Category: <span>Natural Health</span>

Addressing Commonly-Taught Misunderstandings of the Anti-Bacterial Nature of Wood

In the realm of commonly-held but not entirely accurate understandings around food safety, the discussion of which is safest to use in the kitchen, be it glass, plastic, silicon, steel, or wood, is apparently a very contested subject. Mainstream anti-bacterial teaching holds that plastic is safer than wood, that steel …

Ocular Herbal Healing for Human and Horse

The idea of potentially doing a workshop around herbs for you and your horse, got another boost this winter. For those who have been following me awhile, you’ll know that near the tail end of 2020, we downsized into a fifth wheel to tiny home not only our lives, but …

Clearing the Air Around Modern Versus Historical Terms and References in Medicine

While I don’t throw modern science to the wind as badly as some people around the Internet, tossing terms and understandings aside because they first heard them from mainstream medical and adjacent sources, apparently I do call enough into question that I was recently seen as an unprofessional lunatic for …

Dates Set and Registration Open for 2025 Advanced Foraging Workshops

Thanks to those of you who have shared that, in general, you are interested in these workshops. I’ve been looking at behind-the-scenes todo lists, and brainstorming ways to offer the advanced foraging workshops. Such brainstorming has led to something I am very excited about!!! The Field Kitchen!!! This weekend, I …

MORE Updates to Begin 2025!

We are on a roll!!! The latest round of updates include a new home page banner behind the free session and info tabs. There’s a new Food and Health in Scripture daily quote feature on the right side of most pages on the coaching website. A Tip Jar is now …

Rhubarb Leaf is Toxic! When Commonly Accepted Rumours Bump Up Against Properly Interpreted Sources

Sharing an article on Rhubarb leaf today, because I like how the guy thinks. Just because a claim is made means nothing if the research isn’t quoted with accessible sources, or understood in the balance of how the food might be eaten and in what quantities. When making claims ALWAYS …

Working Draft of 2025 Advanced Foraging Workshops

This went out first to my newsletter subscribers and is now posted here as well. To get on the newsletter, fill out the form to the left of this article, or click here if on a small screen that doesn’t show the left hand sidebar.  You’ll be automatically notified whenever …

2024 Fair Season Ends With a Bang! Merry Christmas!

We just wrapped up our final major craft fair of the 2024 Fall and Christmas craft fair season! We were at Rustic Reel’s Reel Christmas Market which ran for two days on Saturday and Sunday, and being as it was fully outdoors under tents for both days, we dressed for …

Next Up on the Mainstream Medicine Shortage List: Epilepsy! Can Herbs Help?

Another medicine shortage finally made mainstream news in recent days here in Canada, and it has to do with a common epilepsy drug. Published Dec. 12, 2024 11:27 a.m. PST  “TORONTO – The Canadian Epilepsy Alliance says an ongoing shortage of an epilepsy medication is leaving some patients worried they’ll …

The Government Grinch, or Creative, Re-thought Provision?

A well-meaning conservative politician that I follow across the country from me, finished off her latest mini-rant by asking if Trudeau will be ruining my Christmas. My immediate thought was, “No!”. Christmas in our house isn’t tight because of government idiocy, but instead because of lost jobs earlier in the …