In late July 2020, a friend invited me to pick newly ripened elderberries in her Portland yard. She’s got two — just two! — of the shrubs growing, and she can’t keep up. Knowing how coveted they are as medicine, she didn’t want them going to waste. I eagerly...
My med-school bestie is starting her first(ish) garden this year. She’s mostly growing veggies in pots, mostly on the porch of her Seattle apartment. She’s found gardening to be a positive thing in her current pandemic reality, soothing and exciting and rewarding....
Yes, I love all the plants and their medicines. So it really is never fair for me to call one plant/medicine my “favorite.” Still, artichoke is one of my top-tier favorites. It started when I was a kid: My mother is always very proper, eating (and...
Honey is one of nature’s great preservatives. And it’s a delicious way to extend access to one of the great garden medicines: rose petals. Roses are the flowers of love for good reason. Their fragrance is uplifting not only because of our mental associations with it,...
