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How to Dry Herbs: Dehydrator vs. Air Drying

The way you dry your herbs determines the quality of what you keep. Poorly dried herbs (too slow, too hot, too much light, or stored before completely dry) lose their volatile compounds, their color, and much of their medicinal value. Well-dried herbs, stored...

Burdock: The Overlooked Root That the Herbalist Loves

Arctium lappa is the plant most people recognize by its round, hooked seed heads (burs) that attached enthusiastically to clothes and animal fur throughout the autumn walks of childhood. The plant that produces those burs is less well known: a tall, large-leaved...

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...

Root Harvesting Season: A Practical Guide

Root harvest is one of the most satisfying and most physically demanding parts of the herbalist’s year. The principle is straightforward: when a perennial plant has finished its above-ground season and is pulling its energy back down into the root for winter...

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