Black Cohosh flourishing in my forest garden This morning my 4 year old woke me up at 6am with a plate of runny eggs that my husband helped her make, followed up by a coloring project and a plastic charm bracelet the two of them worked together on yesterday. It was absolutely perfect. Once I woke up enough to get my wits about me, had coffee and my morning granola (sorry runny eggs, no offense lol), I went out and performed my absolute favorite of Mother's Day rituals: I went

I have debated for a while now on whether to write this post. I don’t want to sound insensitive, or like I am living in denial or as if I...

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Despite my ramblings on plant medicine and my years of training as an herbalist, I consider myself a medical provider first. I spend most...

Last year was a terrible garden year for me. We had just moved into our new home in the oldest part of Radisson, an HOA in Baldwinsville,...

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Welcome back to our year’s end series on mental health. Today I again welcome back Suzanne Campbell, who has contributed significantly to...

Stress and anxiety are not the same thing. Unlike stress, anxiety does not require an external trigger. Rather, it is the relationship of...

As COVID wears on, as election season turns into an election saga, the seasons change and the holidays go from one to the other (and each...

This cold and flu season will be an interesting one. Not only are our immune systems dealing with the usual fall (and winter) favorites...

This particular post is a bit more personal for me than usual. Those who read my last entry heard me discuss the importance of building...

As much as I don’t love the heat (us Pitta personalities do better in the cold) I do love Summer. Everything around us is overflowing...

Despite the fact that it’s the coldest May I can remember in quite some time, I’m getting pretty excited about all the lovely plants I...

This is not a post on plants, or medicine, or nutrition. I want to take some time to talk about something bigger than all of that,...

Hi friends. Let’s be honest, we are all scared. There’s a virus running around our world that has overwhelmed our resources, people are...

This past week, my fellow followers of the witchy ways and I prepared to celebrate Imbolc. For those of you not familiar, Imbolc is the...

In my Upstate New York home, the snow is on the ground. It has been for a while now, and it will stay off and on until around May. That’s...

I live in two very different worlds. Ten years ago, I started my training as an herbalist and started working in nutrition and food...