Category: <span>Natural Health</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, …

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 …

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 …

Legalities of Foraging in BC, Canada

A recent article published on Castanet, a local news site, erroneously has claimed that it is illegal to dig up Arrowleaf Balsamroot on crown land here in BC. When I asked for sources, they sent me this link, where I immediately noticed the reporter’s error: Collection 2 (1) Subject to …

Update on my concussion/contusion incident from Easter weekend

Readers may remember the heavy duty eye oil infusion that my daughter used to knock down the inflammation that was forming at the back of her eye when we were out doing some repairs around our place before Christmas. Over the past few weeks, beginning around late March and stretching …

First Foraging Run of Spring 2025, Passover, and Using Our Own Herbal Medicine

Here we are, the evening of Good Friday, the day we give thanks and express our gratitude for Jesus Christ choosing to take our sin upon Himself and carry it to the cross on our behalf, tearing in two the veil that separated man from God, because now the way …

Spring Wellness Fair and 3 Days Crammed Into One for a Home School Workshop Adventure!

Well, well, well. . . if that weekend wasn’t another knock-em-out-of-the-park whirlwind! We attended both the Vernon Wellness Fair on Saturday and Sunday, as well as put on a concatenated version of my 3-day Make Your Own Trailkit Advanced Foraging Workshop on Monday! What made the wellness fair successful wasn’t …

2025 Spring Foraging VS Spring Craft and Wellness Fairs!

We have Impact! Or is that Lift-off?!! The Great Collision has occurred and Ashley felt I should be alerting you to the potential fall-out. You see. . . It’s the beginning of April, and plants are growing again, some more quickly than others, but growing just the same.  Spring markets …

Another COVID Shot Side Effect is Rearing It’s Head: Tuberculosis. What is TB and can Herbs Help?

Today’s blog post is brought to you by more “adverse events” being reported from those who have taken the “shot”.  That news will be linked to partway through this piece.  To begin with, what is TB?! Tuberculosis is a bacterial-caused infection that most understand to affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is …