Tag: <span>arrowleaf balsamroot</span>

Next Wellness Fair This Sunday, and Practical Foraging Thoughts

Well, it’s the eve of wellness fair weekend again. This time, the wellness fair is at a winery in South East Kelowna, at The Vibrant Vine on Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. I will be there offering my Biblical Natural Health Coaching along with my daughter selling her wildcrafted looseleaf …

Another Rant: Offloading The Need to Cope onto Herbal Psychotropics

It is a wonder as I get deeper into natural health, to observe people trying to find legal, safe (???), psychotropic drugs that they can repurpose for non-psychotropic purposes. I have never done drugs of any type in a recreational manner, let alone psychotropics such as those currently being studied …

When a Picture is Worth More than Just Words – Glycerine Tincture-Making

We have just successfully made a non-vanilla-bean vanilla extract!  We have another non-vanilla-bean-extract experiment going now as well with a different plant.  That plant, according to Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada by Lonepine Publishing, is still used today to lend a vanilla flavour to sweets and such, so when …

A Tea Order and A Marathon Foraging Run – Reminder of Upcoming Foraging Workshops

Today’s foraging run is brought to you buy a custom tea request at the recent wellness fair, that was hoped to be a wild flavour version similar to Earl Grey. The purchaser liked the smell, and if the recipient likes the tea, we need to be ready for potential re-orders. …