The first tincture I ever made was Calendula, but it turned out this was not the plant I thought it was.
Tag: Martha Ballard
Plantain Beginnings
When Martha Ballard's niece was ill in 1794, she made her a syrup that contained plantain. Two hundred and twenty-three years later, I learned that this useful herb was growing wild in my backyard.
A-Wildcrafting We Will Go
Wildcrafting is the methodology of those who gather medicinal plants from the wild. Surprisingly, its basic tenets are not all that different from the methods and ethics of the historian.
