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Inca is a wicked little cat.She often joins me in the garden, and likes to chase my gloved hands as I pull weeds and pretend that she is hunting gazelles...

Although the CDC twitter feed is currently heavy on vaccination news and education, with a sprinkling of news about ebola, the other theme that becomes immediately noticeable when you scroll...

I've been looking for some herbal insect repellent recipes to play around with, and Jan Berry, founder of The Nerdy Farm Wife blog, developed an herbal bug spray that I...

Our first day back at Wrens Nest went beautifully! My boyfriend  has been wanting to see the garden so he came along and gave me a hand. You can read...

My apologies for being AWOL the last few weeks on the blog! I accepted a new role with The Herbal Academy, and had some general upheaval (all of it wonderful!)...

No, that isn't a typo. Sometimes you need an extract and you need it now!Well, we have yet to develop Insta-Extract Technology, but you can learn how to have one...

​It's easy to take trees for granted. They are part of the landscape, melding into the background. Unless you have a particular interest in trees, you won't notice them until...

​It's hard to believe that the original edition of The Independent Herbalist: A Beginner's Guide to Herbal Preparedness, my first eBook, came out in 2012, but it did! This handbook...

​One of the most daunting tasks for the would-be herbalist is deciphering how to pronounce the new vocabulary. It can be pretty confusing: herbalism borrows words from the scientific lexicon,...

Making a zine has been on my project list for years now. When I set up my Patreon page last fall I finally promised myself I would do it, because...