Day 136/365 – On Echinacea – what to look for in products
5/16/17 Today at herb school…(the start of a sentence you don’t hear every day, although you do on my blog)…we learned about echinacea! It’s an herb that’s so commonplace nowadays, yet far from everyone knows how to use it properly. It’s an herb that’s used acutely to mount a sufficient immune response to fight a […]
Day 135/365 – On Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
5/15/17 I just went on a class field trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens as part of the Arbor Vitae curriculum. There’s nothing better than an outdoors class as a way to get to know the herbs empirically. Field trips in general are great no matter what you’re learning or what age you are! There […]
Day 134/365 – On Mother’s Day
5/14/17 Someone said today: mother’s day is a nonsensical holiday, because it should really be celebrated every day. It’s so true – we should be conscious and grateful to our mothers daily! Thanks to them, we exist. Moreover, their love and care continued to nurture us after we left the womb, and for the lucky […]
Day 133/365 – On seasonal allergies
5/13/17 Allergies can span from mild to severe, and can be classified into four types of hypersensitivity reactions. Depending on the type, the treatment for them varies. Allergies can also happen sporadically or periodically, and some are chronic if the allergen is unable to be identified or removed from the individual’s environment. Most allergies involve […]
Day 132/365 – On Becoming a Superhuman
5/12/17 I’m really loving this new medium – podcasts! Free, useful, educational information with top experts in every field – you just have to know where to look. Recently I’ve started following a few more herbal and medical feeds, and am excited to share with you an episode I just heard on bone broths via […]
Day 131/365 – On Fat and the Moon
5/11/17 Just wanted to share an amazing external herbal medicine company, with the quirky name of Fat and the Moon. I discovered their line of all-natural cosmetics at the Cycles and Sex exhibit a couple of weeks back. I have to say I was impressed with the type of ingredients used as well as the […]
Day 130/365 – On rhubarb pie
5/10/17 Recently I’ve been getting rhubarb stalks as part of my CSA with Lancaster Farms. (Btw the stalks have been used as food forever, but the leaves are poisonous!!!) Not knowing much about the plant, I made the rookie mistake of adding it to my salads and soups, which I usually do with veggies. Little […]
Day 129/365 – On Victory Day
(The date by Soviet standards is written as: 9th of May, 1945.) 5/9/17 Today is the anniversary of Victory Day, the day celebrated by the former Soviet Union of the end of WWII, and the defeat of the Nazi forces. Since the victory became official late evening on May 8, 1945, in Europe – it was […]
Day 128/365 – On herbal CSAs, continued
Can you identify these plants? 5/8/17 (Continued from yesterday’s post on Sacred Warrior/Sawmill Farms CSA) The second CSA is through one of my herbalism teachers at Arbor Vitae, Nathaniel Whitmore. He had a wide array of herbs to choose from: Japanese knotweed, barberry root, burdock root, calamus root, dandelion leaves and roots, giant chickweed, violet […]
Day 127/365 – On herbal CSAs
5/7/17 In addition to my food CSA, I now have also signed up to CSAs for medicinal herbs! I signed up for one with Sawmill Herb Farm via Vanessa Chakour’s Sacred Warrior program. There are several drop-off locations in Brooklyn available, including Radicle Herb Shop, Remedies Herb Shop and an integrative professional workspace called Electroposi.tv. We […]
