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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Reader's Choice Award Finalist - About.com

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As most of you know, The Essential Herbal Magazine is a print magazine (one of the few remaining on the subject of herbs) that is mailed ou...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Groundhogs Lie

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Strangely enough, right around when the groundhog predicted the end of winter, along came winter.  As is seeming to be becoming the norm, No...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

March/April '13 issue, The Essential Herbal Magazine

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It's always exciting to announce a new issue and share the table of contents, but especially as we pass the darkest days of winter and s...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Spring in a Cup

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I've talked about how in my very early days of learning to work with herbs, I started a gallon jar containing pinches and handfuls of al...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Loose Incense

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It has been a while since I've played around with the resins, woods, and herbs to come up with new blends to burn.  The weather has b...
Monday, January 07, 2013

why I like resolutions

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Lots of people don't like making resolutions.  To them, it seems silly to choose one day to make changes.  I feel differently about it. ...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Such Sweet Notes (feedback)

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This was the week that we sent renewal notices for The Essential Herbal .  It's not a particularly pleasant job for me... "hey, um....
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Sample Issue - FREE - Jan/Feb '12

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As our gift for the new year, we've put up last year's Jan/Feb issue as a pdf that you may download to read.  You are also welcome t...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Choose your crayon

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I'm sitting here fairly tingling.  It will sound strange to some, but with the advent of the new year, I also got the huge gift of clear...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

losing our words

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In the last year or so, there have been essays written mourning the loss of penmanship due to everything being typed into computers.  We...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The beginning and the end...

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Sometimes, much to the chagrin of the next generation here on the hill, I'm unable to restrain myself from getting mushy.  We had a grad...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

And so begins the 12th year - Jan/Feb '13

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The Jan/Feb '13 issue of The Essential Herbal is in the mail, and pdf subscribers will receive the file on the 20th of this month.  We ...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Bay Leaf Garlands

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the ingredients are so pretty... The topic of bay leaf garlands came up yesterday, and since it's been a while since making one, it...
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Monday, December 03, 2012

Have a Handmade Holiday

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 Below you'll find links to many herbal crafting items,  This is a good representation of the kinds of things you'll find in The Ess...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Ornaments - our cold and humble beginning

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Yesterday we were making a delivery to a rustic little shop, and passing by a basket of stuffed fabric ornaments, I reached down, picked one...
Friday, November 16, 2012

It started with a stroll through the farmers market

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This morning, we went to market looking for nothing in particular.  We were actually there to stop across the street to pick up some herbal ...
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Monday, November 05, 2012

Going outside again, after the storm

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It has been a long, gray spell here in the North East.  Hard to complain about gray when so many are cold, hungry and homeless after this st...