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Getting Your Medicinal Garden Ready: April Tasks

April is the pivot month for the medicinal herb garden. Everything that was dormant is waking up, the ground is becoming workable in most temperate climates, and the decisions you make in the next few weeks will determine the abundance and quality of your harvest...

Plantain: The Weedy Little Healer in Your Lawn

Plantago major (broadleaf plantain) and Plantago lanceolata (narrow-leaf or ribwort plantain) are two of the most common and most universally overlooked medicinal plants in the temperate world. They grow in lawns, between pavement cracks, at path edges, and in the...

Midsummer Harvesting Guide: What’s Ready Right Now

The weeks around the summer solstice are the peak harvest window for a remarkable range of medicinal herbs, and the herbalist who is paying attention is busy. The light is long, the volatile oil content of aromatic herbs is at its highest in summer warmth, and the...

Herbs for Skin in Summer: Sun, Heat, and Plant Allies

Summer is simultaneously the season when the skin gets the most use and the most abuse: sun exposure, heat, insect bites, swimming in chlorinated water, and the general combination of outdoor activity and environmental stress that the season delivers. The medicinal...

Elderflower Preparations: Beyond Cordial

Elderflower cordial is one of Britain’s great summer traditions, and it is genuinely delicious. But most people who make the cordial do not realize that the same flower heads, processed differently, yield preparations that are medicinally significant and...

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