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Honey has been used for thousands of years to promote wound healing, provide nutrients, and sooth coughs. But does honey really have healing properties? Are there any downsides to using honey? Let’s take a look at the facts, traditions, and ...

It is not too late to plant your herb garden! If you are planting in July, provide extra shade and water to tender young plants. Choose herbs for your gardens conditions. You can change growing conditions, but it is easier ...

Herbs have been used since the beginning of humankind. Cultivation of herbs has occurred for millennia. Herbs are grown for flavoring, preserving, and medicinal uses. They are used as dyes and for ritual and worship. Herb gardens are grown for ...

Try these herbs in your herb garden. You will have herbs for beauty, flavoring and medicine. Catnip: This member of the mint family is fun for kitties and good medicine for calming colicky babies. It likes rich moist soil and ...

Summer is a great time to gather wild plants to eat and store for winter health. Gathering can be a terrific family activity as well. Raspberry, blueberry, strawberry and blackberry are abundant in many locales. All yield tasty berries and ...

Wild crafting is the term given for collecting wild plants. Wild plants often have strong healing properties and exceptional flavor. I have never tasted a store bought strawberry that compared in flavor to the tiny alpine ones that grow freely ...

Headache, Muscle, and Cramp Capsules Did you know that aspirin was first made from common plants? Willow bark and meadowsweet both contain the active ingredient used to make aspirin. Like many other herbs, these two have safety mechanisms built right ...

In a pinch, herbs can be applied directly to the skin as needed, so get to know the wild plants in your area and the benefits they afford. The simplest way to apply an herb to the skin is to ...

Make an herbal cough syrup to have on hand when colds, sinus infections, or flu appear. Syrups care is also an excellent way to administer herbs to children. I use maple syrup as the sweet base, as that is what ...

Over the next four weeks, I am going to tell you how you can make your own herbal first-aid kit from common herbs that are readily available. Sources of the herbs include your kitchen, garden, fields, woods and occasionally, herb ...