Volume 1 * New Series * Number 1 Lammas 2026
By Mae Stewart · Originally published August 3, 2026.
Bendithion ar eich cynhaef!
(Blessings on your harvest)
Happy Lammas from Violet Street Station.
Newcomers, the winds blew you here to Violet Street Station; a place where you are likely to find what you need. Hope, comfort, or a slice of Bea’s Pineapple Upsidedown cake over in Ol’ Bea’s Southern Diner.
Around the Urban Lemonade
Our very own Harvest Early Grades Waldorf School invites you to attend their bake off at the school. Last year, The Rosemary Olive Loaf was divine.
Creative Invitation
This month’s writing prompt:
What seeds did you plant this year that are now ready to harvest?
Neighborhood Notice
- Cait Síth was seen asleep on the Platform Two bench Tuesday afternoon. She may have spotted Lugh’s arrival. Give him a Violet Street Station welcome when you cross paths.
- Mable requests all St Bernards stay out of her blackberry patch or there will be no trifles for Michaelmas. Sorry Greta, I think she’s looking at you.
- Mable also reminds us that she is taking inventory of the Community Cabinet and needs all borrowed items returned. I’m fuzzy on the protocol for items that re-homed themselves. Mable, nobody likes inventory, nobody.
The Lammas Table
The Community Harvest Table is busy, come on by and join the fish fry, grab some grilled corn, and indulge at the ever popular Cobbler Buffet.
Strength in Body, Mind, and Spirit is needed to finish the harvest of the seeds sowed this Spring. Harmony recommends this yoga flow by The Yogi Witch:
Watch the yoga flow by The Yogi Witch →
Around the Corner…
See Ya Saturday ☕
Creativity · Accountability · Community
Bring the project you’ve been promising yourself.
Most of us will be writing, but bring your knitting, drawing, or whatever else you’re making. See Ya Saturday is our weekly online gathering in The Tangled Teacup’s Tack Room—a quiet hour for keeping our creative promises to ourselves, with accountability, companionship, and good coffee wherever yours is brewing.
We’ll work quietly together for one hour.
Saturdays beginning October 3, 2026
9:00–10:00 a.m. Eastern
Register once and come whenever you can. You’ll receive your Zoom joining details by email. Use the calendar link in your confirmation to add the gatherings to your calendar.
See Ya Saturday is always free. Pull up a chair—there’s room for you at the table.
Writer’s Coffee Klatch
AWA style workshop on Zoom
Suggested contribution $15
Community contribution $5
- If a contribution isn’t possible for you right now, we’d still love to have you. Every gathering includes at least one Neighbor Seat if it’s yours this week, welcome.
🍋 Neighbor Seats
If you’d like to provide one for someone else, thank you.
If Urban Lemonade has nourished you and you’re able, thank you for helping set another place at the table.
Whatcha Reading
Urban Lemonade’s monthly book club at The Tangled Teacup. Pull up a chair. Tea’s on. Visit Whatcha Reading for current selections and gathering details →
This month:
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/lammas-night/id1797641862
This book has been on my bedside table since it was recommended by a Druid whose writing I enjoy. This is the Lammas I finally read it.
🌾 The Lemonade Stand Playlist
Lammas • First Harvest
Listen to Lammas First Harvest on Spotify →
- Harvest Moon – Neil Young
- The Parting Glass – The High Kings
- The Water Is Wide – Karla Bonoff
- Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
- Scarborough Fair – Celtic Woman
- The Lakes of Pontchartrain – Paul Brady
- Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
- Autumn Leaves – Eva Cassidy
- Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- A Home – The Chicks
- Wildflowers – Tom Petty
- Simple Gifts – Yo-Yo Ma & Alison Krauss
- Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
- The Luckiest – Ben Folds
- Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
- What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
- Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
- The Stable Song – Gregory Alan Isakov
- Better Together – Jack Johnson
Lost & Found
One brass key.
Found among the violets near Violet Street Station.
If it’s yours, you already know where to look.
From the Stationmaster
The 7:14 to Wherever-You-Need-Next is running right on time.
Until the next train arrives…
May Boann’s waters bring you inspiration.
May Brigid’s fire warm your hearth and guide your hands.
May Branwen’s starling send comfort where it is needed.
May every road remember your footsteps, and every welcome feel like home.
Editor’s Note
This appears to be the first surviving issue.
There are rumors of earlier editions, though no one agrees where they’ve gone.
Some insist they were lost in a station renovation. Others are certain Branwen’s starlings carried them away for safekeeping. A few maintain the papers simply appear when the neighborhood has something worth sharing.
Whatever the truth, welcome. We’re glad you found this one.
