Lucky me! As a member of United Plant Savers , I had the unique opportunity to purchase three rootlets of Goldenseal (Hydrastis...

I'm especially pleased to select Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) to be this month's plant medicine card! As part the process of...

This amazing book has recently come to my attention, and it's well worth giving it kudos for highlighting a timely issue. I've mentioned...

The BLUE LOTUS card, our plant medicine focus for August, may just be the most visually impressive one of the deck, and it certainly...

"It smells like licorice out here," my daughter said as we walked outside into my backyard garden. This was toward the end of the summer...

As a plant medicine teacher, I like to introduce my herb students to unique or unpopular herbs by assigning them as research project...

To celebrate the Summer Solstice as spring transitions into full blown summer, I want to give a brief shout out to gardeners,...

If you are among those who are drawn to herbal remedies, chances are that you’ve enjoyed a cup of Chamomile tea to wind down after a...

I remember someone once telling me that to have a friend you need to be a friend. When it comes to making and keeping plant allies, the...

If you happen to live in India, you are likely to keep a potted version of this herb on a sunny windowsill somewhere in your home. That's...

WOW...I just added a really cool oracle deck to my growing collection, and I want to share this one with you! Just by looking at the...

You never know where your next eye opening insight will come from! My most recent one appeared purely by chance on the inside of a...

I recently spent a week in the awesome red rocks of Sedona, Arizona for an in-person retreat that marked the final step of a year long...

Nature has so much to offer on levels that may not be immediately obvious. When people hear the term “botanical medicine,” they...

Flower Essences Who doesn't like flowers? As philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "the earth laughs in flowers," and indeed, they...

Herbal Remedies Essential Oils I sometimes like to imagine myself as the medicine woman who lives deep in the middle of a lush, green...

Plants have unique and surprising ways of letting us know who they are and why they are with us.  A recent case in point occurred just...

About 5 years ago I bought a twelve-inch Rosemary bush at a local farmer’s market and planted it in one of the two garden boxes just...

I’ve always been a big fan of autumn, both for the weather around that time of year and for the holiday fun of it. Pumpkins in different...

As I’ve written in several places on this site, plant healing in of one form or another has been a part of my life since I was very young....