Women's Herbal Healthcare
Nutritive Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe
Ready for a family-friendly main course concocted from the plant thought to be the most nutritive on the planet? Get your harvesting gloves out, grab your scissors and a bag or colander, and let's get snipping. The recipe is super adaptable to whatever you have in your cupboard + nettles (or even other spring greens).
The Deep Immunity of Chaga Functional Mushroom
Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a notably revered mushroom that could be mistaken for a hollow of a tree, a shadow, or even the leg or paw of a black bear...
Herbal Infused Oils for Your Botanical Skincare Regimen
A plant-powered skincare regimen is an excellent way to build your relationship with herbs and bring the potency of plant constituents into your life in an everyday way. The clear...
Wild Rice Functional Mushroom Soup with Shiitake and Reishi
This shiitake functional mushroom soup is hearty and warming enough for fall and winter, and light and brothy enough for spring and summer. Reishi and shiitake together are considered invaluable mushrooms that support the optimal health of the whole human body. Both mushrooms in the recipe heighten the soup's adaptogenic and immuno-supportive benefits. Plus, that craveable, savory umami flavor from the shiitakes in particular can't be beat!
Charmed Chamomile Honey Cake Paired with Chill Out Herbal Tea
This Charmed Chamomile Honey Cake recipe takes advantage of the calming, placid benefits of chamomile to balance the energy rush of a sweet treat. Pair a cup of Chill Out Tea - which stars chamomile - along with a slice of this charming cake and you have yourself a match made in herbal heaven.
How to Choose the Best Elderberry Syrup for You
We have a PSA on one of our favorite topics: herbal product quality, especially when it comes to elderberry. Elderberry (Sambucus nigra/canadensis) is one of those gateway herbs that is now ubiquitous....
Allying With First Responder Echinacea
Allying with echinacea extract during the fall and winter seasons makes all the difference between a two-week-long battle with the aches, pains, and sniffles and perhaps a day-long bout of the immune system rising to a particular challenge. This herb can be compared to a first responder of the plant world - strong, reliable, adaptable, and equipped to jump in and save the day at a moment's notice. A dependable friend, echinacea is well-suited to a protocol of foundational herbal support to keep you well during any time of the year.
Sunny Sunchoke Pickles and Jerusalem Artichoke Relish
Jeannie, our fearless leader, is a High Rock Farm girl at heart and loves her daddy's handwriting, especially when it's documenting a favorite family recipe, like these amazingly flavorful Jerusalem...
The Brain Boosting Benefits of Lion's Mane Mushroom
Exploring the temperate rainforests of western North Carolina on a misty, damp weekday morning, a blotch of white in the midst of swaths of dark grey tree bark captures my...
Weeds at Our Feet: What Do They Mean?
Living in the Wise Woman Way In my heart, the practice of the Wise Woman Tradition is an ancestral health-affirming belief that passes down from generation to generation even in...
Contemplating a Liver Detox? Read This First
Is it Detox You're After? Or Depth? Only you know the answer to the question posed above. But don't rush into answering it without letting the relevant organ systems of your...
Five Ways to Understand More About an Herb
A PSA about learning your herbs and five methods you can use to learn more about an herb with which you're interested in developing a deeper relationship: 1. Organoleptics -...
