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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...

Making Fire Cider at Home

Fire cider is a preparation that has been made in American folk herbalism for decades, popularized by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, though the tradition of strong, warming vinegar-based immune preparations goes back much further in various folk traditions. It is made...

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...

Warming Spice Blends for Autumn: Medicine in the Kitchen

Autumn has its spice palette, and it is not merely aesthetic. The warming, aromatic spices that appear in pumpkin pies, mulled wines, and seasonal drinks through the autumn and winter months are genuinely medicinal plants that the body benefits from at exactly this...

Warming Herbal Preparations for the Darkest Weeks

There are preparations that are appropriate for every season, and then there are preparations that are specifically for December: the month when the light is at its shortest, the cold is at its most sustained, and the body and spirit both benefit from deliberate,...

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