I am making a concentrated effort to learn more about the actual plants from which we derive our food and medicine, As a little girl, I spend many a summer day out in the sunshine with a berry bucket, foraging from the hill behind our home. I was intrigued by sumac as we drove by a huge grove of it near my grandparents home. My mom treat common ailments at home with herbal teas and salves. But it wasn't until I had my own children that I truly began to seek out the healing powers of plants and they various products.
This year, I am returning to those days of berry picking, by learning more about foraging and gardening through courses at Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. I am already adept at turning harvested and dried botanicals into medicine, and even using fresh aromatic plants to distill hydrosol and essential oil, but now, I am venturing back to the plants and soil. To that end, I am also expanding my library beyond the materia medica to growing and gathering.
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