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Late Summer Harvesting: Roots, Seeds, and Berries to Gather Now

August is when the character of the harvest changes. The flowers of high summer are giving way to seeds and berries, and beneath the ground the roots are beginning to pull their energy back down after the flowering season, concentrating their constituents in...

The Autumn Apothecary: Stocking Up for the Season

September has a particular urgency to it in the herbalist’s calendar. The elderberries are ripe. The roots are beginning to concentrate. The last of the summer herbs need to be preserved. And the cold season, with all its demand for immune support, warming...

Hawthorn Berry Season: Harvest, Prepare, and Use

By September, the hawthorn hedgerows that covered themselves in white blossom in May are heavy with clusters of deep red haws, the small round berries that are among the most medicinally significant wild fruits available to the forager in Northern Europe. The window...

Elderberry Season: Everything You Can Do With a Basket of Berries

The elder trees that covered themselves in white blossom in May are now, in September, hanging heavy with clusters of deep purple-black berries. This is one of the most rewarding moments in the foraging and herbal calendar: an abundant, accessible, well-distributed...

The Autumn Equinox in the Herb Garden

The autumn equinox arrives in late September with a quality that is different from any other moment in the garden calendar. The light is level, day and night equal, and the balance point between the expanding and contracting halves of the year is visible and felt in...

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