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My journey with lavender
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I find some plants cooler than others. Take the Artemisias for instance: mugwort and wormwood. They’ve...
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Jun 26, 20222 min read
How herbalism treats arthritis
The main distinction between osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is that OA relates to wear and tear of the cartilage...
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May 27, 20221 min read
Four-flower calming tea blend
Combining four of my favourite flowers, this is a blend that will soothe and calm any time of the day. (Increasing the proportion of...
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Mar 19, 20223 min read
Pine tree medicine for the pineal gland, lungs and more
Although it's a tree, pinus sylvestris is also a herb. Pine needles can be made into teas and tinctures, and pine sap or resin can be...
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Jan 16, 20221 min read
a difficult truth
By now you will have learned that baby carrots are a fiction. Unlike other “true” baby vegetables— baby spinach, for example, baby lima...
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Jan 1, 20223 min read
Bitter magic: the subversive potential of a forgotten taste
Behold the bitter gourd. This is a vegetable I first encountered in India, one of the many that was new and unfamiliar to my...
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Dec 21, 20214 min read
Net-of-needles: stinging nettles for repair and healing
Is there a more generous, available and yet prickly plant than urtica dioica? Her nature seems to be one of essential paradox. She is a...
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Nov 21, 20212 min read
3 herbal helpers for home first aid
Herbal first aid may sound like a contradiction in terms. But herbs are not always slow and gradual-acting, and numerous forms of plant...
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Oct 24, 20212 min read
Sambucus nigra: a potent remedy for colds + much more
If you want to avoid the sniffles this winter or cut short a cold you may already have, look no further than Sambucus nigra, aka elder....
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Sep 12, 20211 min read
Meet the bee's knees of teas
Lemon verbena is uplifting and calming at the same time. My love affair with lemon verbena began quite recently, when I discovered a...
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Jul 18, 20211 min read
Cashew breakfast scramble (vegan)
Do you make your own nut milk? This is a great way to use the leftover pulp. Ingredients about 200-250 g of cashew pulp, or soaked and...
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Jun 30, 20212 min read
Tilia: a cure-all tea from the grandmother tree
Linden blossoms and flowers have a long history in folk medicine around the world. Linden or lime blossom tea is a traditional remedy for...
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May 29, 20211 min read
Fennel-pea sabzi
Fennel belongs to the Umbellifers, also known as the carrot family. It goes well with vegetables that are commonly paired with carrots,...
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May 25, 20212 min read
Neem: India's miracle tree
I am not sure I had heard of neem before I spent time in India, but I certainly heard a lot about it while I was living there. Neem was...
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May 2, 20212 min read
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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Apr 17, 20214 min read
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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Apr 10, 20211 min read
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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Mar 28, 20212 min read
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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Mar 14, 20213 min read
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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Mar 7, 20211 min read
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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