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
  

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
  

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