Meet the team at The Well Spring Natural Living Center
We did a long interview with a fascinating person we met recently.
Her shorthand name is “Dr. Z”
More than any other person I’ve talked to in a long time, she reminds me of Rosita Arvigo and Baba Rahsan Abdul Hakim who also appear on the plantwisdom.org website.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
Our favorite local herbalist Dina Falconi shows us how to make an infusion of oatstraw and milky oat.
A great plant for the nervous system, nails and skin.
Simple and potent.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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It’s been a solid year of unrelenting military assault on a civilian population.
Food supplies have been blocked, the majority of the food production infrastructure including farm fields and greenhouses have been destroyed, water for irrigation has been cut off.
How are the people of Gaza feeding themselves?
With dignity and resourcefulness few … Read more
Wouldn’t it be great if tree leaves were edible?
After all, there is no shortage of them and talk about organic permaculture.
A British gardener has an interesting story to tell.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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The complete talk by Rosita Arvigo
https://plantwisdom.org/ancient-wisdom-modern-practices/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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I love “weeds” myself and eat a lot of them.
How can you hate plants that grow themselves and are highly nutritious?
But what about farmers? Aren’t weeds a pain for them?
Only if they don’t know what they’re doing. Here’s one that does.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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I like it when kitchen ingredients also happen to be superb plant medicines.
I also like it when someone takes a single herb and drills down deep into it.
There’s a reason this plant instantly took the world by storm when it was “discovered” in Latin America.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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I like this guy’s thorough common sense approach.
Contrary to public belief plants are very powerful medicines.
Some work gently and are probably universally safe, but some also have significant effects that may not be helpful and might even hurt some.
A great example of this is the Mimosa tree.
Popular to talk about because it’s easy to find and deals with common ailments (depression and stress), but it causes … Read more
