Dear incredible herb women,

I am so happy to see that this blog still exists!  How are all of you???!

I'm still living about 5 minutes from Herb Pharm, as the crow flies, at Seven Seeds Farm <3  The year has been an epic journey of love and loss, of growth and of push and pull and stretch and cry and laugh and play and jump in pond over and over and over again : )

Last weekend we held a permaculture gathering on the property and it was a great success!  Nourishing music, company and incredible food.  I even attempted to host an herb workshop on tincture making--quite rusty I might add!  We harvested Aronia berries and False Solomons Seal berries and they are now resting quietly in a dark cabinet swimming in vodka.  I am on another mission to harvest FSS root for cough syrup, but am still in question of whether or not FSS berries only serve as a laxative?  Does anyone happen to have any knowledge of this?

This weekend, I am strapping down and preparing for a Vision Quest in the upcoming week--4 days and nights without food/water connecting with the Great Spirits.  Send a prayer my way if I happen to cross your mind <3

I am post-poning any spring-time plans until post-journey but Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine is glinting on my horizon...I'm stretching in that direction as so many other things let go and un-wind.

I love you all deeply and send you love and light and blessings from our herb home,
Emily

the kitchen sink

the end of summer is drying in the window.

this weekend i tinctured lemon balm and peppermint from the garden, and washed the floors with lemongrass oil.  we sleep with the windows open now, and wear jackets in the cool night.

change: my favorite season.

i've bundled and hung some herbs from the garden before they bolt; they sense the cold and turn to seed.  that dried lemon balm will be crucial to surviving the damp of winter.  also put up twenty-five pounds of tomatoes, a couple pounds of kale, and, of course, bourbon peach jam...

i've neglected to post about some important herbal activities of the summer, including befriending some ferns in the mountains, sewing my heavy nettle patch onto a cardigan with gold thread, and a visit from LIGHTNING PAW herself.  !!

fresh air all around now.  i'm here, writing love poems about herbs ("i want you to make me goldenrod tea/ and hang bundles above my bed"), listening to cat power, and watching cat gifs.  come visit; we've got a walnut tree in the back and sunflowers in the front and plenty of space for sound sleeping.

xoxo