Tag: herbalism
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Super skin saving salve
Salves can be your salvation when you’re injured or in pain. Here’s how to make your own general healing salve using commonly found ingredients.
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We’ve more herbs than your average herb book!
135 entries for: 38 garden herbs, 38 wild herbs, 5 so far unsorted, and 40 Bushfoods! 17 Wild Fungi and 6 Seaweeds! All local, all easily grown or foragable and all written about from personal experience! Can you ask for better than that?
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Goo!
Leave Chia seeds in water for a long while and you’ll get a wonderful, gooey mucilage that can help your digestion, reduce inflammation and boost your immuntiy. Chia (Salvia hispanica) is in the Mint (Lamiaceae) family and shares this feature with other members of the family such as Basil. Basil seeds are used in the…
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Food Underfoot 2025 is now on Sunday, Sept 14th, at 11 am.
September 7th 2025 is the date for this year’s Food Underfoot feral foraging foray. Read all about it in this post and book your tickets to come along.
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It’s the best time for Mallows!
Our local Mallow isn’t the Marshmallow of Northern hemisphere herbalists but is rather the Small Flowered Mallow, Malva parviflora. It does have its appeals, though and, as with many of the Malvaceae, it has a good level of nutrition plus a soothing mucilage that is present in all parts of the plant. Try some for…
