oh the trees
( Cottonwood buds, oozing with this propolis like resin are at an ideal stage for harvest ) My deepest and oldest plant relationships lie...
Wintertime
Fall has been gentle this season, offering us warmth, rain, and a little extra time to prepare for the long and inevitable winter ahead....
Abundance
(Delicious black raspberry Italian sodas garnished with herbs and flowers) Each summer I am dazzled by the enormous explosion of life...
Tradition not trademark.
A good friend and herbalist, farmer, activist, teacher (she is amazing!), Mary Blue and two other herbalists have been sued by Shire City...
The language of flowers...
Today my mother, child and I picked black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) blossoms together after happening upon one marvelous tree. We...
spring ephemerals: a psa on ramps
(above: day lillies, Hemerocallis fulva. a great alternative to ramps) These are the kind of springs I cherish. A slow moving spring,...