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Category: Gardening
A Garden Highlight: Introducing the Lovely Nervine Lavender!
Lavender is a versatile herb supporting the nervous system, aiding sleep, digestion, and skin. Its essential oil can alleviate stings, burns, headaches, and sore muscles. It is used in various products and can be consumed in tea and cookies. A skin recipe includes lavender oil.
LAB Series: Lemon balm
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU4q-znw-zw] Join me at Fleurbain for the LAB Series. On August 30th and 31st we are all about Lemon balm, otherwise known as Melissa officinalis. What you might like to know about this herb ahead of time: Lemon balm: * is a great tasting herb, so lemony, but it is actually a part of the…
inspiration for using weeds in food
inspiration for using weeds in foodHerbalists like myself love to tell everyone about the wonderfully nutritious benefits to be discovered in weeds. ?á
taking care of things
We have a couple of new mascots in Fleurbain, and both would like to wish you a merry Christmas. Lady B came onto the scene at the same time as Rosemary, who had spent the summer in our friendly neighbourhood community garden. They are both over-wintering in Fleurbain, taking full advantage of our large bright…
site under construction
Fleurbain is under construction. Fleurbain is moving… moving in, setting up shop, shifting around, clarifying, distilling, and experimenting to compound our knowledge and expertise. Fleurbain is no longer only a dream and a website… Fleurbain is a site. We will have a grand ouverture and vernissage soon (probably in early November), but in the meantime…
i love my tiny community garden plot!
… and the apartment sized harvests. Within one hour I picked basil, parsley, tomatoes, stevia, chamomile and lavender.?áI then planted some greens for the fall – a little late, we will see. After that I made a pesto and documented it. Okay, on with the rest of the day! Tammy Schmidt, Montreal.
stayin’ cool with CSA veggies
Our reader Laurie Aaron Dahlquist recently uploaded?ásome beautiful images to our Facebook Page, along the theme of Stayin’ Cool in August. Laurie (like many of us) is a member of a CSA Farm. We wrote one of our first articles on Fleurbain about our own little CSA farm;?áthey hold a dear place in our hearts!…
not always easy being green
Cruising through the New York Times this morning, I came across a story?áabout some of the trials and tribulations presented by wild landscape gardening. Margie Ruddick?áis a landscape architect living in Philadelphia. She has?ánurtured a wild?á(and very beautiful) garden that doesn’t require?áwatering, saves runoff?áwater from going into the sewers and feeds the birds and neighbours.…
friday night refreshment, my way
Is mint taking over your garden? ?áHere is one way to use it up. * Take a good fist full of mint from the garden * Coarsely chop it with scissors and put the mint into a shaker or jar * Add a little gin to the shaker. Add 3 ice cubes and juice of…
