Author: <span>BNHC</span>

Happy Celebration Week! And News of Our Own Too!

Happy Canada Day (July 1st) to my Canadian readers, and Happy Independence Day (July 4th) to my US readers!  Here at home, we spent Canada Day more or less in recovery mode after how June went.  Not that June was bad, but it was incredibly busy between several large fairs, …

Devotional: The Tale of the Cereal Bowl (or God vs our understanding of answered prayer)

Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring …

Foraging, Tea Sales, and Long-term Conundrum

Sitting here exhausted, but very pleased with today’s foraging run! We visited two zones today, both public access, and brought home over 20 pounds of foraged herb! Three of those herbs are integral to the tea business: nettle, alfalfa, and catnip. Of those three, the alfalfa is now closest to …

Wildcrafted Tea Chat (or is that a coffee chat. . . ) Amazing Rendezvous and Summer Outlook

THAT was a weekend! We were at Creative Chaos in Vernon over the weekend, a three-day massive craft fair bringing vendors from across Canada! We were able to reconnect with a herbalist who got us started on our wildcrafted herbal journey 10 years ago on Canada Day. That had to …

Book, Fair, and Workshop Update

Time for an update! 2025 continues it’s crazy trajectory and we’ve now hit full throttle between attending fairs, prepping for fairs, foraging to catch up on ingredients we’d run out of, BUT. . . we’re starting to indeed catch up! Which is a good thing as we have Creative Chaos …

Foraging Escapades, Writing, and Workshops

We are a couple days away from the Arrowleaf Balsamroot Advanced Foraging Workshop on Saturday. Registration closed for this one back on May 3rd. The next upcoming Advanced Foraging Workshop is taking place June 28th, and that one will be covering making yummy foods with the flower buds of Canada …

Foraging, Fairs, Workshops, and Drawbacks of Social Media Reliance

Well that was a week! We foraged in two private property zones last Monday, then we hit the rail trail on Thursday not far from us. Both trips were for alfalfa first, gathering a few chokecherry leaves here and there, some curly dock, more yarrow, more desert parsley, etc. The …

TIA’s versus Asthmatic Symptoms – When the Symptoms and Answers Aren’t Quite the Same

My daughter has been taking her herbalist certificate training at an accredited college recognized by both the BC and Federal government of Canada. The main herbology textbook has been a nightmare of 1800’s style medicine, written in 1800’s style English, while having an original copyright date of 1969 and the …