The Winter Solstice The winter solstice is when the earth’s tilt is at the maximum point away from the sun and marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is traditionally called Read more…
The Spicy Root Ginger and some Marvellous Medicine
Roots are generally high in polysaccharides (long chain sugars which act as energy for the plant) giving them sweetness, and nutty nourishment; great medicine. One of our most commonly found roots (although we usually have Read more…
Hot Spiced Apple Juice & Dandelion
The winter is upon us and each glimmer of colour and light, that we are granted in the skies above, is a total gift. The days are getting shorter and darker as the count down Read more…
The Season of the Pumpkin
Halloween /Samhain is coming up and it is falling upon a Fullmoon Lunar vibration this year. We love this wonderfully connective festival of honouring our dead and the cycles of life. Halloween /Samhain celebrations mark a very Read more…
Sweet Chestnuts
We were up in the woods yesterday in glorious sunshine foraging for autumnal goodies! What joy this abundant and fruitful time of the year always brings – having children with us was brilliant too as Read more…
Reishi – Mushroom of Immortality
It is mushroom season which is an extremely exciting time for us Seed Sistas we love the Fungal world and are especially interested in all the medical ones that fill our forests. Here Mycologist and Read more…
Birch Polypore
Seed Sista Karen waxes lyrical about her love affair with the eyes of the underworld…the mycelium medicinal wonderment autumnal wanderers, the mushrooms… It is Mushroom season, the woods are full of exciting delights….. My mother Read more…
Hearty Hawthorn
Hawthorn berries hang out side by side with rosehips in our native hedgerows in the Autumn months, our most abundant season. It is time to harvest, preserve and store the berries in their various guises Read more…
3 Ways to Beat Urinary Tract Infections UTIs
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) can affect different parts of your urinary tract, including your bladder (cystitis), urethra (urethritis) or kidneys (kidney infection). If you visit the GP with the symptoms of an UTI you will Read more…
Working with Wild Plant Medicines in Canada
Us Seed SistAs met Latifa many years ago now, a fellow herbalist and as passionate about plants as we are and a real lover of the Pine trees. Here we host some of her important Read more…
