Cliff Seruntine

Cliff Seruntine is a naturalist, writer, fiddler, therapist, and homesteader whose nonfiction joins practical rural experience with a nature-centered spiritual outlook. Seasons of the Sacred Earth follows a year on the semi-remote Nova Scotia homestead where he settled with his wife, Daphne, and their daughters in 2007. Llewellyn published the book in 2013, describing a household that grows and raises food, learns from the surrounding forest, and observes the turning seasons through both work and ritual. The book's chapters connect gardening, animal care, woodland skills, family life, and the Wheel of the Year, making seasonal change the organizing principle rather than a backdrop. Seruntine's publisher biography also identifies him as a practicing shaman and teacher of bushcraft and homesteading. In interviews, he traces this perspective to childhood knowledge of wild plants, later years in Alaska, and the family's decision to live gently on the land. His prose treats ecology, daily labor, and enchantment as closely related ways of paying attention.