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Marshmallow Root for Hair and Skin: Slip, Softn...
Marshmallow root's mucilage gives natural slip for detangling hair and a soothing touch for irritated skin. How to make the rinses, compresses, and masks that use it well.
Marshmallow Root for Hair and Skin: Slip, Softn...
Marshmallow root's mucilage gives natural slip for detangling hair and a soothing touch for irritated skin. How to make the rinses, compresses, and masks that use it well.
Fresh Marshmallow Root: Uses, How to Order & Wh...
Fresh marshmallow root is a different material from dried: cut it and the mucilage draws immediately. What to do with it, how our September harvest works, and how to order.
Fresh Marshmallow Root: Uses, How to Order & Wh...
Fresh marshmallow root is a different material from dried: cut it and the mucilage draws immediately. What to do with it, how our September harvest works, and how to order.
How to Grow Tulsi: A Complete Guide to Holy Bas...
How we grow tulsi on a short-season Quebec farm: surface-sowing seed that needs light to germinate, transplanting onto warm ground, pinching, and harvesting holy basil at flower.
How to Grow Tulsi: A Complete Guide to Holy Bas...
How we grow tulsi on a short-season Quebec farm: surface-sowing seed that needs light to germinate, transplanting onto warm ground, pinching, and harvesting holy basil at flower.
Medicinal Weeds: The Wild Pharmacy Growing at t...
A walk around our Quebec herb farm reveals medicine everywhere we didn't plant it: dandelion, goldenrod, mullein, yarrow, pineapple weed, and a ghost-white plant that gave up sunlight altogether.
Medicinal Weeds: The Wild Pharmacy Growing at t...
A walk around our Quebec herb farm reveals medicine everywhere we didn't plant it: dandelion, goldenrod, mullein, yarrow, pineapple weed, and a ghost-white plant that gave up sunlight altogether.
How to Make a Skullcap Tincture (Fresh or Dried)
A skullcap tincture keeps for years and travels better than tea. Ratios, alcohol strength, and the fresh-versus-dried question, using garbled skullcap from our Québec farm.
How to Make a Skullcap Tincture (Fresh or Dried)
A skullcap tincture keeps for years and travels better than tea. Ratios, alcohol strength, and the fresh-versus-dried question, using garbled skullcap from our Québec farm.
How to Grow Skullcap From Seed
Skullcap needs cold stratification and light to germinate, and almost nothing after that. How we start it, space it, harvest it at eighteen inches, and dry it on our Québec...
How to Grow Skullcap From Seed
Skullcap needs cold stratification and light to germinate, and almost nothing after that. How we start it, space it, harvest it at eighteen inches, and dry it on our Québec...