Medicinal & Therapeutic Herbs

My mother bought one pot of calendula from a garden centre about twenty years ago on a whim. She never bought another. They’ve been self-seeding in the same beds every spring since, requiring nothing from her except harvesting. Each summer she dries the petals and infuses them in olive oil. That oil goes on her … Read more

A friend of mine dealt for years with the kind of anxiety that doesn’t qualify as a diagnosis but shows up anyway — 3am wake-ups, a brain that won’t stop cataloguing, a baseline tension that’s hard to explain to anyone who doesn’t have it. A naturopath eventually suggested she try skullcap herb as part of … Read more