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5 Herbal Body Care Products to Buy or DIY
Do you enjoy making your own herbal bath and body care products at home? Making luscious lotions, healing salves, heavenly soaps and other goodies can be rewarding, but usually DIY instructions are for bulk batches that make several bottles, jars, or bars of one recipe at once. Sometimes it’s nice to have a favorite herbal…
What is Herbalist Day, also known as Thank an Herbalist Day?
Everyone has a unique story of their own herbal journey. Herbs touch so many lives – they are there for people of all ages and f...
Learn About Essential Oils for Free: EO Summit
Want to learn more about essential oils? You’re going to want to mark May 11 – 18 in your calendars for the FREE EssentialÂ...
Herbs Work With Us
Herbs work with us, not against us. They can be subtle as they build us up over time, but they stand with us as we move forward. They support our health rather than mask our symptoms, and require that we are honest with ourselves as they give us the support we need. Herbs like elderberry…
Spring Reads for Children
Reading with children is a wonderful way to feed their imaginations and open their eyes to new ideas. Reading about the natural world with children — well, that’s just magical. There is something about the way their eyes light up and their natural curiosity is piqued that makes exploring nature with children through books especially…
Support Herbs and United Plant Savers with Your Herbal Studies
The Herbal Academy of New England is a proud supporter of United Plant Savers, which is why we have joined with them in their Part...
Treating Fevers Naturally
Because there is such a huge interest in natural wellness for family health, specifically children’s issues, we just have t...
Best of 2014
Ready or not! Another year comes to an end and we’re thrown into 2015… We reflect on this past year – the new additions to our team, the launch of the Online Introductory Herbal Course, the summer website redesign, the release of The Herbarium membership site, and the handful of workshops we hosted here in Bedford,…
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds Review + Giveaway
One of the reasons folks are drawn down the path of herbalism is the powerfully moving experience of reconnecting with wild plants. Humans have co-evolved with plants for millennia and we clearly could not survive without them. But our need for plants goes well beyond oxygen, breakfast, lunch, and dinner — our relationship with plants…
St. Hildegard of Bingen
St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast day we celebrate with vigor every September 17, was not only a brilliant composer, artist, an...
