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Elderberry Syrup: Making the Best Immune Syrup at Home

Elderberry syrup is one of those preparations that sounds like it requires specialist equipment or expertise. It does not. At its most basic, it is simmered elderberries, honey, and warming spices combined into something that tastes extraordinary and is backed by more...

How to Make a Nourishing Herbal Infusion

A nourishing herbal infusion and a cup of herbal tea are related but distinctly different preparations. The difference comes down to quantity, time, and intention, and understanding it opens up one of the most practically valuable practices in all of home herbalism....

Herbal Honeys: Making Medicinal Infused Honey at Home

Honey and herbs have belonged together for as long as human beings have had access to both. Every ancient civilization that left medical records used honey as both medicine and preparation vehicle. The Egyptians made medicated honeys for wound dressing. Ayurveda...

Making a Simple Elderberry and Thyme Oxymel

An oxymel is honey and vinegar together as a vehicle for plant medicine. The word is ancient Greek and the preparation is at least as old as Hippocrates. In the winter context, there is no better combination of herbs for this format than elderberry and thyme: two...

Starting Seeds for the Medicinal Herb Garden

There is a particular pleasure in starting seeds: part anticipation, part faith. You are planting something in a small amount of compost and trusting that several weeks later it will have become a plant. For the medicinal herb grower, this act carries additional...

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