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(above: day lillies, Hemerocallis fulva. a great alternative to ramps) This is a post on ramps that I posted last spring, that feels even...

( Cottonwood buds, oozing with this propolis like resin are at an ideal stage for harvest ) My deepest and oldest plant relationships lie...

Fall has been gentle this season, offering us warmth, rain, and a little extra time to prepare for the long and inevitable winter ahead....

(Delicious black raspberry Italian sodas garnished with herbs and flowers) Each summer I am dazzled by the enormous explosion of life...

A good friend and herbalist, farmer, activist, teacher (she is amazing!), Mary Blue and two other herbalists have been sued by Shire City...

Today my mother, child and I picked black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) blossoms together after happening upon one marvelous tree. We...

(above: day lillies, Hemerocallis fulva. a great alternative to ramps) These are the kind of springs I cherish. A slow moving spring,...

We are in the last phases of winter here and it’s hard not to admire the changes that are occurring. The sun shining higher and longer in...

We've had our first snows here in Woodstock. The days have become slower paced, each act I engage in has become intentional based on...

The leaves are changing here in Woodstock. Even before the yellows, reds, and oranges came, the north winds blew in signaling an end of...