here where I am in Canada the turning is very distinct and the seasonal shift is palpable. What is going on though? How do the geese know when to start heading south? How does the squirrel know to double down on putting food away for winter? There is no one telling them what to do…. They are hardwired to shift with the season.

And so for humans, in all our advancements and evolution, we broke natural law by overriding these shifts and operating on one speed all year round. Extracting and exploiting our life force and rhythms to feed the machine.

Reclaim your time and design your life in a way that respects natural law so you can flow when you’re meant to flow, and rest when you’re meant to rest, and create when the inspiration strikes!

Come join me! Type WHEEL 👇🏽 and I’ll send you the details. Early bird ends August 31st.

08/16/2025

Really..?

Spraying woodlands would increase the amount of flammable material, compounding already high wildfire risks during a drought that has greatly diminished rivers and water supplies needed to extinguish fires.

08/16/2025

Please read and support your local farmers.

$250,000 for a single acre. That is what developers are offering for my farm. At first glance, it sounds like a dream. But for me, it’s a reminder of the pressure closing in on farms like mine. Our land sits in a place they call a “land shortage” area, where open fields are quickly disappearing to make way for houses and shopping centers.
My farm is 313 years old. For the past 92 years, my family has cared for it, just as three families did before us. We’ve worked these fields through good harvests and bad storms, trusting the soil to give back what we put into it. Developers visit often, talking about how many houses they could build here. But they don’t see the history, the sweat, the long nights, or the generations of love that are rooted in this ground.

Farming is not easy. It demands everything from you—your strength, your patience, your hope. Yet it’s a life I would never trade. There is a quiet joy in planting seeds, caring for them, and watching them grow into food that feeds not only my family but my neighbors too. Even in the hardest years, when nature works against us, farmers rise again with a new season ahead.

As the New Year begins, I want to ask you to add one more resolution to your list—support your local farms.

Here’s how you can make a difference:
• Cook at home more and let farm-fresh produce guide your meals.
• Buy a farm share through a CSA and invest in your local growers.
• Choose milk from nearby dairies.
• Visit farmers markets close to your home or work.
• Spend a day at a farm and meet the people who grow your food.

Once farmland is developed, it’s gone forever. The only way farms can survive is if their communities stand with them. Every choice you make at the market is a vote for the future you want—one that keeps green fields, fresh food, and hardworking farmers alive.

Let’s make that future possible. Choose local. Eat local. Support the hands that feed you.

08/16/2025

The gatherers we are 🌱🖤

08/13/2025

Life through my lens these past few weeks.
Stewarding life, hosting wild feminine retreats in the forest, and trying to navigate this crazy time with an open heart and mind. I’m committed to adding beauty to your feed to balance out all the sh*te. 😉☺️
Anyway, here’s to soaking up every last drop of summer while it’s here. The seasons will be shifting soon and I have a little offering coming very soon about just that! Let’s stay connected outside of IG, shall we? Get my fr€€ €book *7 Powerful Herbs for your Medicine Garden* and I’ll sign you up for my list! You can find it in my B I O

02/20/2025

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.”
― Suzy Kassem
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02/19/2025

Truth ✨

Spring planting is around the corner....❤

02/19/2025

For every big-name herb on the market cut from the rainforest or dug from the mountains, there is most likely a plant with a similar action growing in your backyard. 🌱
The more I learn about herbal medicine and light, the more I know these slides to be true! Utilizing the plants that share the same light story as you is more important than we realize. Being dialled into your environment by means of local food and herbs helps you find balance in that place.
I know it’s alluring to want to consume plants from the Amazon, Himalayas, or far away lands that have exotic names - and don’t get me wrong there is a time and place for it all - but don’t lose site of what is right in front of you!
Up here where I am in the North, we have our own power plants that are attuned to the harsher climate and short light cycles. Essentially when we take in herbs, we are looking for it to help us find our own homeostasis - we borrow the intelligence from that plant, so it only makes sense to source locally.
Slides reposted fromof.insta 🍀