Wisdom

Turn your Lawn into a Food Forest

For the many of us who are not avid yogis, baseball players or picnickers, lawns offer diminishing returns. Getting up on saturdays to push the mower back and forth in a sweat…

Treat Common Ailments at Home with Herbs

Treat Common Ailments with Homemade Herbal Remedies

Treating common ailments with homemade herbal remedies can be both empowering and cost-effective. Herbalist author Stephen Harrod Buhner has been medically treating himself with herbal remedies for 30 years, and finds the…

Herbal Allies for Leaky Gut Syndrome

With digestion at the foundation of health, it’s no surprise that ailments from anxiety to allergies are rooted in the gut. And as modern eating habits continue to deteriorate, so-called “leaky gut…

Celebrate Your Freedom: Three Easy Ways to Advocate for Plants and Plant Medicines

This July 4th as we are celebrating the birth of our free nation here in the US, we should also consider the ways we can advocate for the freedom of plants and…

The Many Gifts of The Much Maligned Dandelion

Every spring I teach a class on healing plants at the local herb nursery here in Connecticut. We have a grand time touching, tasting, smelling and celebrating the hundreds of beautiful medicinal…

The Benefits of Osha Root & How To Prepare Your Own Recipe

Osha root is also known as loveage, loveroot or bear medicine because bears, after chewing it for health reasons, are side-affected by its “lovage” properties and take to nuzzling each other. This perennial herb — Ligusticum porteri, known as osha or osha — is found in parts…

5 Ways to Catch the Spirit of a Plant

Plant spirits are tricky. Like catching fireflies, their magic quickly fades once you try to place them in a bottle, jar, or pocket (we all make mistakes). So, how do we catch…

A Featherweight’s Guide to Coffee

There are coffee-lovers and then there are coffee-lovers. The first kind can down the stuff with impunity—like my old roommate Dave, whom I once watched drink a pot of stovetop espresso and…

Who’s Your Goddess Helper Plant?  Three Sacred Herbs for Health, Love, and Wealth

Ancient myths from around the world are ripe with stories of famous goddesses using herbs for magic, love, and for healing. Here are three sacred herbs you can use to connect to…

Importing Healing Herbs from the Jungle

Adriana Ayales is a rainforest herbalist from Costa Rica. She founded Anima Mundi Herbals as a way to bring justice to the rainforest lands, as well as reviving the hidden wisdom of…

7 DIY Herbal Remedies

Sickness can strike at any time — here are seven easy-to-prepare herbal remedies to have on hand for when you need it. via Numen Film: The very best way to learn about…

DIY Hydrosols: How To Make Flower Water at Home

Herbal hydrosols, aka flower water, are plant-infused essential oils that refresh the body and spirit — and there’s no need to run to the store to get them. Herbalist and educator Dana…

Water and its Role in Consciousness, Healing and Evolution

John Lennon’s song “Imagine” produces this structure in a water molecule. Dr. Masaru Emoto, the renowned Japanese philosopher and scientist, spent a lifetime studying the molecular structure of water from sources around…

Moringa: The Miracle Tree

Meet the Maker: Madison + Green

Lavender: The Herbal Chill Pill

Relinquishing Pop Equanimity aka Chosen Ignorance

Bondages of Fear: Denying a Full Experience of Life

Wandering Home: How to Use Retreat to Come Back to Center

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