Making Medicine: Preparing Wild Chaga

Our full moon gathering of wild chaga yielded abundance that we are now processing into useable forms of chaga, for tea, for tincture/extraction, as well as skin preparations.  Wild chaga is very dense, hard, and much like the wood it grows upon, and does not break down easily.  This is how we chose to work…

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Full Moon Rising: Gathering Medicine

Damp fall air.  Cool and moist a mist falling quietly on and off as the morning stretched herself into day.  I tied on my moccasins, the ones I was gifted for Christmas from my loving man and boys, who knew how much I loved them and how they spoke to my soul.  Fringed, supple, bold, I…

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Sustainability

Sustainability is more than a trend, it is becoming a desired way to live.  More and more I hear the term sustainablility, self- sustainable, etc. What is sustainability you might ask? dictionary.com defines sustainability as this: Sustainability (noun) the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed Mirriam-Webster defines sustainable as this: Sustainable (adjective) able…

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