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March 2023
Homemade Herbal Haircare (On A Budget!)
Ayurvedic hair oil recipes with ghee and black seed oil. DIY alternatives to high end, off the shelf, hot oil products.
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Healing With Perfume
Fragrance & the Apothecary - A trip down the rabbit hole of perfumania. Discussing the ancient art of attars, recovering from "smell blindness," and an…
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February 2023
January 2023
DIY Flower Essences Course: Part Three
Potentization - Bottling, storing & dispensing vibrational remedies
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Lichen Hunting
On slow medicine & looking for the Gilloe Duh. Drifting into the realm of lichen medicine. How to identify and prepare usnea, and retelling the tale of…
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In Praise of Witching Week & Being Idle
How I spent Witching Week, (the period between Christmas and New Year that nobody knows what to do with,) and defending the right to be lazy…
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December 2022
When the Plants Tell the Tales
The Story of Milk Witch & the Fir Tree
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November 2022
The Oldest & Strangest Trees in the World
Stories from past and future libraries
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How To Make A Mushroom Tincture
The double extraction method explained. For thousands of years, people got along perfectly well using only basic equipment to make powerful & effective…
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Coastal Foraging in Autumn
Gathering medicines from around the coastline makes for a very enjoyable afternoon out. Join me as I harvest golden samphire, bladderwrack and other…
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October 2022
Walking & The Overview Effect
Natural Solutions for Anxiety
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