About Us

The Moonshare Cooperative began in September 2007. Its founder members met to pool their enthusiasm and ideas for a new UK Diary that aimed to be a network and resource for the Earth lovers, environmentalists, artists, writers and activists of our UK alternative community. We sent out a call for any artists and writers who would like to contribute, mostly drawn from our own friends, but quickly spreading out into the wider community.

Originally we were to be a Moon Diary and we had the idea of selling 'Moon Shares' to raise the considerable sum needed to print the diary in full colour. These Moon Shares are in fact a loan, which we will pay back as soon as we sell the diaries and make the money back from the printing cost.

We wish to thank everyone who so generously bought 'Moon Shares'. At the time of writing this we are almost ready to go to print and we have all the money we need. We would not have got here without your support and faith in us and the diary.

Some of the contributors also very generously gave us a voluntary donation towards the printing costs and we value these contributions enormously and your vote of confidence and support.

We also had the idea of selling pre-paid diaries and this too has added to the money for the printing being raised.

So a very BIG THANK YOU to everyone for your support! XXXXXX

We are now registered as an Industrial Provident Society. All profits from the Earth Pathways Diary will return to the Moonshare Co-operative for future projects that raise awareness and healing for the Earth.

Founder Members:

Glennie Kindred
gleniekindred@w3z.co.uk
www.glenniekindred.co.uk

Born in Nottingham, living in Derbyshire. Mother, Grandmother, Lover of Life! I am an artist, author, celebrant, events co-ordinator and teacher. I love working and playing with trees and living close to Nature and her Spirit. I Love connecting to the Divine Energy and Essence of Life!

I Love meditation, singing, toning, drumming, dancing, joyfulness, walking, gardening, networking, the sea, the hills, organic food, giving workshops and celebration! I Love being part of this growing consciousness shift that is uniting us in Love and an awareness of the interconnected Web of Life we all share and create together.

Jaine Rose
www.jainerose.co.uk

I am an artist, a mother, a witch and aromatherapist, living happily amongst a wonderful community in Stroud, Gloucestershire. I spend my days honouring Mother Earth through my work, my garden and my growing family. I find inspiration in many things - summer festivals, the beautiful women in my Women's Circles, and this sacred Brigit's Isles in which I find myself.

I am continually amazed by the unusual people I meet on my journey - I am so excited and priviledged to be alive in this time of the 'Great Turning' - an awakening of our human impact on our planet, a chance to create more sustainable and peaceful ways of living together. Meanwhile I live and breathe the beauty of the Goddess in all things.

Hannah Willow
willowhannah@gmail.com
www.willowjewellery.moonfruit.co.uk
www.slipperyjacks.co.uk

I live in the Wiltshire countryside close by Stonehenge, and this primordial landscape of hills, tumuli, barrows and stone circles is a great influence in my work. I paint and make silver jewellery celebrating the ancient landscape and the life upon it, trees, hares, deer and many other of our native inhabitants.

I also work with a group of women on the Scarsister sacred and ritual tattoo weekends. Contact me for details.

Lucille Valentine
lucille.valentine@gmail.com

I gratefully join in the re-knitting of the world as a practicing astrologer and writer. Gazing up the Tyne River Valley in Northumberland, where I live, I sometimes I sit in the sunshine and dream out loud, in spirals.

Ever since I was a girl on a farm in South Africa I have accepted the cycles of the earth and fate and the beauty of work, simplicity and eating home grown food.

Sharon Zak
sharon.zak@slipperyjacks.com
www.slipperyjacks.com

I grew up with a deep understanding of my connection to the land and I experienced her with a truth that guided my journey. One day I rejected the trappings of profession and possession, and gave it all away. It was the moment gifted by recovery that led me to embrace the spiritual in a way that I hadn't done before, I embraced it with all of me for the first time.

Now I write books that are drenched in love, they are an antidote and my gift. My wonderful husband, Dave, and I started Slippery's to help spread that message of love and we now live in a way that minimizes our impact on the environment, living in harmony with the spirits of the land.