Posted: March 1, 2021
Make an Herb Salt. Last week when I was talking about bladderwrack, I mentioned that you could use it to make an herb salt. I make different flavours of herb salts and enjoy personalizing something I use every day. Don’t want herbalism to be on a pedestal. Everybody can do this to incorporate herbs into
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Posted: February 22, 2021
Medicine from the sea. I grew up in Nova Scotia. A part of me is always somewhere beyond the land onto the sea. Here in landlocked Ontario, it is easy to forget about medicine from the sea. The ocean is ineffable. Unless you have stood on the shore and watched the waves crash upon the
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Tags: bladderwrack, eat wild, herbalism, learning herbs, ocean medicine, Ottawa, tasty
Posted: February 14, 2021
Making an Herb Infused Oil – Part 2 In part 1 I talked about making an herb infused oil. I know the herb I want to use and decided on a combination of 2 oils (sunflower and jojoba) that have some similar/some complementary properties. Using Heat When working with dried herbs (which when I am
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Tags: DIY, easy, elderflower, herbalism, herbs, jojoba oil, Ottawa herbalist, sunflower oil
Posted: February 7, 2021
Respite in the wild. I have been writing part 2 to last weeks post and I’ll be honest – I’m struggling with it a bit. Do I need to clutter the internet with information that is already out there? My spirit has been needing some solace. Some respite in the wild. Yesterday I went for
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Posted: February 1, 2021
Making an Herb Infused Oil Last week I wrote a post about juniper berries and using them to make an herb infused oil. I didn’t go into detail. This week I will start to cover it in depth. This will be in two parts. In my practice I do use essential oils, however, I prefer
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