It’s Goldenrod time where I live. Maybe where you live too.
Goldenrod has the reputation of being an allergen.
While anything can be an allergen to anybody, this is not the plant behind fall allergies. Ragweed is the far more likely culprit.
In fact, goldenrod is not only NOT a “problem,” this abundant, easy-to-find plant is has a long standing reputation as a formidable healing herb.
McMaster University is located in Hamilton, Ontario, an industrialized city on the shores of Lake Ontario, south of Toronto.
This is a description of the program there that Elder Bertha Skye is part of.
The Indigenous Students Health Sciences (ISHS) office is solely dedicated to providing services and supports for the academic success and wellbeing of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at … Read more
A healing “weed” that grows free is just coming into its own in the northeast.
You can learn more about Diana’s course here.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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The Threefold nature of plants and reading the Book of Nature
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Thomas Cowan.
We found this video here:
https://www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Our favorite restaurants, cafes, stores and places for music, worship, education and entertainment may be closed, but nature remains “in business”.
And what a beautiful business it is.
In our neck of the woods, the choruses of wood frogs are starting to emerge and of course bird songs are on the increase .
LearnYourLand.com is a channel we discovered last year and we love it.
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An interview with Phyllis D. Light, author of Southern Folk Medicine, the first comprehensive treatment of one of America’s most valuable, but little known natural healing treasures.
You can order the book here: Southern Folk Medicine
You can get more information here about Phyllis Light’s work and The Appalachian Center for Natural Health
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Another great video from the wonderful Learn Your Land website and Adam Haritan.
Don’t be scared of the technical terms. Every word you know now was once new to you too.
If you catch 20% the first time through you’re doing great. Adam packed a lot into this and it merits a re-watch or two.
Visit Learn Your Land website so you can subscribe directly.
– Ken McCarthy
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Click here to watch how to forage and prepare burdock root chai
After you watch Diana’s lesson, you might be interested in the Plant Wisdom interview with her. You can click here to listen to the interview.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Dr. John Munsell of Mountain Rose Herbs
Three benefits to this:
1. It’s a way to “add value” to forest land to keep it from being clear cut
2. It builds local communities in depressed areas
3. Higher quality
Historical note:
Forest farming is probably how the Mayans, Amazonians and other Native people grew medicinal herbs.
How do we know?
We constantly find medicinal plants in denser concentrations than … Read more
