This Flower is an Outlaw
Persian silk tree, also called mimosa, has a complicated history with ecology and herbal medicine.
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Reflecting on Wild Fermentation
Wait, What Even Is Wild Fermentation? If you’ve spent any time in DIY wellness spaces lately, you’ve likely seen a jar — usually cloudy, fizzing, and a little mysterious — being hailed as a living elixir. That’s wild fermentation: the process of letting naturally occurring microbes (on your fruit,
The Language of Plants
Elderflower, Field Medicine, and the Trouble With Heat When I talk about field herbalism, what I mean is a practice rooted in direct observation—something that lives between citizen science and embodied wellness. It’s a way of learning that happens by watching plants where they grow, and listening for