Earth & Herbal
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Growing, remedies, plant profiles, and what it actually looks like to bring herbal living into everyday life
Nettle: what it is, what it does, and why I’m finally reaching for it
Nettle is actually one of the most mineral-rich plants you can drink. Iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, silica, and zinc, which are the minerals our bodies quietly run on every day. It has been used as food and medicine for thousands of years. Most people know it for the sting. The
Chamomile: what it is, what it does, and how to use it
There is a specific kind of tired that just does not lift with sleep. You go to bed, wake up, and something still feels off. The day starts before you feel ready. The night comes, and the signal to wind down arrives too late, or not at all. Chamomile is
The Delicious Kitchen Herbs I Missed All Winter
There is something about stepping out to the patio mid-cook to cut a handful of fresh kitchen herbs that makes dinner feel a little more magical. The smell hits you before you even get back inside. That is the part I look forward to every spring, and the part that
What a Patio Container Herb Garden Taught Me
The first summer I grew cucumbers in a container along with my container herb garden, I learned something I never would have figured out right away in a bigger garden. The flowers were blooming, fruiting, and then drying up and falling off. The little fruits would start to form and
The 4 herbs I always keep in my kitchen and why
My stomach was doing something it had been doing for weeks, and I finally got tired of waiting for it to stop on its own. That was it. That was how this started for me, officially. I went looking for something that might help, and I kept landing on the
What I Stopped Doing in My Yard (And What Showed Up When I Did)
Turn your backyard into a wildlife habitat I stopped caring about raked leaves many autumns ago. I read one thing about what lives in that leaf litter over winter and I could not unknow it. Ground beetles. Native bees. The eggs of moths I had been planting flowers to attract