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Endurance, immunity and clarity: 3 reasons to love eleutherococcus
Do you know eleuthero? While its common names include "Siberian ginseng" and "taiga root", eleutherococcus senticosus does not come from...
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Anna
- Apr 17, 2021
- 4 min
What I didn't know about community gardens in Prague
The community garden at Kotlaska, with member allotments in the foreground. Before I moved to Prague, my work colleagues told me...
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Anna
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min
Herbed tabbouleh with red currants and wild spring greens
Last spring, at a garden where I was helping out, there was such an abundance of red currants that I began to tire of eating them in my...
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Anna
- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
Raspberry leaf: a tonic for creativity?
According to Greek myth, raspberries were once white. Then came the day that Ida, nursemaid to the infant Zeus, pricked her finger on a...
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Anna
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
The body's community is key to immunity
What if the military model of "fighting" disease, "killing germs" and "defending" ourselves against the "bad guys" ramped up our body's...
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Anna
- Mar 7, 2021
- 1 min
A message from beet street
What makes beet-red different from berry-red? Turns out that beets get their colour from plant nutrients called betalains, pigments that...
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Anna
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Get to know the herbal side of oats
Oats are a remarkably versatile food: they are nourishing for children, adults and the elderly, the healthy, the ill and the...
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Anna
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
What is sacred space, and why is it healing?
The theory of healing that I gravitate to starts from the idea that the place we long for is the place we start from, in wholeness. This...
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Anna
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Is the Earth the Garden of Eden?
The story of the Garden of Eden can be read in two fundamentally different ways. One, the standard version, links agriculture to a...
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Anna
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Inula helenium: how this panacea of the ancient world could help with COVID
Known as elecampane in English, and simply called "inula" by herbalists, the root of inula helenium has been used to treat persistent...
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