Lammas

Here are some ideas for Lammas!! I hope you have a wonderful day! Lammas is celebrated on August 1st & is the first harvest festival of the year. A harvest festival is where bread baked from the first crop is blessed. Blessed Be.

Outside:

• Use this day to harvest vegetables and herbs outside

• Collect Berries to make bracelets and garlands

• Collect seeds for next season’s sowing

• Leave offerings as thanks for this year’s harvest

In the Home:

• Burn Frankincense, Rose or Sandalwood incense

• Fill the home with the smell of fresh-baked bread

• Leave bowls of sunflower seeds and nuts around the house to snack on

• Drink hoppy beers and ales

• Make apple candle holders

In the Kitchen:

• Make a sweet Cinnamon Braid Bread

• Bake a Wreath Bread or soda bread

• Make Lentil Pot Pie

• Make Elderberry Wine

• Make a corn and barley stew

• Feast on grains, seasonal vegetables, grapes, nuts and berries

In the Bath:

• Add skin-healing Calendula to your bath

• Surround yourself with yellow and orange candles

• Use a soothing moisturizing aloe lotion

On your Altar:

• Incorporate symbols of the harvest with things like corn and wheat

• Use shades of yellow, orange, gold and purple

• Decorate with apples, corn, and wheat

• Add yellow and golden stones likes citrine 

Links for the underlined things:

https://www.learnreligions.com/lammas-craft-projects-4136753

https://www.learnreligions.com/easy-decorating-ideas-for-mabon-2562269

https://book-ofshadows.tumblr.com/post/92859391454/lughnasadh-recipe-cinnamon-braid-bread-x

https://witchy-words.tumblr.com/post/113540159863/food52-thick-slices-only-rosemary-soda-bread-via

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/139119075962906028/