Nature Wisdom & Recipes

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Northern Colorado’s Spring Botanicals: A Safe Forager’s Guide to Nature’s Medicine Cabinet

This guide teaches safe, ethical foraging of Northern Colorado’s spring herbs like dandelion and chickweed, emphasizing proper ID, sustainable harvesting, and practical herbal uses for wellness.

Walk with Nature: John Muir’s Wisdom for Everyday Wellness

John Muir’s wisdom highlights nature’s power to reduce stress and calm the mind. Embrace simple outdoor practices, herbal remedies, and personalized wellness for lasting balance and well-being.

Build Your Herbal and Mushroom Routine: A Beginner’s Guide for Stress, Sleep, and Steady Energy

Create a personalized herbal routine for stress, sleep, and energy using Tulsi, Reishi, and Lion’s Mane. Start small, match herbs to daily rhythms, ensure safety, and build sustainable habits.

It’s the most pine-derful time of year!

This time of year, most of my plant friends are slumbering for the winter. But Colorado has some of the most beautiful winter landscapes and medicine in the winter months. Pine! My family has spent the last 9ish years wandering and hiking through the Larimer County...

Dandilion Breakfast Salad – Taraxacum officinale

The entire plant is edible, but today, we talk about the leaves. It's April, and dandelion is popping up in the yard. It is one of the first greens to present itself after the cold winter months. It has used most of the starches collected in the roots over the last...

The Love Truffle

February is a tough time of year for many. It's still pretty dark and cold days. But the sun is creeping in a bit more as time goes on. It makes sense to me that our ancestors from all global belief structures would be holding hope and love ceremonies for the Spring...

Sage Throat Spray

Once upon a time, long, long (maybe not that long 2015) ago, a practicing herbalist for over 13 years, had the worst throat pain she had ever had. She knew all the "throat" herbs and had tried every remedy she could from her library of books. 3 nights passed of no...

Pumpkin Hot Cocoa

Happy Halloween Friends! This is one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is cooler after the hot summer, yet we aren't dealing with mud like the Spring Season. I have fond memories of being a young person and getting a taste of freedom on this special night....

Fire Cider Pickles

What is Fire Cider? Fire cider is a vinegar-based herbal remedy that was first formulated and named by beloved herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. It is now a popular home herbal remedy and made by thousands of herbalists every year.  While the exact ingredients of the...