PA South West’s Harvest Festival Hampers were donated to a most worthy cause; Bath PTSD Camp for Veteran’s.

This place is incredible, it’s totally free for any veteran that is in need of support. You can pop in for an hour or stay the week. We were warmly welcomed by Jo, Dion and other vets on site, and spent hours chatting with them.

The establishment have tried to ruin the amazing work these good people are doing, so please give them your support.

You can find them on Twitter @Campforptsdsuf3

There is also a go fund page, to repair the damage which the police have caused to their facilities.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-the-camp-for-ptsd-sufferers-bath

Lastly, I like to thank all of the PA community, for your generous donations and support which made this possible.

Survival Gardening: The Backyard Homestead

With raised bed gardens, high density planting, and some planning small yards can be converted to generate food for your family.

Quarter Acre can harvest:
1400 eggs
2000 pounds of vegetables
280 pounds of pork
50 pounds of wheat
60 pounds of fruit
75 pounds of nuts

Source: The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You need on Just a Quarter Acre.

Scarecrows are not actually used to scare crows, the clever birds don't fall for such tricks. In actuality the Scarecrow is actually a pagan idol used to reference a Fertility God or spirit. In Greece an early version was put up in honor of Priapus, in Germany they represented the spirit of the field and Frau Harke a Saxon Goddess was depicted as a scarecrow during Carnival. It has also been referenced as connected to gods like Wode, a Corn god. In Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore The Butzemann is a Scarecrow given the breath of life and protects the field, he is activated on Groundhog Day and retired on Halloween, lest his plant spirit be plucked by the Wild Hunt and a more mischievous Nature spirit enter the scarecrow body. There are also numerous festivals and traditions surrounding Scarecrows often corresponding to Harvest periods, a callback to ancient fertility rites.-TLK

A church donation in Somerset.

We have just reached 100 pictures for Harvest Festival! Thank you so much to everybody who has taken part so far.

To view our weekend of nationwide activism, please visit: https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/harvest_festival