Just finished this book and I highly recommend it!

Just finished this book and I highly recommend it! The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. Not that you need my recommendation when it has Robin Wall Kimmerer’s on the cover 😀

What a nice day for the Home Apothecary class! Her

What a nice day for the Home Apothecary class! Here we are in photo 1 showing off the harvest from our garden (yarrow, mugwort, anise hyssop, calendula, tulsi, lobelia, boneset); photo 2: making mugwort glycerine; photo 3: bottling the tinctures we made in prior classes.
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#herbalism #herbgarden #apothecary #localherbs

Shout out to my herbal CSA members for the tasty t

Shout out to my herbal CSA members for the tasty treats: pickled chicken of the woods mushroom from @wicked_sassy and tomatoes / shishito peppers from @royaljelllie

Elder in three stages: flowers, developing fruits,

Elder in three stages: flowers, developing fruits, and the year’s first cluster of ripe berries. What a pleasure to have these all at once! I planted two varieties that flower at slightly different times, and this is an unintended but lovely result.
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[image description: clusters of white elder flowers, green unripe berries, and dark purple berries]
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#elderberry #herbgarden #herbalist

The apothecary will be open today from 4-7pm. Stop

The apothecary will be open today from 4-7pm. Stop by for some locally grown herbs! 2437 15th st NW, use the call box to ring me.
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[image description: echinacea purpurea flower with a tiny bee visitor]

Peaches with sugar and spicebush: what a combo! I

Peaches with sugar and spicebush: what a combo! I used powdered ripe spicebush fruits in my peach pie for the first time last weekend and will never go back to the usual spices.
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[image description: peach slice dipped in a mix of sugar and brown spicebush powder] #spicebush #LinderaBenzoin #SugarAndSpice #LocalSpices #NativePlants

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