Tag: Herbs

• New recipe healing salve

  

  I’ve written about my favourite healing salves before but this new post updates you with some of the things that I’ve learned about over the last 12 months.

  ligayagardener

  October 16, 2026

  Herbs, remedies, salves

  calendula, DIY, english daisy, garden herbs, Gardening, herbal medicines, Herbs, kitchen herbalism, make your own remedies, nettles, plantain, st. john’s wort, wild herbs, yarrow

• Food Underfoot 2026 is on! Does your verge look like this?

  

  Food Underfoot is on again! Our fun feral foraging foray in Gawler is happening in the 27th of this month. Here’s all of the details…

  ligayagardener

  September 8, 2026

  Activism, Community, food underfoot, Foraging, Gardening, Herbs, verge gardening, weeds

  colonialism, Community, ecology, edible weeds, Food Underfoot, Foraging, Gardening, gawler, gawler community house, health, henry chenoweth park, Herbs, medicinal weeds, Nature, Sustainability, weed walk, weeds, wild edibles, wild medicinals

• Nutmeg glycerite…yummy!

  

  Nutmeg has a wonderful flavour and some great medicinal properties but needs fats to extract. That’s no good for my water-based chai tea! So, heres my compromise -glycerine!

  ligayagardener

  August 27, 2026

  Chai, Gardening, glycerites, Herbs, Kitchen, remedies

  chai, glycerine, glycerite, herbal remedies, herbalism, Herbs, myristica fragrans, nutmeg, solubility, spices

• Warning: Chemistry! Turmeric use and curcumin absorption deep dive.

  

  Turmeric is a true wonder herb but takes a little work to use it effectively. Join us here in our deep dive in our first ‘Warning: Chemistry! post.

  ligayagardener

  August 25, 2026

  Chai, chemistry, Deep Dives, Gardening, remedies

  biochemistry, black pepper, chemistry, constituents, cooking, curcumin, decoction, extraction, formulations, ginger, health, herbalism, Herbs, kitchen herbalism, make your own remedies, recipes, synergy, warning: Chemistry!

• Spring Garden Festival & Food Underfoot 2026

  

  The Spring Garden Festival is coming up and I’ll be rabbiting on about growing Ginger in our own little bioregion. Come along and have some fun.

  ligayagardener

  August 14, 2026

  food underfoot, Gardening, Herbs, Spring Garden Festival, Workshops

  elderly centre, Farmer’s Market, Food Underfoot, Foraging, galangal, gawler, gawler community house, ginger, grow your own medicine, growing, Herbs, Kadlitipari, Mt. Pleasant, presentations, propagation, Spring Garden Festival, wild edibles, wild medicinals