The Seeds of Love A Song Pilgrimage

A 1-Day Pilgrimage to Re-Wild an Ancient Song
And Discover the Secrets of its Living Echo…
Saturday, October 11th 2025

5 miles - 10am-4.30 pm

Come join us on a guided song pilgrimage through Somerset’s ancient landscape, to discover the healing nature of traditional song and rewild one of the first collected love songs of the Folksong Revival.

‘The Seeds of Love’ is the traditional song that Cecil Sharp collected from John England, the gardener of Hambridge, back in 1903. This song sparked Sharp’s entire song-collecting career, and the national folksong movement that followed.

Our pilgrimage aims to take this song home, to re-wild it in the landscape that bore it. Sharp collected this song and took it to London, arranging and publishing it, dressing it in black tie.

So on this pilgrimage, we return the song to the waterways and tree roots from which it was born.

The aim of our pilgrimage is to learn and sing this song together as a gift to the landscape, culminating in a visit to where the song was collected - the church in the small village of Hambridge.

We’ll be singing the song back to the natural landscape, taking time to encounter and understand the song’s original meaning. As well as its melody and historic relevance, this is a song that talks about relationships, the limitations and patterns we create and perpetuate within them.

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