Because we may change what we do… I am not a terribly hard worker in many ways. My ‘herbal business’ is not my main focus in life, and I don’t plan my week around selling more tinctures and getting new patients. Not that that is a bad thing in itself, because we all must pay […]
Category Archives: Gardening
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Mar
Mar
When gardening is scary. At 7.30 this morning I put on my wellies and decided to get an hour of gardening in before the real day’s work started. This was a simple wish to tidy up, sweep leaves, do some weeding around my Autumn raspberries, and spread some mulch. I found it a trifle traumatising. […]
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Feb
Feb
Soon be that time again… If you have dabbled in herbal medicine you may recognise this picture for what it is. Not a bowl filled with blood from a cut hand, but of elderberry juice wrung manually from a cheesecloth filled with the ripe berries. For it is nearly that time of year, my friend. […]
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Feb
Feb
…or is it just MY room? For many years we bought organic vegetables delivered to our door by Riverford. We not only liked the fact that these vegetables were free from pesticides and other chemicals, but also that the farm that supplied them was fairly local. Then the price of everything went up, and reluctantly […]
Herbs are plants. Just Grow ’em, and Use ’em… I have just spent several days in Germany staying with a middle-aged couple who live in a small village surrounded by sheep and bounded by a river. Their kids used to swim in the river when they still lived at home, and there is a considerately […]
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Nov
Nov
Teaching a skill, or giving a hand-out? Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime I have had an experience of this proverb recently. It’s not directly linked to what I do, but sometimes I get a chance […]
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Aug
Aug
How do I get rid of caterpillars that are eating through my Valerian, Viburnum, and Nasturtiums? I was overwhelmed with a caterpillar invasion that swept through my medicinal herbs like a dose of castor oil in a constipated patient. These horrible little grey things were chomping through specific green leaves which showed they had good […]
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