Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today, I’m creating both a tincture and skin astringent that are high in silica. Essential for bone preservation and development, silica protects against osteoporosis and assists in healing broken bones and strained or damaged connective tissue. Silica also increases collagen…
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Winter Oxymels
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. At the end of the growing season, I like to make sure that I have all the tinctures and dried herbs I need for use during the Winter months. I’ve already made my elderberry tincture as well as a new…
Thor’s Hammer – Growth Through Allowing
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Since I like to explore the different astrological aspects that occur in the heavens, I thought I’d take a look at an aspect known as Thor’s Hammer. Like the Yod, the Thor’s Hammer aspect involves an interaction between three planetary…
Oregon Grape
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I have a bunch of Oregon Grape growing around my property which is a great herb to treat my rheumatoid arthritis. Traditionally, the rhizome or root is harvested, but a few years ago, I read an article by another herbalist…
Hive Update – Candy Board Interrupted – October 2019
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I decided to make my candy board from foundationless frames instead of using one that sits on top of the hive. I’ll place them on the outside edges of the top brood box, assuming there’s room. In other words, we…
Hawthorn – Medicinal and Magickal
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Hawthorn trees are magickal! My mother-in-law had a hawthorn tree growing along her driveway that she had pruned into the shape of a Japanese Lace-Leaf maple tree. It was beautiful! So, early on in our marriage, we began pilfering small…
Autumn Equinox Magick
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. This year, the Autumn Equinox occurs at 12:50 AM PDT on Monday, 23 September. Also known as Mabon to pagans and witches, this is a time to celebrate reaping what we sow. Daylight and nighttime hours are equal and magicks…
Wood Betony
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Wood Betony is a lovely perennial plant with a leafy base and beautiful purple flowers that spike upward in reach of the sun. I grow it in my medicinal herb garden because of its nervine properties and its effectiveness on…
Somewhat Daily Tarot and Rune for 4 September 2019
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today’s Cards, Runes, and Numerology Numerology ~ 4 – structure, foundation, elemental balance Cards ~ King of Cups (passive/aggressive, commitment issues), The Empress (3, love, fertility, Mother aspect, womb abundance, receptive energy, beauty), Justice (11, balanced reason, justice, equilibrium, decision,…
The Healing Power of Poultices
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. As many of you know if you’ve been reading this blog, back in 2011 I achieved clinical remission from rheumatoid arthritis using cannabis concentrates. I wrote about it in my first book, Confessions of a Back Porch Herbalist in which…
Valerian
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Years ago, I knew a guy who took a blend of hops and valerian to help his lower back relax. He traveled by car for his job and sitting all day left his lower back feeling tight and in pain….
Borage
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Borage is one of the most prolific herbs growing around my home. I’m never without transplants and I’m forever moving borage around to this or that garden space to attract bees and other pollinators. Borago officinalis‘s lovely blue star-like flower…
Hops
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Although we typically view hops as an ingredient in beer, in reality, it’s a medicinal plant used in herbal medicine. The perennial vines of Humulus lupulus climb on anything they reach so planting them next to a fence provides perfect…
Nettle
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Nettle doesn’t naturally grow on my property, likely because it’s too dry here. So, a few years ago, I decided to order some seeds and grow my own. I have to say that I abhor the idea of purchasing herbs,…
Red Clover
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’m blessed to have a pasture full of red clover. We have an apiary and red clover provides nourishing food for the honeybees and other wild pollinators that buzz about on our five acres. But its also nourishing for our…
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