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Lomatium and Echinacea
Today while I was at the dentist for a cleaning my hygienist and I talked about Covid vaccines among other things, as one does when seated in a dentist’s chair. We then began to discuss the herb Echinacea. My hygienist had her first Covid vaccine about two weeks ago, and today or tomorrow she's going for her second round. After her first vaccine she experienced headaches and fatigue for about 26 hours and then it stopped. Where Echinacea comes in is it boosts the immune system. So we both got to thinking maybe it would help with the symptoms from...
Winter has come to Port Townsend
Well, winter has finally come to Port Townsend. The frost has given the gardens a chance to sleep and the wood stoves are hot. So what do I do? I burn my finger putting wood in the stove!
Ouch, that hurt!
Herbal Thanksgiving
I have been giving a lot of thought to writing a blog and what I would like to share with you for the first post. So I settled on my birds to start in this first essay since it is Turkey week for many of us. I raise chickens and most recently ducks. Each night they get closed into a pen for safety and let out at different times in the day so as to not set a pattern for predators to follow. The birds are let out to wander through the gardens eating a bit of this and a...