Posted: April 4, 2021
Hard Times and Dangerous Days. Here in Ontario we are facing hard times and dangerous days. Despite being over a year into this pandemic it has never been more dangerous. Community transmission is running like wildfire across the province and the vaccine rollout is a muddled mess. Combine those facts with the new variants that
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Posted: March 28, 2021
Rose Medicine I’m watching my garden and enjoying the gradual lengthening of the days. I know it is March but I long for the roses to bloom. If I am honest, I admit that I don’t know the species planted in my garden. Like many of the plants out there I inherited them when we
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Tags: healing, herbalism, Ottawa herbalist, rose medicine, self-care, spirit, Stress
Posted: March 22, 2021
Backwoods Safety With the official arrival of spring and warmer weather I’ve been looking forward to a return to the backwoods. I’m not the only one. Looked at booking a campsite in my favourite Ontario provincial park and all the sites are totally booked until late August. Pandemic time has seen many folks turning to the
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Posted: March 14, 2021
Who matters? I’ve been thinking about this for at least the past 6 months. Who matters? If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that many of us feel we are the ones who matter. I had a meeting with a client back in July. Her take was that Covid-19 was a risk for
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Posted: March 8, 2021
Garlic Mustard – Wild Food. Most of us know that eating plants from the Brassicaceae family is good for us. Eating wild plants increases nutrient diversity in our diets and saves our pocketbook. We don’t always get to enjoy wild plants as much as we might like. When we want to eat the wild in
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