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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Sum-sum-summertime!

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This morning's gatherings. With talk of the temperature rising this afternoon, I headed out to gather calendula blossoms and some l...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Essential Herbal - July/August '13

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The latest issue of the magazine is whirling around out there, making its way into mailboxes across the country at a pretty good clip. If y...
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Friday, June 07, 2013

You might be an herbie if...

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Back in spring '11, Marnie Plunkett suggested on our email list that it might be fun to try to answer this question.  It was!  And we t...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Permissions

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The other day a friend of mine was looking for a way to protect her property.  She was finding her photographs on various sites across the w...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Ode to Calendula - Excerpt

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In the May/June '13 issue of The Essential Herbal Magazine , Marci Tsohonis graced our pages with an instructive article on making casti...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Elderflower Champagne

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It isn't often that in the middle of working on getting an issue put to bed for the printer that something in an article makes us stop...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Actually, everyone *doesn't* know that.

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Many times in conversations over the last year or so, people become exasperated to think that people are not reacting to something in a way ...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

the maple in the yard

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Maple trees are common and we almost don't even notice them.  In the early spring, sugar maples are tapped for their sweet sap, but othe...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Violet Leaf Experiment #1

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 Disclaimer - I am so far from a scientist that my high school science teacher probably rolls around uncomfortably in his grave every time I...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Missing my little violet picker

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When my daughter was little, she was always my companion and helper during violet season.  For a week or two each spring, on sunny afternoon...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

The View from this Side of the Fence

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Because of what I do for a living, more than half of my close friends are business owners.  Most likely they have no employees and pour thei...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

The Woodland Cure

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Being inside today means being in some way connected to the news of the manhunt in Boston.  Even several states away, it is surreal and it s...
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