Category: Herbs
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Last of the harvest
Not bad for throwing some potatoes on the ground, covering with straw and forgetting about them until now😂 & in with the potato weed pit was beautiful dandelion greens & roots ❤️ I cut back the yarrow for the yr, & thanked her for amazing fern like beauty. I love rubbing my fingers thru her…
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Bittersweet
Bittersweet Garden is pretty much spent ☺️ she’s been very good to me this yr & I’ve missed her dearly the past couple weeks. I’ve spent so much time harvesting other places & I just let her grow Wyld anyway she wanted! It’s her last hoorays of this a fruitful summer. I went out today…
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Kansas Girl ~Sunflower
Today was all about paying homage to my roots ☺️Ks. Born & raised , I couldn’t let this amazing summer of wildcrafting end without working with sunflower 🌻 , I grew some amazing ones this yr & I didn’t harvest them I let them go from seed to done & then left mother nature so…
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The search for Goldenrod begins..
Wanted : GoldenrodHas anyone seen this plant? 🤣 I think I jumped the gun just a bit 🤣 this cool weather had me all ready for fall & summer isn’t exactly over so…I went out yesterday looking for “GoldenRod” & found so much more i love when that happens, & I’m also paying the price…
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Pokeweed Berry Ink
Pokeweed Berry ink 🪶🔏American NightshadeFirst things first don’t play with pokeweed berries unless you know what your doing ☺️ they are filled with ✨ Magick 💫Pokeweed has the power to feed , heal & Harm.⚠️🚨The berries are poisonous raw & should never ever be picked & eaten 🚨⚠️Some people but not all have a skin…
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Wild “Prickly” Lettuce
Isn’t she beautiful ☺️Wild “prickly” lettuce , I marked the pics so you could see before & after shaking.I also took it outside into the sunlight so you could see the beautiful layers I keep it in a dark otherwise.This is the 1st tincture in the process, this will sit for weeks before I start…
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Bee Balm/ Wild Bergamot
Today’s foraging gifted me with beautiful Bee Balm. Bee Balm is from the mint family & has a square stem, & a very distinct scent. All parts of the plant edible but there are few precautions. So always do your own research. Native Americans dried & ground to a fine powder them rubbed it on…
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Foraging Full Force
Tomorrow’s foragingI spied with my lil eye beautiful Bee Balm ( Wild Bergamot) yesterday, & today, I’ve also been watching several huge mullein plants flower, I’m getting more mullein to dry now that I’ve got the first of it out of the way &: waiting to be processed & finished up,The flowers I’ll add with…
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Lamb’s Quarter
Lamb’s QuartersPower Packed Plant( Weed **cough cough) 😆 They are high in fiber, protein and is loaded with both Vitamins A and C. Lamb’s quarters is also high in manganese, calcium, copper and has a bit of iron, and is high in both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Like spinach and other greens, both orach…
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Moxibustion Mugwort
Moxa- MoxibustionThe art of moving illness & disease, moving prana,chi,energy through the meridians by using the smoke of “Mugwort” ( some use other herbs but Moxibustion is traditionally Mugwort) First things first Moxa-Moxibustion is more than smudging! Traditional Chinese medicineNative American shamanssome Reiki, & some acupuncturists use Moxa .Sometimes the Mugwort is Smoked by the…