Devil’s Club Oplopanax horridum aka Oplopanax horridus Araliaceae family   The following, while weighty in information, is in no way complete in the actions and uses of Devil’s Club. It’s...

I love making quiche from wild greens. When we harvest healthy wild greens from unsprayed areas, the plants are so nourishing to us and our loved ones. It’s another layer...

While you can find as many ways to make herbal medicine as there are blogs on the internet, the following is a short plant medicine making tutorial based on my...

              Mite infestations in chickens, turkeys, and game birds can run from a nuisance to a health hazard to death, depending on the severity...

Hawthorn ~ Crataegus spp. is the “hope and faith that everything will be ok” plant. A tall shrub in the rose family, hawthorn grows in open meadows, on roadsides, along streams...

  A thread that continues throughout my community workshops and programs is how to “get the medicine to the people in ways that they will enjoy taking so that healing...

The nervous system is responsible for our moods and thoughts. Emotional health, therefore, is a function of nerve health.   When we’re talking stress relief, personalized is the way to...

In the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been enjoying a relatively warm and very wet winter. Nettles are up, wild mustard is flourishing, I’m hearing bird song that I haven’t heard in...

Willow – 90 species of Salix here in the Pacific Northwest and all work the same as far as their medicinal content goes. The bark of the willow canes is...

Elderberries are powerful medicine to have on hand yet there is much controversy surrounding the elder. To heat or not to heat? Are elderberries poisonous? These are the questions for...