Under construction - pardon our mess!
It’s official – I have begun my first major foray into wildcrafting. After spending a morning with Earthheart, I came home with an abundance of St. John’s wort, mullein, and red clover from her Mullein mania patch. So – what to do with the haul? Let’s start with mullein AKA “Great Mullein, Aaron’s Rod, candlewick…
A few years ago I planted some German chamomile. I don’t remember how many plants. The seeds were minuscule, the plants started out small, I tucked them here and there around the garden as companion plants. The pollinators loved them, I enjoyed their mild apple scent. Then nature took its course. Those things breed like…
“Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.” I always liked Forrest Gump, but “peas and carrots” brings to mind the awful institutional variety – little cubes of lifeless, washed-out orange and green that taste like tin can. Blech. The homegrown variation (thankfully) doesn’t even taste like the same food. Now, I still don’t…
They say the most of mothers,Are something pretty fine,But no one else’s mother,Can be so dear as mine.She never fails or falters,When things go hard or wrong,No matter what my troubles,She’ll help me right along. This was a poem I recited as a little girl when I took my First Communion on Mother’s Day. I…
One facet of the warmer weather is that my son the Earth Rabbit (Chinese Zodiac sign) has taken to wallowing in the mud for long hours every day. Thankfully we are in the country and there are no close neighbors to complain about the pit he has dug in the yard. He is SO messy,…