Herbal Remedies for Fall and Winter
Is your home apothecary ready for fall and winter? With cold and flu season around the corner, it’s time to prepare your herbal medicines. Here are three of my time-tested, go-to herbal remedies for fall and winter. These easy and effective recipes use common...
Earth Medicine: How Does the Earth Heal You?
How does the earth heal you? What is earth medicine, and how do you bring it deeper into your life? We talk about the weather. We talk about traffic. We talk about what we’re going to eat for lunch … But do we talk about how the earth heals us? Do we talk about the...
Herbal Salt: The Easiest Way to Add Medicinal Herbs to Every Meal
If you’re looking to integrate medicinal plants into your life, herbalizing your kitchen is an essential part of bringing herbalism alive. Fortunately, getting medicinal herbs into every meal is really easy. What you want to do is make herbal salt… Most people...
Sleepy Time Honey: Herbal Honey for Sleep
How do you use honey in your kitchen? In whatever way you eat or drink honey, you can enhance its medicinal qualities by adding herbs to it. Making herbal honey for sleep is easy, and you can use it to make a tea to help clean out the day and pave the way for a good...
Simple Ways to Connect with Nature This Summer
It’s summer vacation! We’re swimming. We’re jumping off the dock. We’re playing volleyball. We’re surfing, water skiing, kayaking. It’s so fun, right? This is also a great time to connect with nature in summer. When we come to the water and into the sun, we are healed...
Tongue Scraping: What Are the Benefits?
Have you heard of tongue scraping? Let’s talk about a tongue scraper, how to use it, how not to use it, and the benefits of tongue scraping. What This Has to Do with Herbal Medicine You might be wondering, what does this have to do with herbal medicine? Using herbs is...
Two Simple Tips to Stay Healthy During Wildfire Smoke
During a fire, our lungs take a big hit from the smoke and debris. We typically think about supporting our lungs in terms of wearing a mask, staying indoors, or even taking herbs, like my Firestorm Tea recipe. There’s a lot of great information out there on how to...
Summer Peach Smoothie Recipe with Lavender and Honey
Do you love peach season as much as I do? This peach smoothie recipe comes from my book, The Herbal Kitchen, and it’s a wonderful way to celebrate this delicious summer fruit. Kids love making smoothies too, so you can get the whole family involved in making...
How to Communicate with Plants: One Simple Technique to Connect with the Earth
Humans are wired for deep communication and connection with plants and the earth. However, for many of us, this skill is a little bit dormant or wasn’t nurtured when we were growing up. Let’s explore one simple method for how to communicate with plants and trees....
Ethical Wildcrafting: What Rules Should We Follow for Wild Harvesting?
The herbal movement is happening! Right now, hundreds of thousands of families are awakening to the amazing healing power of plants. Alongside this, we need to start having the conversation about where our plants come from. What do we need to know if we want to...
When to Harvest Lavender & How to Use Lavender Leaves
If you want to use lavender in your herbal teas, oils, baths and other medicines, you might be wondering which part of the plant to use. People often ask me, do you only use the flowers? Can you use lavender leaves? And when do you harvest which one? Check out the...
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