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Making Herbal Gifts: Salves, Tinctures, and Teas

There is a category of gift that is not available in any shop: the one that came from your hands, from your knowledge, from the herbs you grew or gathered or sourced with care. Handmade herbal gifts are genuinely useful, genuinely thoughtful, and carry something that...

Holy Basil Through Winter: The Year-Round Adaptogen

Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) may have finished in the garden by November, cut down by the first frost, but the jars of dried tulsi on the apothecary shelf and the tincture bottles filled in summer carry the plant’s gifts forward into winter in concentrated,...

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...

An Elderberry and Warming Spice Syrup for Winter

The classic elderberry syrup recipe (berries, water, honey, and perhaps a cinnamon stick and a few cloves) is already excellent. But the warming spice version, built with intention around the specific medicinal properties of each addition, is something more layered...

Herbs for Seasonal Low Mood: What the Dark Months Ask

The shortened days of autumn and winter produce measurable physiological changes in most humans: shifts in circadian rhythm, changes in sleep architecture, decreased serotonin and dopamine activity (both influenced by light exposure), and for a significant minority,...

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