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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...

How to Make a Healing Herbal Broth

Herbal broth is the preparation that lives most naturally at the intersection of cooking and medicine. It is soup’s more deliberate ancestor: a slow-simmered liquid that extracts the mineral, medicinal, and nutritive properties of both food ingredients and...

Making Herbal Vinegars: A Practical Guide

Herbal vinegars occupy a curious position in home herbalism: they are among the oldest preparation methods (vinegar-based medicines appear in the Greek medical texts), they extract a different profile of plant constituents than either water or alcohol, they are...

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...

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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