If you’d like to learn more about permaculture, here is a list of books, videos, and websites to help you along your journey. Websites Forums permies.com – the home page is beautiful and the forum is rather rough-looking, but it is searchable and there is great info in it. You…

I’m actually writing this post because I will NOT retain this in my head. I do not retain anything numerical. I am a word person (like that alliteration I put right there in the title of this post). This is some general information I found about dosage equivalents for liquid…

In my quest to learn more about witches, I got curious about the 5-pointed star called a pentagram in some places and a pentacle in others. A quick Google search explained the nuances of that—a 5-pointed star, which looks like the one we draw on paper without lifting the pen,…

Try this on: I am magical.You are magical.We all are magical. How did that feel? Now, try this on: I am magic.You are magic.We all are magic. Did that feel different? To me, the first one is a state of being, and the second one is a state of doing.…

Dandelion Forest shall live on as my love letter to the earth, in this blog, in my personal herbalism. It’s my “company” name, although it’s also the name I gave this little corner of the world we inhabit. But we’re leaving. And it’s mostly my doing. Actually, it’s pretty much…

You know how when a person or animal you love appears in your dreams? (I hope you’ve experienced that because it’s magical.) Well, one day, I was thinking about my dad and decided to see if I could bring him into my dreams. He’s been gone from the earth for…

Last week I did a very bad thing. I let fear get the best of me. But I’m not sure what else I would have done, because I was protecting my family and the dog. Still, I felt deep sorrow. And I got reprimanded by the bees the following day.…

I was in the U.K. this month for two weeks. We saw Scotland and England. When my husband and I decided we would go to England for the second week, I told him that the one must-see in England for me was Stonehenge. “For me, too,” he answered. During my…

In the Intuitive Plant Medicine course I have just begun, they talk about the Wheel of the Year and about starting to pay attention to cycles and how you feel during them. There are a few cycles we could pay attention to—like moon cycles (every 28 days), months (12 of…

A while back I wrote an article on identifying Poison Ivy vs. Wild Sarsaparilla. I wrote it because when I went searching for how to ID both plants by their roots I came up empty. I won’t repeat that info here, you can read the post if you are interested.…

This Mother’s Day, my daughter blessed me with The Herbal Astrology Oracle. I had seen this deck come across as an Amazon suggestion, and it looked like it would be pretty, but I thought, “I have a problem with buying too many decks and I don’t really know astrology, anyway.”…