Herbal steams combat dry winter air to help decrease our bodies’ susceptibility to germs.
Herbal Steams
BIGGEST SALE EVER: Study Herbalism By The Fire
Learning herbs can be overwhelming: our organized approach makes it easy. You get personalized feedback on your own time while creating a fully custom herbal apothecary for your family!
Winter Gardening: Collecting the Seeds of the Year’s Labor
My herb gardens thrive on benign neglect, and one of the ways I support the plants' life cycles is by letting the kids cast seeds.
Japanese Knotweed for Dinner & Medicine
Japanese Knotweed is a perfect illustration of bioregional herbalism. This invasive plant is one of our primary defenses again Lyme infection and is a delicious, nutritious spring wild food.
Rose-Infused Honey: Rugosa & Multiflora Rose
Herbal medicine of different Rose species, & using Rose honey in formulas
SWEETGRASS // TRUSTING THE PROCESS
Last spring, we planted sweetgrass in the Botanical Sanctuary, which spread out across the marsh garden!
American Chestnuts Bear Fruit
There are so few of these trees left that are healthy enough to bloom that it’s practically unheard of to produce nuts, because they need multiple trees--but this year, they did!
Kitchen Herbalism in a Pandemic
Useful kitchen herbalism in this unpredictable time
Clinical Skills Apprentice: Online & In Person this Winter!
Join me starting in January for the Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine's personalized apprenticeship in Herbal Clinical Skills. This program is available online via live webinar and in person in Newfane, Vermont. Wednesdays 10 am to 3 pm, 40 hours of instruction plus 40 hours of guided self-study. Info here
Bark Harvest & Advanced Tincture Making: Fall Intensive Schedule
The schedule has been updated for fall intensives at the Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine. We are happy to bring back the perennially popular Bark Harvest Intensive, as well as Advanced Tincture-Making (which will happen indoors due to the vagaries of November weather in Vermont). Click here for more info!
Old Ways Herbal: Juliette Abigail Carr 