Herb Mentor - Fantastic Herbal Resource

Passing along the word about one of my favorite online herbal places ... www.herbmentor.com ....

Although I am affectionately considered a 'casual user' you can basically tailor the intensity of your herbal learning through the site for seriously cheap. (how DO they do it?) It's awesome.

Herbalist Angie Goodlow posted a great entry about it that covers the details (not worth trying to duplicate!) so here ya go:

The Herbalists Path

Thanks Angie and thanks John!!!!

OPEN HOUSE - Great Hollow Wilderness School!

Great Hollow Wilderness School

Whole Earth Homeschool Program
FREE Open House
March 6th 9:00am to 12:00pm

Come get a taste of what Great Hollow has to offer your homeschoolers!! We are offering this FREE Open House to families who have never experienced Great Hollow Wilderness School.

The Whole Earth program consists of several weekly classes focused on Nature based education or adventure leadership. We develop long term mentoring relationships with our students as we facilitate a deeper connection to nature, other people, and themselves.

During our open house we will take you on a nature walk, participate in some of our favorite nature awareness games and team building initiatives and explore some of the beautiful places we visit during our programs. You will get a chance to meet some current students who can give your children an idea of a student’s perspective.

Space is limited, so call 203.746.5852 to reserve a spot and get directions!!


Great Hollow Wilderness School
225 Route 37, New Fairfield, CT 06812
E-mail: homeschool@regionalymca.org

Coming of age: Spring

The Earth turns in her growing skin, uncomfortably like a first sip of wine or a first kiss. The sun glows down, seducing the green from slumber, like a dance from Baubo. The snow, on it's way down to the roots, turns an ugly shade of slop, sticking angrily to our pants and boots, as if to stamp her adolescent complaint on our day. The ground melts and freezes, melts and freezes, obeying the shapeshifting weather. Mother in her round power soothes her belly with bird songs and wintergreen leaves crushed under paws. She breathes up the birch sap with each contraction, giving flow to life and anesthesia to winter's sting. She sings up a grand Menarche in each Maple trunk, and releases the snowdrop munchkins from hiding. She hums the bears awake and cracks the chains of early dusk. Grandmother drum keeps the veil thin while Spring becomes.

Welcome.

Blog Party: Aphrodisiacs

Welcome!

The Herbwifery Blog Party is anchored here this month, with lovely herbalists sharing their favorite routes to a juicy libido.

UPDATE: A new guest post from Robin Rose Bennett on Passion Honey has been added! Yum!

Kristena from Blessings of an Herbwyfe shares with us the sensual wisdom of Damiana.

Julie at Crow's Daughter takes us on a lyrical journey with our ally Hawthorne.

Darcey Blue at Gaia's Gifts offers a Lover's elixir recipe. mmmmm

More entries can be emailed to me, posted at Herbwifery.org, or on a comment here.

Green Blessings!

Wishing Willow

Pure feminine essence.

February Blog Party ~ Aphrodisiacs!!

Raise your Kundalini this Valentine's Day with nourishing herbal aphrodisiacs!

To participate:

Write a blog post about your favorite Love potion number nine's and send me the link or post it on the Herbwifery thread. Entries are due February 5. I'll compile the final list here.

Invite the birds to come out and court!

Frogs

It's been hard to write here, not just because the holidays are overwhelming, but because all the plants are underground. I missed the last (two?) blog parties simply because I don't know who is hosting them or where they went in cyberspace (better central location?). My hopes for the winter were in my two Rosemary plants who I brought indoors to keep my spirits up through the cold months. I kept them both well sunned and moist, but alas they both died complete deaths. Last year my rosemary plant was fine. Who knows.

So I am forced to enjoy grocery store organic basil and herbal infusions, my very basic but necessary staples.

OK the frog. That is a beautiful specimen of the Tomato Frog, taken at the Aquarium last week. We've been studying frogs here in my household, and they are endlessly fascinating. Since I didn't have any plants to photo - might as well post the frog :)