Wow! The gardens, including all those wonderful healing herbs are keeping us busy, and starting to look good and provide us with great food and medicine.
At our Annual Herbal Intensive, we tinctured Lady’s Mantle, Cleavers; made St. John’s (St. Joan’s) Wort sun infused oil, some very strong tinctracts: Burdock, Vervain; herbal glycerites of Mullein and Heal All (Prunella vulgaris); along with a very healing skin salve which soothes bumps, bruises, chapped skin…. We also stewed and brewed many infusions, decoctions, made poultices to fix our own cuts and bruises, and draw out a sliver…. all while having a lot of fun learning! Identification terms and learning a few latin names kept everyone on their toes.
Our woofer Monica is enjoying combining her nursing background with the natural healing approach – she is loving it and we are loving her.
What a pleasure to be able to provide these herbs from our own land. I am already thinking ahead about some great ideas for next July’s course.
