Tag: Herb

  • 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.

  • herbs for cats

    Cats have been a part of my daily life for 14 years now.?á During most of this time I have thought of them as little carnivores, little super predators.?á?á While it is true that they rely on meat for their sustenance, they love plants too.?á They love green stuff like fresh green blades of oats…

  • the beauty is in the practice

    I just read a very silly article in the Globe and Mail called The promise and perils of backyard herbalism by Adriana Barton. ?áIn this, she tries to pit herbalists against ‘real’ science and research. ?áI love how this article reveals how bound-up we are in our respective beliefs. ?áSome people are thoroughly disgusted with…

  • Herbal Creativity… Valentine’s Version

    The first Herbal Creativity Spa Weekend workshop was held this last weekend. It was a thoroughly delicious, educational,?ácreative?áand fun experience. Participants learned to make?ásucculent herbal truffles, beautiful felted soaps, and pretty Boudoir Boxes. They enjoyed some herbal teas, made a bath tea, and tasted a?áHealthy Hot Chocolate. They made (and some dared to sample…) a?átrue…

  • Herbal Creativity Spa Weekend: Valentine

    The pinnacle of the dark, dreary days of winter is a purgatory that rests between Christmastime and SpringÔǪ February. Installed into February is a day that is supposed to be a celebration of ÔÇ£LoveÔÇØ. Many lament the commercialisation of ValentineÔÇÿs Day, and resent the high expectations and sadness that come with so many of our…

  • a bitter DIY gift idea

    I made this bottle of bitters so that folks in my family would have a “just in case” digestive boost to carve through the season of excess otherwise known as Christmas. ?áThe small bottle of bitters in the middle of the above photo illustrates the type of approach I like to take for labeling things…

  • got the chills?

    An olde fashioned favourite tea that is used for sudden chills, chills from a feverish state or fevers is equal amounts of mint, elder flower and yarrow. If you happen to have a copy of Matthew Wood’s Earthwise Herbal, you will read that “mint tea was used during the terrific grippe epidemics of 1838 and…

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