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A Year in the Herb Garden: What It Taught

December is when the year in the garden becomes visible as a whole. From the seeds started in March to the root harvests of October, from the elderflower of May to the elderberry of September, from the first nettles of spring to the last of the dried lavender in the...

How to Start a Herbal Journal

A herbal journal is both a practical record and a meditative practice, and its value compounds over time in a way that is genuinely surprising when you look back at an earlier volume. The note about the nettle harvest in March that seemed unremarkable when you wrote...

Herbal Bitters: The Lost Art of the Digestive Tonic

Bitters have a history that runs through virtually every culture that has developed a sophisticated relationship with plants and with the digestive system. The ancient Greeks valued bitter plants for stimulating digestion. Ayurveda recognizes bitter as one of the six...

Mullein: The Lung Herb of Ancient Standing

Verbascum thapsus is one of the most visually distinctive plants in the British and European landscape: a tall, stately biennial that sends up a rosette of large, woolly grey-green leaves in its first year, then a tall spike of yellow flowers up to two meters high in...

Building a Herbal First Aid Kit

A herbal first aid kit is not a replacement for conventional first aid supplies and medical care when they are needed. It is a complement: a curated set of preparations for the minor acute situations that most households encounter regularly, where plant medicine is...

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