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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...

The Herbalist’s Approach to Cold and Flu Season

The herbalist’s approach to cold and flu season is fundamentally different from the reactive grab for whatever is on the pharmacy shelf when symptoms appear. It begins in September with preparation, responds at the very first sign of illness, and moves through a...

Warming Spice Blends for Autumn: Medicine in the Kitchen

Autumn has its spice palette, and it is not merely aesthetic. The warming, aromatic spices that appear in pumpkin pies, mulled wines, and seasonal drinks through the autumn and winter months are genuinely medicinal plants that the body benefits from at exactly this...

Making Herbal Gifts: Salves, Tinctures, and Teas

There is a category of gift that is not available in any shop: the one that came from your hands, from your knowledge, from the herbs you grew or gathered or sourced with care. Handmade herbal gifts are genuinely useful, genuinely thoughtful, and carry something that...

An Elderberry and Warming Spice Syrup for Winter

The classic elderberry syrup recipe (berries, water, honey, and perhaps a cinnamon stick and a few cloves) is already excellent. But the warming spice version, built with intention around the specific medicinal properties of each addition, is something more layered...

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