In the autumn, I start to cook more, eat less raw foods, and generally build the body up for the cold months.  Soups are popular in our family in the fall. Here are a few recipes we love....

Tina Sams of the Essential herbal shares her favorite herb with us. Make elderberry tincture, elderberry bread, elderberry dumplings, elderberry chutney, and luscious elderberry syrup....

Every year at this time, I find myself running in several directions, attempting to capture all of the plants that may be needed in the coming year – at just the right time, preserving them in the most perfect manner, and trying all the while to expand the variety, learn a new plant this year, eat a new wild plant or a new recipe...

My daughter experienced a very anxious time when she entered second grade in our local public school. She would come home - after what perhaps seemed like an endless day - and say that nobody liked her, that she was dumb, and didn't want to go back...

I’ve mentioned comfrey (Symphytum officinale) time and time again so I think it’s time for a few words about this favorite, second only to Rosemary in my heart. No garden, herb or otherwise, should be without comfrey. It’s amazing!

I can so clearly remember picking bouquets of Dandelions to present to my ever appreciative mother and now I have my own little girl gleefully bringing me countless bright bunches that are closing and drooping even as they are being offered.

Chickweed seems to be one of the first plants that new foragers go hunting for.  In the region where I live, it is more common that grass, growing throughout the lawn, snuggling up to the house, and peeping out from beneath fallen leaves and pine boughs...

This Month, The Essential herbal share an entire issue of their wonderful magazine. Featuring "Medicine and Beauty from the Sea" by Gail Faith Edwards, Tasty Tea Herbs, all about Elder, Lavender cookies, a Crossword puzzle, and much more....