Wednesday, June 16, 2010

15 June 2010

Red Clover 2

Plants
  • Red clover
  • Chamomile
  • Rose
  • Nettle
  • Motherwort
  • Angelica
  • Sweet Cicely
  • Feverfew
  • Comfrey
  • Elecampane
  • Peppermint
  • Spearmint
  • Chickweed
  • Valerian
  • St. John'sWort
  • Yarrow
Activities
  • Harvested red clover blossoms
  • De-bugged red clover
  • Harvested chamomile blossoms
  • Harvested rose petals

Friday, May 07, 2010

May 4, 2010

Plants:
  •  Mayapple
  • Lily of the valley
  • Bloodroot
  • Valerian
  • Violet
  • St. John's Wort
  • Lemon balm
  • Chamomile
  • Self heal
  • Black cohosh
  • True Solomon's seal
  • Herb Robert
  • Horsetail
  • Goldenrod
  • Wild ginger
  • Cinquefoil
  • Burdock
  • Chickweed
  • Nettle
  • Garlic chives
  • Angelica
Activities:
  • Weeded culinary bed and circle bed
  • Dug valerian root
  • Made (and drank) valerian root tea
  • Harvested and ate violet leaves and flowers
  • Talked about good basic herbal books
Homework: 
  • Set up a template for herb profiles on computer
  • Make a profile of dandelion and bring in for discussion
  • Make some violet recipes

Monday, May 03, 2010

27 April 2010


Plants:
  • Mayapple
  • Blue cohosh
  • Black cohosh
  • Pasque flower
  • Shepherd's purse
  • Lobelia
  • Calendula
  • Nettle
  • Ostrich fern
  • Violet
  • Hops
  • Wild ginger
  • Chickweed
  • Sedum
  • Creeping charlie
Activities:
  • Decanted tinctures and vinegars using herb press
  • Reviewed Standard Operating Procedures for production
Homework:
  • Read about making oils in Healing Wise
  • Harvest dandelion leaves for salad. Choose leaves with no buds or flowers. Also, taste leaves of plants with buds or flowers.
  • Make a dandelion flower tea
  • Try a dandelion recipe using leaves/flowers and one using roots
  • Make a list of all plants met in chronological order

Thursday, April 22, 2010

22 April 2010


Plants:
  • Nettle
  • Violet
  • Spearmint
  • Peppermint
  • Oregano
  • Yarrow
  • Bloodroot
  • Wild leek
  • Meadow rue
  • Trout lily
  • Dutchman's britches
  • English primrose
  • Comfrey
  • Red trillium
  • Wild lily of the valley
  • Black cohosh
  • Sweet fern
  • Ostrich fern
  • Sensitive fern
  • Wild ginger
  • Wild yam
Activities:
  • Weeded oregano bed
  • Weeded nettle
  • Replanted nettle (in bare hands!)
  • Replanted yarrow
  • Pulled older herb packages from baskets
  • Alphabetized medicines
  • Picked fiddleheads
  • Walked in woods
Homework:
  • Read Susun Weed's Healing Wise chapters on nettles and dandelions

Thursday, April 15, 2010

15 April 2010


Plants:
  • Lemon balm
  • Thyme
  • Columbine
  • Self Heal
  • Bloodroot
  • Lungwort (Mary and Joseph)
  • Wild Leek
  • Sweet Woodruff
  • Chamomile
  • Angelica
  • Valerian
Activities:
  • Prepared new bed for lemon balm
  • Planted lemon balm from Tuesday
  • Weeded thyme bed
  • Weeded bloodroot
  • Weeded sweet woodruff

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

13 April 2010

Plants:
  • Oregano
  • Lemon Balm
  • Creeping Charlie
  • Echinacea
  • Valerian
  • St. John's Wort
  • Chamomile
  • Dandelion
  • Chickweed
  • Self Heal
  • Day Lily
  • Forget-me-not
Activities:
  • Weeding circle bed
  • Dividing and "weeding from underneath" lemon balm and oregano
  • Replanting lemon balm and oregano
Homework:
  • Find out what family lemon balm and oregano belong to
    • the mint family
  • Find the latin name and common names for creeping charlie
    • glecoma hederacea
    • creeping charley
    • ground ivy
    • alehoof
    • catsfoot
    • field balm
    • run-away-robin
    • gill-over-the-ground
    • tunhoof
    • creeping jenny
    • hedgemaids