Crabapple twitter for the week of 2009-05-10
Glad to find so much chicory in the barnyard this year. # Feeding my little tomato and pepper seedlings some well-rotted cow manure. # Braised beef heart is lovely on a cool, rainy day. # Oh, my,...
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Frustrated that the USDA plants site is down. # At an herbal consult last week… Client: Can I make my tinctures with moonshine? Me: Why not? (I love being an herbalist in West Virginia.) # So glad Matt...
View ArticleCrabapple twitter for the week of 2009-05-24
Late frost. # Off to cover the frost-tender plants! # Our neighbor’s eggs with seven herbs from the garden. (Savory, parsley, marjoram, thyme, oregano, tarragon, sage.) Good morning! # Surprised at the...
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Stepped on a wasp. Thank goodness for plantain spit poultices! # Rest peacefully Juliette de Baïracli Levy. http://bit.ly/JAdJY #
View ArticleCrabapple twitter for the week of 2009-06-14
You know it’s been raining a long time when you can pull a yellow dock root straight out of the ground without any effort. #
View ArticleWhile I’m hiding, here’s something to check out.
The Herbwife’s Fiancé has his own blog now. (Yes, that’s the Herbwife’s Fiancé, recently upgraded from the Herbwife’s Boyfriend.)
View ArticleRead the fine print: who funded that study?
Whenever I hear about new medical research, I always ask one question first: who funded it? Too often, reporters — even reporters for respected news sources like Reuters — don’t give us this...
View ArticleGrowing things.
So I’ve been busy lately. Not a lot of energy for blogging (building a human is a bit tiring, apparently). But I was inspired to go to a meeting of local folks interested in food and farming today. It...
View ArticleBack online. Maybe for real!
Hi folks. We had a nasty hack infecting the server this blog lives on. I’m partway through cleanup — this blog is online again (let me know if parts are broken), but the herbwifery forum is proving...
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