Category: Spotlight Herbal Partners
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Ready to get your green thumb limbered up? Sew these seeds in March!
Here I am, gazing out the window at the sun. A few days ago, I was gazing out at three inches of snow. It melted that same day, but it was certainly indicative of the Winter wishy washiness of our lush wonderful PNW. However, that hasn’t stopped me from organizing new and saved seeds for…
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Ingredients in the Powerful Immunity Tincture or Oxymel.
Happy New Year my lovelies! I hope things are off to a good start for you. It’s been uncommonly cold here, but we are keeping warm indoors and venturing out only occasionally to tend to the birds and fish. However, we know in our souls that the days are getting longer again, and that is…
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Have you wondered about Yule? Do you love bringing the outdoors in and adding light to the dark months? I’m here to help!
For the first 90% of my life minus another 15% I have had apprehension about Christmas. Whether it was trying to bring that joy and wonderous trove of later to be memories for my children or trying desperately to give thoughtful resonating presents to loved ones. A few years back I decided, with intention, to…
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Fireweed would like to be your friend!
I’ve been out, enjoying Summer, working in the garden, enjoying the nature around me. However, I wanted to drop a line to talk about Fireweed! Have you ever driven around, perhaps in the mountains where a burn has occurred, perhaps where a little town fire in a local wood has happened in the past? Have…
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Grab a Turkey by its Tail, Trametes versicolor that is!
I recently learned that, yet another female friend has been diagnosed with breast cancer only this time it’s in 25 out of 28 of the surrounding lymph nodes. My brain instantly jumped to Turkey Tail. Having heard the stories from Paul Stamets about his mom and treating her with Turkey Tail while she was also…
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Rosemary, could you be any more mystical?
Little purple flowers, what is it about little purple flowers that signals healing. I couldn’t say for sure, but I am grateful every day that little purple flowers are a part of our lives. One such wonder herb that has LPF’s is Rosemary. Ahh the fragrance, the taste, the healing purpose. Originating in the Mediterranean…
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Wooly Mullein, furry fury of moonscapes!
I remember once upon a first time, driving around Winthrop, WA and seeing these plants with massive furry leaves, taller than me spires of yellow flowers and a basal rosette of growth that could be the envy of many. They seemed to grow right out of the place where the asphalt meets the gravel shoulder.…
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Wall Lettuce is nope lettuce!
Wall Lettuce!! Why?? Every Spring, I start to see many plants that grow initially just like Dandelion, fringy leaves, basal rosette as it emerges, green, early, weedy habits. It would seem that each year I get nipplewort and wall lettuce swapped in my mind. So, perhaps this post is for you, but maybe it’s just…
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Salmonberry, likely the most welcome berry!
Very recently, I led a class through one of our local parks. It was great, I met new people with like interests, they met each other, we all met the plants at our feet and on up into the sky! There was a point in which we were talking about Salmonberry, and I alluded to…
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Red (Purple) Dead Nettle, not so Dead.
Red dead nettle, also known as Lamium purpureum also known as purple dead nettle, is a herbaceous flowering plant that belongs to the mint family. While it is often considered a weed, it has a long history of medicinal and culinary use. During this time of year in the PNW, it’s cropping up all over…
Ministry of Making 