The Three Kings Preparation
The Three Kings Preparation is centred around the precious gifts brought by the three kings from the East:
Gold: a symbol of worldly wisdom
Frankincense: a devotional offering to the Gods
Myrrh: a symbol for the victory of life over death
The ancients held these three substances as symbols of awareness for the spiritual events taking place behind the outer physical phenomena. When prepared in the right way these three holy substances were believed to also serve as gifts to the earth and to the elemental world.
The preparation is made by hand on New Year’s Eve and then traditionally spread on the boundaries of the farm on Epiphany, January 6th.
Regardless of differing beliefs, secular, religious and everything in-between, it is an opportunity for our farmers to come together and walk the land, acknowledging and thanking it for supporting the whole farm and the wider community.
