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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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from road-building, airstrips, missionary pressure, warfare, tourism, industrial penetration, dam-building, local greed on the part of settlers, or various efforts to “civilise” the natives.”

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

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from road-building, airstrips, missionary pressure, warfare, tourism, industrial penetration, dam-building, local greed on the part of settlers, or various efforts to “civilise” the natives.”

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

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from road-building, airstrips, missionary pressure, warfare, tourism, industrial penetration, dam-building, local greed on the part of settlers, or various efforts to “civilise” the natives.”

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

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from road-building, airstrips, missionary pressure, warfare, tourism, industrial penetration, dam-building, local greed on the part of settlers, or various efforts to “civilise” the natives.”

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

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from road-building, airstrips, missionary pressure, warfare, tourism, industrial penetration, dam-building, local greed on the part of settlers, or various efforts to “civilise” the natives.”

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

“Many Indigenous groups around the world – the Indians of the Amazonian regions, for example – are literally masters of their ambient vegetation as a result of inherited knowledge. This knowledge – of great potential value to humanity as a whole – is unfortunately doomed to extinction with the rapid acculturation and westernisation in many parts of the globe where Indigenous peoples can still live peacefully without disruption

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

“Many Indigenous groups around the world – the Indians of the Amazonian regions, for example – are literally masters of their ambient vegetation as a result of inherited knowledge. This knowledge – of great potential value to humanity as a whole – is unfortunately doomed to extinction with the rapid acculturation and westernisation in many parts of the globe where Indigenous peoples can still live peacefully without disruption

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

“Many Indigenous groups around the world – the Indians of the Amazonian regions, for example – are literally masters of their ambient vegetation as a result of inherited knowledge. This knowledge – of great potential value to humanity as a whole – is unfortunately doomed to extinction with the rapid acculturation and westernisation in many parts of the globe where Indigenous peoples can still live peacefully without disruption

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

“Many Indigenous groups around the world – the Indians of the Amazonian regions, for example – are literally masters of their ambient vegetation as a result of inherited knowledge. This knowledge – of great potential value to humanity as a whole – is unfortunately doomed to extinction with the rapid acculturation and westernisation in many parts of the globe where Indigenous peoples can still live peacefully without disruption

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

“Many Indigenous groups around the world – the Indians of the Amazonian regions, for example – are literally masters of their ambient vegetation as a result of inherited knowledge. This knowledge – of great potential value to humanity as a whole – is unfortunately doomed to extinction with the rapid acculturation and westernisation in many parts of the globe where Indigenous peoples can still live peacefully without disruption

~ Richard Evans Schultes

#quotes
#plants
#herbalism
#indigenous

A plant to plant, not a plant to dose. Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break.

What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk

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Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers.

Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off.

The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century.

What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk

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Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on.

Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September.
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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If you play Herb & Fable and would like to contribute to the feedback and future development of Herb & Fable you can find the 2026 survey link in the Discord or in-world group -AND earn a new badge!

#secondlife #pagan @pagan #herbalism #witchcraft #gaming @secondlife #herbandfable

And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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The leaf is fan-shaped and split down the middle like a small green pair of lungs, on a tree that has been around for fuckin longer than most of us have.

Standardized extract is the measure, usually 120–240mg daily, and it honestly helps your memory state hold true. It does mine anyway. It can and does help.

#Herbalism #Ginkgo #MedicinalPlants #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Wellness #QueerNews

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What's coming up in your yard this week?
#Chickweed #Foraging #Herbalism #WildFood #Herbs #Plants #Botany #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Garden #Solarpunk
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Read this part: skip it if pregnant or nursing, and talk to a doctor first if you take thyroid medication or sedatives, have an autoimmune condition, or any liver trouble. It's a nightshade. Short courses.

What do you reach for when the jaw won't unclench?

#Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary #Wellbeing #Folklore
↳ reply: Today's Gathering → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Half a teaspoon of ashwagandha root, cold into whole-milk yogurt, cinnamon, a thread of honey. Evening. No heat — everything else this month has already been simmered. It tastes like a barn in the rain and the yogurt carries it

There's no Gaelic name for this plant. It never grew anywhere near that coast, and I like saying so — the pharmacopoeia belongs to everybody or it belongs to none #Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary
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Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.

Aran — bread.

What does your house do with the stale end?

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.

They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced.

Bi socair — be still.

What are you growing that won't pay off for years?

#Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking
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Walk your block. Check the stone walls, the old headstones, the north side of the trees.

What's growing on the stone where you are?

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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Do not eat it. Lichens absorb everything from the air; that's their whole nature, and it makes many of them mildly toxic and all of them efficient collectors of whatever drifts past.

The medicine isn't in the mouth. It's in the reading. Lichen is the oldest air-quality monitor ever built.

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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Look on old stone. A thick pale crust, gray to buff, broken into small tiles with a darker rim, welded flat against granite anywhere the sun is hard and the water is scarce.

Lobothallia alphoplaca. Not a plant. A fungus and an alga that gave up living separately so long ago the arrangement counts as one organism now, growing a fraction of a millimetre a year.

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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Tastes like hay and honey and a little like the meadow's own sweat. A blood-mover. An old friend to the lymph.

My grandmother never called it a phytoestrogen.

She'd have said it cools the blood, and she'd have been right on the merits.

What do you reach for when the blood runs hot?

#Herbalism #RedClover #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #FolkMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Apothecary #Plants #Druid #Pagan #QueerWitch #WildCrafting #Botany

More in today's Gathering: https://twp.ai/4hsg75

Red clover — seamrag dhearg. Pick the blossoms in full sun after the dew burns off, when the heads are dry and springy and the bees have had their turn.

Steep a heaping tablespoon in near-boiling water, covered, ten minutes. Covered matters — that's the whole medicine going up your ceiling otherwise.

#Herbalism #RedClover #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #FolkMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Apothecary #Plants #Druid #Pagan #QueerWitch #WildCrafting #Botany

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It asks nothing but a weedy sunny corner. What do you reach for when a hard week rattles your heart?

#Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #Motherwort #Foraging #Druid #Plants #Apothecary #Gaelic #Pride #QueerNews #Nature #Solidarity #FolkMedicine

Luibh a' chridhe — the herb of the heart.

Motherwort, the lion's-tail. A strong short steep of the dried leaf when the chest won't settle and the news has your pulse over-revved. The Latin cardiaca earns its keep — generations of women reached for the lion's-tail when the heart wouldn't quiet.
#Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #Motherwort #Foraging #Druid #Plants #Apothecary #Gaelic #Pride #QueerNews #Nature #Solidarity #FolkMedicine

The weed in the sidewalk crack — common mallow— is the plant of the household, some of the old tongues called it.

Simmer the young leaves slow eight or ten minutes until the pot turns silky. That silk is mucilage, and it's the whole gift — it soothes a throat the summer smoke scraped raw.

It grows free in the one place nobody thinks to look.
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Tulsi — holy basil — for the nerve the heat fried.

A handful of fresh leaves, or a teaspoon dried, steeped five minutes lid-on, drunk cooled or iced. An adaptogen that takes the heat-frayed nerve and talks it down, clove-scented. The Gaelic kitchen never knew this plant. The body knows it anyway.

#Tulsi #HolyBasil #HerbalMedicine #Adaptogen #Herbalism #SelfCare #Pride #QueerNews #TransRights #LGBTQIAPlus #Community #Solidarity
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The Big Book of Herbal Medicine: 300 Natural Remedies for Health and Wellness "Tap into nature's medicine cabinet and alleviate your ailments" Sale: $17.99 to $1.99 by Tina Sams Rating: 4.7/5 (1,175 Reviews) #herbalism #remedies #wellness #books #nature #health #botanicals #booksky

The Big Book of Herbal Medicin...

The Big Book of Herbal Medicine: 300 Natural Remedies for Health and Wellness "Tap into nature's medicine cabinet and alleviate your ailments" Sale: $17.99 to $1.99 by Tina Sams Rating: 4.7/5 (1,175 Reviews) #herbalism #remedies #wellness #books #nature #health #botanicals #booksky

The Big Book of Herbal Medicin...

The Big Book of Herbal Medicine: 300 Natural Remedies for Health and Wellness "Tap into nature's medicine cabinet and alleviate your ailments" Sale: $17.99 to $1.99 by Tina Sams Rating: 4.7/5 (1,175 Reviews) #herbalism #remedies #wellness #books #nature #health #botanicals #booksky

The Big Book of Herbal Medicin...