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Fall in Love with Our Delicious Pumpkin Spice Nice Cream!
Come autumn, come pumpkin pie spice. As we transition into crisp autumn days, slanted golden light, apple season, and sweater weather, our food, herb, and spicing choices shift accordingly. You may be bombarded with pumpkin spice everything at groceries stores as well as your local coffee shop. While pumpkin spice lattes have become a seasonal…
What’s the Difference Between Herbs and Spices?
Food and beneficial herbs and spices are deeply intertwined with each other – so much so that one can often be misunderstood as ...
A Toast With Spring Sting Nettle Cocktail From the Botanical Mixed Drinks Recipe Book
Herbalists Jane Metzger and Amber Meyers offer up a cocktail toast in the spirit of Herbalist Day with a fun and special celebrato...
An RSV Tea Formula to Assist as a Gentle and Soothing Expectorant
This soothing RSV Tea is a nice blend to have on hand for all of those respiratory viruses that have been rearing their ugly heads this winter! Especially useful for the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and safe for most children, the herbs in this tea blend act as a gentle expectorant, assisting the body in…
5 Ways to Prepare Flowers
The following aromatic plant excerpt on ways to prepare flowers is from the book, “Botanicals With Benefits: Develop a New Relationship With Your Garden: The Edible Flower Volume” by Kerry Hughes, and is reprinted with permission. Kerry Hughes, MS, principal for EthnoPharm (www.Ethnopharm.com), is an ethnobotanist, herbalist, and author with a 20-year record of success in natural…
DIY Old-Fashioned Beard Oil: A Perfect Father’s Day Gift
A child’s first hero, protector, provider, teacher, and best friend, a father figure can be such a guiding force in a child’s ...
A Mother’s Day Tribute to ALL Mamas!
Being a Mom looks different for everyone. Much like our herbalism journey, no two paths are the same. We asked some of our inspiri...
How To Make A Kid’s Fairy Garden With Foraged Materials
Raise your hand if you want to live in a tiny mushroom house in a magical forest (ME)! Surrounded by regal trees, waking up to dewy moss, serenaded by nature’s creatures…ah, the stuff fairytales are made of. According to my five-year-old, building a fairy house brings fairies to your house. Naturally, with that profound logic,…
DIY Savory Herbal Whipped Butter Recipe for Holiday Cooking
If you are looking for a special herbal indulgence to enjoy this season, herbal whipped butter is just the thing! You can make this ahead of time and store it in the fridge or freezer to have on hand when cooking or entertaining. Use it to cook in, spread it over squash before baking, dot…
Mugwort Dream Pillow for Natural Sleep Aid
Everybody wants to have good dreams, so what about combining good dreams with a natural sleep aid? Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) ha...
