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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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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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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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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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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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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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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Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

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

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

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

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

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

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

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

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
↳ (self-reply) More in today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/zero-percent-asked-for-this-fuckery-now-name-the-lake-and-come-sit-down#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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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
The rest of today's issue → 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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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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They come back. Every time, visibly. Wilting is water leaving the cells, not decay, and the plant will drink it straight back up through the cut.
The American household throws out roughly a third of what it buys, and a meaningful slice of that was never spoiled. Only thirsty.
Cost: nothing. Time: unattended. Go look in your crisper drawer.
#Cooking #FoodWaste #Kitchen #Frugal #MutualAid #Food #Gardening #Herbalism #Solarpunk #Community #Solidarity #Druid
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Learn about which plants might work you in your home and office. #houseplants #creativity #herbalism #boostyourcreativity #writingtips #writing advice #booktok

Hi ha plantes exòtiques que podem adoptar amb la consciència tranquil·la, perquè a casa nostra, es poden cultivar fàcilment i no es comporten com a invasores.
És una sort perquè, tot i que tinguem una planta autòctona per a cada necessitat, cap planta substitueix realment a una altra. Tota espècie te un caràcter propi que la fa única.

Em venen al cap l'equinàcia, l'artemisa dolça (A.annua), la bufera (ashwagandha), i la parra de cinc fulles. D'aquestes se n'ha parlat molt. Excepte de l'última.

El jiaogulan, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, carbassa xinesa o herbavinya, és una herba enfiladissa que conté uns compostos molt similars als del ginseng, però més potents.
Un adaptogen com pocs n'hi ha. Ajuda a millorar la salut general, augmenta la Força Vital, alleuja els mals, contribueix a la regeneració, redueix la inflamació sistèmica, i jo què sé quantes coses més. Una meravella apta per tots els temperaments i moments vitals. Un elixir de la Vida. Un immens regal del món vegetal. Mereix molt més text del que aquesta app ens permet. Fresca, es pot menjar sense més processat. Te un gust dolç, similar a la regalèssia però més suau. Jo en faig tintura, o la faig en pols i en faig uns troquiscs com els de la 2a foto . Els troquiscs són una forma remeiera fàcil d'elaborar que té dos avantatges clars:

🐍al no ser un extracte, no deixem fora cap principi curatiu de la planta.
🐍 per la forma com es prenen (llepant-los fins que es desfan, que és al cap de moooolta estona) permeten actuar a consciència sobre els teixits del sistema digestiu superior, i faciliten la penetració sublingual dels principis curatius.

Hipòcrates ja parlava dels troquiscs, però avui dia poca gent sap què són. Són un altre dels molts remeis utilíssims però oblidats, de l'antiga farmàcia mediterrània, la majoria dels quals explico amb detall al curs
🧪 Remeieria tradicional Mediterrània 🫖
(al qual ja et pots inscriure i pel qual queden només 5 places)
perquè puguem recuperar les eines imprescindibles per a l'autogestió de la salut.

https://jardidelesbruixes.cat/remeieria-tradicional-mediterrania/

#adaptogen #tonic #remeieria #remeisnaturals #remeistradicionals #herbalism #herbolaria #herboristeria #herbesremeieres #salutnatural #autogestiodelasalut #autogestio #diy

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 amygdala cannot distinguish a threat on a screen from a threat in the room. Both arrive as cortisol. Hawthorn for the heart — OPCs dilate coronary vessels, effects build over 6-8 weeks. Calendula for what's inflamed. Raspberry leaf for what's cycling. The body keeps score. Tend it like the land tends itself — without asking permission.

https://twp.ai/4hrM5U

#herbalism #hawthorn #calendula #selfcare #nervoussystem #druid #plantmedicine #herbalhealing #folkmedicine #botanicals

If you enjoy Scotch-whisky based herbal liquors such as Drambuie; and

If you're also on board with the kitchen-herbalist trend of making sage-infused honey to treat/soothe winter throat ailments; then

I'm here to tell you that stirring a spoonful of sage honey into your wee dram of the-best-you-can-afford bottom-shelf blended Scotch makes a very nice gesture at the expensive liqueur.

#LuxuryForPeasants #PovertyCocktails #Scotch #Whisky #Drambuie #Licqueur #Herbalism #SageHoney #Cocktails

"Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last - and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind." - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.

[ID: Close-up of a stinging nettle plant in the forest, with purple stems and green leaves tinged with purple.]

#stingingnettle #braidingsweetgrass #robinwallkimmerer #herbs #herbalism #ediblefoods #wildharvest #wildharvesting #foraging #permaculture #regenerativeag #lifeboatacademy #homesteading #offgrid