Category: Herbal Medicine

A common wildflower across the United States, yarrow’s white-to-pink flowers are easy to spot in fallow fields and roadsides. The leaves of this medicinal plant ...

Last year I started what I hope will expand into a medicinal botanical sanctuary. Besides the classic culinary herbs, rosemary, sage and thyme, which make ...

In the “Back 20” we have a field of uncultivated wildness. I love to wander there in the early morning. The Farmer, my hub, has ...

I am an endless optimist. I believe we can have access to the amazing technologies we’ve developed, and stay sustainable, too – but only if ...

Love, death, rebirth – such is the cycle of fertility and renewal. Perhaps none knew this better than the Mesoamerican cultures that dwelled in present-day ...

My husband and I took a day off together.  A rare thing for us in the summer, since he spends many hours farming and farmer’s-marketing. ...

It was such a natural pleasure to interview Christopher Hobbs this week and pick his brain on some much-debated issues surrounding the chaga mushroom.  Author ...

The key to using natural remedies against common winter-time illnesses is catching initial symptoms and having the right remedy at arm’s length.  Recognizing symptoms early ...

Tulsi, aka Sacred Basil, ocimum tenuiflorum has been used for thousands of years for medicine and as part of religious ceremonies in India.  Of the ...

This delicate, bright and cheerful plant is not often thought of when one thinks of herbal medicine.  Even so its medicine is both gentle and ...