Results for Category: Garden Medicine

How To Compost: Getting Started Guide | Herbal Academy | Learn the basics of how to compost and the impact you can make by starting your own composting routine this year!
  ON April 14,2014

How to Compost: Getting Started Guide

Spring is finally starting to show its face in our corner of the world, and Earth Day is just around the corner. What better time to talk about ways to keep our lovely planet healthy? It may seem impossible, but each of us can make a difference, in small or large ways. “Food makes up…

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Companion Planting
  ON March 11,2014

Companion Planting Herbs

If you’ve been keeping up with our articles, have taken our Intermediate Herbal Course, or even have only just visited us for the first time, you probably already know how strongly we at the Herbal Academy believe herbs can improve our health and enrich our lives. But did you know that herbs can benefit the…

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Deter Garden Bugs
  ON March 05,2014

Deter Garden Bugs and Pests with Nontoxic Methods

When your neighbors see you walking through your garden spreading cayenne pepper and seaweed all around your crops, they may think that you’ve gone off the deep end. Gardens are for watering and spreading fertilizer, aren’t they? But sprinkling herbs around your herbal garden isn’t the work of a crazy person—it’s the work of a…

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  ON February 13,2014

Secrets To Transplanting Seedlings: 3 Tips To Success

Do you remember bringing a goldfish home from the pet store and placing it in the aquarium? You were probably told to keep it in the bag for the first half hour before releasing it, to help acclimate the fish to his new environment. Transplanting seedlings of herbs and other plants you plan to grow…

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  ON January 24,2014

The Greenhouse Is Always Greener

A visit to Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouse at Wellesley College. The sensation of sun rays shines onto the skin. The red-orange glow behind the eyelids pulses. The smell of sea spray mists the nose and the faint crash of waves is an ethereal lullaby. Oh, wait, hold that thought! It’s still winter, and unless the bank account…

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