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These days there is a lot of talk about heart health.  It is the number one killer of men and women.  There is tons of information out there on the top healthy foods for a healthy heart, but I want to dive into the emotional side of it.    You can eat all the organic healthy, holistic, awesome food out there, take the best herbal tonics, exercise regularly  and still have heart problems if you are not taking care of the emotional side of your heart.   Not only can you build walls in your arteries from a bad diet, but you can also build walls in your heart due to the negative emotions, fears, loss, sadness, ego, anger, that you do not process or let go of.     There is only so much your heart can take before it implodes or hardens and stops.  

So, here I will begin with my story of understanding I was Hopelessly Holding On.... 

Humans hold onto way to much.  To much storage of physical things and emotional things.. 

I have been concerned with heart health.  You can do all the right things with your health, like eat organic healthy food, finding out your food allergies, exercise, etc. 

But, if we don't laugh enough, get stuck in the fast pace of life, a life that does not feel like it  completes you, a stressful job, no community and holding on to the past,  this will  clog and malfunction your heart.     These negative emotions, will give you a traffic jam in your system. Broken Hearts, (either physically broken,emotionally or both) are the number one killer for humans.  

They say that you heart is your brain  and that 40,000 sensory neurons  relay information to the brain from the heart.   The heart connects to your nervous system,  it produces hormones and it receives energetic information from strong electrical and electromagnetic fields. 

The heart is a muscle and if it is not worked on it will become weak.  It provides the body with nourishment and oxygen.  If you are not being emotionally nourished it would be hard for your heart to produce it's breath of life (oxygen) to feed all the other organs of the body.  Therefore you get stagnation and stagnation brings pollution and pollution brings disease.  

Dis Eases of life.  

Your heart carries away waste, but if it is clogged with negative emotions and holding on to what will never be, how can it carry the waste away?  If your system is short circulating due to this process, where will this waste end up?  Holding on to waste is toxic and it can effect you physically and mentally.

The heart consists of chambers, arteries and more, which to me represents the paths that you have walked in your life and where you have lived.   And from the paths, if there was stress, hurt, anger, jealousy and unforgiving, these negative hurtful times are the brick and mortar of the cement walls that are being built in your arteries.   And for some, this process started at a very early age, literally ones heart is bursting from the overload of heartache 

There are two chambers, one chamber of your heart gives and one  receives.  

If the giving and receiving in life are off balance this can negatively effect your chambers and fill them up with waste.  If you give too much, because you do not set boundaries and people keep coming and taking from you, this negatively fills you up with emotional waste.The other side of this, is you do not give enough to community at large, family or friends and this leads to sour heart becoming tight and stiff (remember the story of the Grinch).  

Your receiving chamber of your heart, do you receive giving from others well?  Or do you expect it, Has your receiving made you a taker?  Hoarding and taking to much,  builds walls within this same system... 

As you can see with two chambers it is much like a yin yang symbol. It really is all about balance. 

Holding onto happy memories that are  dear to ones heart feels good, but if you hold on to them hoping you can have it back again, then this is not good for ones heart.  Which means you are  building cement walls within the tiny paths within the chambers of your life, a hardening of the arteries, stagnation and shut down in the system.   

Holding on to negativity eats your heart out like acid...  Acid Relfux, heart palpitation, insomnia, anxiety and stress induced asthma, 

I wish I could deny the fact that I have had serious turmoil in my life.  No glass slippers here.  It has been ongoing since I was a child.   My heart is stacked full.   I believe my heart has been speaking to me and I am glad I am listening.   Most people would either ignore it or medicate it.  Ignoring builds more walls and medicating it adds more toxic waste.  

It wasn't until I hit my two year anniversary from the bad accident, that  I had  been hit with some serious emotions from the past.    There was a couple of times that some serous quietness, deep thinking and depression had hit me for a couple of days in a row.  During these times I was seriously in my head, which really meant I was trying to break down the walls that have been built in my heart for to many years.  

I have been known to be a person who does not cry and if I do I stomp it out quick, I am full of fire, stubborn.   Being very connected to the earth, I find that at this age, I get even more angry towards,farmers, the city, the  county, with their chemical applications that they toxify the earth with.   I am also past the middle of my menopausal journey.. This means, I am going through a journey of my past, present and who I am going to become..  It is a bit painful at times but this process is important.  Just as important as a butterfly hatching out of its cocoon.  You can't help it otherwise it will be deformed.  Menopause is just the same, it is a process that can be hard, painful and joyous all at the same time.   I feel blessed to be on this journey and especially blessed that I am listening..  For the men out there, you also go through a process it is called Male Menopause.  Some might call it mid life crisis 

It was December 21st 2015, Winter Solstice, seven days from my TWO year anniversary date of my accident.   I was dealing with a lot of emotions.  I was feeling dragged down by all the things that have been left undone, physically and mentally in my life.  I already had  big list of to do's, prior to my accident.  The list is now bulging and I am feeling overwhelmed and trying to find a starting spot to continue the journey.

 When your activity has been reduced to a minimum and you have so little help with things, life just feels overwhelming.    Starting points seem unclear but you have piles and piles in front of you.  

On Winter Solstice, something was stirring in me.  My husband and I headed up the mountain with our animal family, tea pot, candle and smudge stick.  It was beautiful and quite.  We talked of changes, heart aches from our past, enjoyed a cup of tea, had prayers and mediation time.

That night I had something come to me that spoke so strongly that it stuck in my head.  The message was this "LET GO OF WHAT DOES NOT SERVE YOU"   It was if I had a revelation of some sort.   A few days later, I am headed up the mountain to the spot that I had my accident.  I was going to sit there and have tea and work on letting go.    As my husband and I were walking the horses up the mountain they  made a turn down another road.    This never happens on this road.  I usually have to lead them down.   My husband asked me what I wanted to do, at that point they ran.   At first I got tense, but then a few seconds after I realized my message was happening right in front of my eyes.  "LET GO OF WHAT DOES NOT SERVE YOU"   It was time to finally let go of what happened to me, not only from the accident but from everything that has been backed up, clogged up in my heart center.  This means a purging process has begun and that I need to make sure it does not get damned back up.  

I know most people were looking for a blog from my husband about our New Year.  They were probably expecting a funny story about his wife (me) and our empty nester experiences.  But our New Year experience has been about purging. We have been taking dump loads of stuff from our past or things that are just not going to get done, to the dump.    Believe it or not some of these things have been holding me back without me realizing it. Storage is nothing but a place to store things that do not serve you.  Some of those things you hold on to tightly hoping to feel that feeling again... These things effect your heart,  your center and they take you off balance.

As I am purging I am getting things done, as I purge it is opening up opportunity's in my life to heal and have new experiences.

Today January 8th 2015 marks another step.  We had a old dodge van.. She just left to live the rest of her life to be scrapped out and become something new again.   As the man was loading her up. I kept having to hold back tears.  I thought how funny that would be if this strong woman started crying as the man was towing away a rusty old metal dodge van.  I held strong, took a few pictures, helped him out of the drive way and cried as he drove away.     

 I am going from a Mom that was needed, to a Mom that is finding herself as her kids find out who they are because they have spread their wings in the flight called life.  

That beast of a van held so many fun memories when we were a family of 8..    Memories that I cherished and loved.  It was a time of me being mommy and step mom.  I loved being a mom ( I am still mom)  Kids laughing in the back seat, singing, sleeping, being grumpy, being excited, fourth of July fun on the beach and so much more.  I can still here the kids singing we will rock you in the van.   I can still hear my son Brandon laughing in the back seat and years later on my birthday I sat in back as he drove us home from the beach.  

Having a mixed family was not easy and this is what I have held on to.  Hoping for the good memories to come back. This has built up in my heart and letting this beast of a van go is the last purge of the past.  

The "Time Of The Van", there were life changes, people changes, people come and go and we all had to to except that without it affecting our hearts.   

Holding on to that which is not...

To much hope and change, without change becomes stagnation and no growth

Holding on to happy memories is what  also creates holding onto  to much hoping to create that situation again

You never know until you finally release something that holding on was holding you back

Yes, there is such a thing as hope but one must realize that holding hope for too long can hold you back

Release breaks up stagnation

Release is what brings in the new

You can't fix what has been lost

Let Go Of What Does Not Serve You

What serves your heart? 

This is my year of new,  It is my new birth year, a new year to birth out new ides, more happiness, more nature, more epic adventure out in the Oregon Wild, success, community, knowledge, love, peace and for me it is the year  to 'LET GO OF WHAT DOES NOT SERVE ME)

Besides a fantastic diet, herbs  and exercise this is what will heal my heart and yours.   For the heart is the brain and this brain controls the functions of you... 

If you don't take care of  your body,

where are you going to live?

Mickey Spillane

What Is Good Heart Medicine?

21 Principles That Keep Your Heart Happy and Healthy

1. Put your emotional life in balance

2. Keep it  corny, laugh and play frequently

3.  Make life juicy, not dry

4.  Peel the extra layers of heaviness off of your life

5.  Size matters, eat many small healthy meals a day

6.  Reject violence with your whole heart, but if violence is used on you, fight back with your whole heart

7.  Practice daily acts of kindness towards yourself and others

8.  Keep it cool in life

9.  Shake it up,  dance more

10. Perfect you smile, use it more

11.  Light you fire, kindle the flame inside you, what are your desires?

12.  Rest your head, nap when you can, cat nap when you can, go to bed early, winter time get more sleep

13.  Ease back on stimulants and addictive substances (if you can’t fall asleep at night by 20 to 30 minutes you could             be drinking to much coffee,  eating to much sugar or having to much screen time) 

14.  Remember a negative environment breeds illness.   Positive grows  happiness

15.  Exercise, this is a must

16.  Eat simple, delicious, unadulterated foods and liquids

17.  Eat organic berries

18.  Eat good clean sources of protein

19.  Summer lovin,  get your daily dose of sun, as much as you can

20.  Make bone broth

21.  Include the cardiovascular nurturing herbs in your daily diet

Hawthorn flower, leaf and berry– Cardiovascular tonic -Motherwort—Calms the heart, reducing heart palpitations—Ginkgo– peripheral vasodilator( Peripheral vasodilators are agents which act on the most distal parts of the vascular system i.e. the arterioles and venules. They dilate these distal blood vessels and lower the blood pressure, therefore makes it easier for the heart to pump blood through these peripheral blood vessels).—Passionflower– calms—Yarrow– vascular tonic—Garlic normalizes blood pressure -Cayenne and Ginger—circulatory stimulants

Recipes For Heart Health

Hawthorn Leaf, Flower and Berries

Grandmother Hawthorn, the tree of the heart. Hawthorn is the 6th tree of the Celtic Tree Ogham, representing Love, fertility, protection, the release of blocked energy and preparation for spiritual growth.

Hawthorn is the prime remedy for the heart, the circulation and is safe to take over long periods,  The flowers, leaves and berries can all be used as a safe heart tonic,  Hawthorn is helpful for high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, heart palpitations and all heart conditions. The leaves, flower and berries also have a beneficial effect on the nervous system, relieving stress and anxiety They bring calm sleep if drunk at night.

Hawthorn Recipes: 

http://natural-healing-guide.com/Therapeutic-Teas/Hawthorn-tea.htm

Linden Leaf and Flower Tea, relieves nervous tension, calms the mind, could help with insomnia, soothes the digestive system and is a great heart tonic

2 tsp. linden leaf and flower

1/2 tsp. rose petals or a couple of rose buds (organic only)  

Bring a cup of water to boil, add herbs, cover and steep 10 minutes, strain and enjoy. 

I personally make 4 cups at a time in a french press and steep it longer.   I also make linden leaf and flower infusions.   For more information on herbal infusion click on link below. 

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/September08/anti-cancer.htm

Kale and Nut Pesto

Small bunch of kale (4-6 leaves, remove the thick part of the stems*)

1/4 cup walnuts, toasted or soaked dehydrated almonds or  soaked and dehydrated pumpkin seeds.

1/2 to 1 clove of garlic

1/4 cup olive oil (or more for a smoother pesto)

Juice & zest of one lemon

Salt & pepper to taste

Optional: grated raw cheese, or organic Parmesan 

Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Fill a large bowl with ice and water.
2. Blanch kale for about 30 seconds, remove and place in the ice bath to stop the cooking process.
3. Dry the kale a bit, squeeze out some of excess water and set on a towel for a few minutes more.
4. Blend everything together in a food processor. Pulse to create a chunky pesto, blend longer to create a smoother one. Taste and adjust, adding more salt, pepper, lemon, olive oil, as necessary.

High Vitamin C Tea

Ingredients:  rose hips, hibiscus flowers, lemon grass, cinnamon chips

Note:  Vitamin C is a noted antioxidant with disease-fighting abilities.  

Rose Hips:  They contain more vitamin C than almost any other herb, many times the amount found in citrus fruit when measured gram by gram.  

Hibiscus:  high in vitamin C and bioflavonoids.  It has slightly astringent properties.  It is useful for treating mild colds, flus, bruising, and swelling. 

Lemon Grass:  http://planetwell.com/lemongrass-health-benefits-and-healing-proper...

Cinnamon:  Although cinnamon is considered to be simply a spice by most Westerners, herbalists have been using it for centuries as a warming digestive aid.  It is a wonderful mild stimulant and can be combined with ginger to treat circulatory and digestive problems.  It has antiviral and antiseptic activities, making it useful for fighting infections.  

High Vitamin C Tea Recipe: 

4 parts rose hips

3 parts hibiscus

2 parts lemongrass

1 part cinnamon chips 

Information on beef heart:  

Beef heart is a muscle like other cuts of steak, but more dense with a higher content and additional protein. Beef heart contains all essential amino acids, zinc, selenium and phosphorus. It has more than double the elastin and collagen than other cuts of meat and a highly concentrated source of coenzyme Q10, also known as CoQ10.  Make sure you purchase organic grass-fed beef rather than grain-fed beef because it may have higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids.

Below is the link to the information about how to cook the beef heart: 

http://ruhlman.com/2011/08/how-to-cook-beef-heart/

Cottonwood

Common Names:  Black Poplar (Populus nigra) Balm of Gilead (Commiphora opobalsamum) Balsam tree,

Description:  Belongs to the Salicaceae family.  There are 10 species that grow across North America..  Populus biasamifera, p. candicans, p angustifolia, p deltoids and p trichocarpa.   All of these trees have medicinal value.  They are fast growing and have short lives.   When a tree falls or is cut down, it will vigorously re-sprout.   It is a large deciduous tree with spreading branches that arch downwards and brown, later grayish-black, deeply furrowed bark (alligator skin), up to 65 feet tall in height.  The Lombardy poplar (var. italic of this species) may reach 130 feet. The leaves are deciduous, rhomboidal or triangular (personally they remind me of hearts).  The reddish-brown buds are long, sticky and curve upwards at the tip.   Black poplar with orange male and red female flowers  catkins that open early in spring before the leaves appear.   Although, some trees there leaves come out first.   The fruits are small capsules, containing seeds covered with cottony hairs which aid their dissemination by the wind.    You find cottonwoods near wet lands, side of streams and rivers.  They love water.   They are a fast growing tree and is often planted as a screen beside roads and industrial buildings.    The buds are covered by a hard shell for protection during the winter.   This shell is covered with a sticky resinous substance which is very fragrant.   The resin is collected by the bees to make propolis.   Propolis is a sticky substance that bees use to seal their hives and protect it from invaders.  The cottonwood is in the same family as willow.  

Parts Used: Bud, leaf, bark,

Medical Properties:   The buds and bark are used .  Sometimes the leaves.   Cottonwood resin is cooling and drying.  The major constituent of the resin is a group of aspirin-like compounds, or salicylates, that relieve pain and inflammation (inflammation of all kinds).  Antiseptic, expectorant, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, antibacterial, stimulant, pectoral, analgesic and anodyne, anti-galactagogue, antipyretic, cholagogue, antioxidant and tonic 

Analgesic - herbs that relieve pain

Anodyne - Herbs that reduce pain by reducing sensitivity of the nerves

Antibacterial - Active against bacteria 

Antigalactagogue - decrease the production of milk secretion of nursing moms

Anti-inflammatory - herbs which help the body fight inflammation

Antioxidant - herbs that render free radicals harmless

Antipyretic - herbs that reduce fever

Anti-rheumatic - herbs that alleviate the symptoms of arthritis

Antispetic - inhibit growth of bacteria and prevent infection, cell decay and pus formation

Astringent - herbs that have a binding action on skin or mucous membranes that helps dry up mucous discharge, tone local blood vessels, stop bleeding

Cholagogue - herbs that stimulate the flow of bile

Diuretic - increase the flow or urine, used to treat water retention, lymphatic swellings... 

Expectorant - herbs that help the body to remove excess mucus 

Pectoral - herbs that strengthen the lungs

Stimulant - herbs that cause an increase in body functions

Tonic - herbs that strengthen and support the function of a specific organ or whole body 

History:  The genuine Balm of Gilead, highly esteemed by the ancient Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Greeks, and Romans was extracted from this small tree.  At one time the  sweet-scented resin was so highly prized that guards watched over trees cultivated in the gardens near Cairo.   The herbs popular name is derived from the Greek balsamon, meaning a fragrant oil, while Gilead refers to its ancient cultivation on Mount Gilead in Israel.  There are biblical references to the Balm of Gilead in Genesis and Jeremiah, and the queen of Sheba is said to have presented a tree to Solomon as a gift.  The black poplar is dedicated to Proserpina and the white to Hercules.  The raw resin from this tree is thick, whitish and strongly perfumed.  It solidifies on exposure to the air but is soluble in alcohol,.  Balm of Gilead was valued for its scent and once used as a beauty aid by ladies of the royal courts.  True Balm of Gilead is scarce and supplies are likely to come from related north American trees, Populus candicans or P. balsamifera.  These members of the poplar family took the name of their biblical counterpart on account of the sticky, heavily scented resin that covers the young buds.

At one time the bruised buds were added to fresh butter which was then left in the sun to melt, and used by peasant women in China to give a sheen to their hair.  

Native American Uses:  The cottonwood tree was sacred to many Native Americans, particularly in the Southwest. The Apache tribes considered cottonwood trees a symbol of the sun, and some northern Mexican tribes associated cottonwoods with the afterlife, using cottonwood boughs in funeral rituals. Cottonwood roots were used for carving kachina dolls, masks, and other ceremonial objects by the Hopi, Pueblo, and Navajo tribes. The cottonwood was also viewed as a medicine tree in many Plains Indian tribes, with sacred poles and sun dance artifacts often being made from cottonwood trunks and branches. Cottonwood bark and leaves were also used as medicinal herbs by many different tribes, particularly to treat wounds and swelling.  The white poplar (similar properties to the black cottonwood)  has been used medicinally by American Indians for many centuries. 

Modern Day Herbalist Use:  Juice of the leafs is used to relieve pain of earache.  

Externally (ointment or liniment) for skin rashes, cuts, scalds, burns, boils and hemorrhoids. A liniment for helping to relieve pain, arthritis  and rheumatic joint (anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic), Use a tincture to clean cuts and wounds (antiseptic and antibacterial)

Internally:  Tincture/tea/decoction) for infections of the upper respiratory tract, sore throats,  fever reducer, laryngitis and bronchitis.   As an expectorant, meaning it helps the body to remove excess mucus.   Make a bitter tonic or  digestive aid (stimulates the flow of bile), diseases for the urinary tract (kidney and bladder) and gout (it reduces the amount of uric acid in  the blood).  As a diuretic, it can help with chronic kidney and bladder problems.   It makes your urine more acidic and has antibacterial and antiseptic properties.  

The resin, (the sticky substance in the buds) does not break down in water.  You must infuse them in oil or alcohol to use them medicinally.  

Preparations: The buds and bark are used.  Sometimes the leaves. Infused oil, tincture, liniment, digestive aid, poultice, decoction/tea

RECIPES

Infused Cottonwood Oil: 

Fresh Cottonwood buds

Organic oil of choice, apricot, jojoba, olive etc. 

Jar with lid

Cheese cloth 

Fill a jar about 1/3 full with the buds.  Add oil.  Cover with cheese clothe and then ring.   

Important:   If you decided to not use the cheese cloth and use the lid with the ring, please let the air out of the jar once a day.  Do not screw the lid on to tight, keep it lose.   My first year of infusing cottonwood buds, I lost a jar because it had to much pressure.    To my knowledge this only happens with cottonwood buds.  

Let sit by a wood stove or sunny window for 6 weeks

Strain, date and label 

Double Boiler Method and more information on infusing herbs in oil: 

http://www.motherearthliving.com/natural-beauty/infused-oils-salves-infusion-method.aspx

Balm Of Gilead Salve: 

8 oz cottonwood infused oil  strained 

1/4 cup bees wax or 2 oz 

Jars or stainless steel tins to pour your salve in

Labels

Wood spoon

Stainless steal ladle 

Double boiler 

Put oil in the top of the double boiler and add beeswax

GENTLY heat and melt bees wax

Ladle or pour into jars before it is cooled 

Cool and label

Infused Cottonwood Honey

Fresh cottonwood buds

Real raw honey,  local is best 

Double boiler, mason jar with lid, knife, spatula, labels

Fill jar about 1/3 full with the buds and cover with the honey.   Use your knife to push the honey down.  The buds need to be completely covered with the honey.  Once it is blended together now pour it into the top of your double boiler.  

GENTLY HEAT FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES.    You do not want to kill all the medicinal properties of the honey, by overheating it.

Now pour the mixture back into the original jar.  Label and let sit in a sunny window for about 4 weeks. 

Strain or leave the buds in 

Use this honey to sweeten your tea, or what ever you like to put honey on.    You could also use it as a first aid remedy.  Burns, cuts etc.  

Cottonwood Liniment

Fresh cottonwood buds and twigs 

Everclear ( I personally never use rubbing alcohol for my liniments, because it has petroleum in it) 

Mason jar with lid, labels 

Pull the buds off of the twigs and put them in the jar.

Next, remove the bark form the twigs (I use my pocket knife) 

Add the bark to the buds in the jar and fill it 1/2 full with this material

Pour the alcohol to fill the jar.  Put the lid on and shake.  

Label and Mark EXTERNAL USE ONLY 

Let sit for 4 to 6 weeks (plus), shaking daily.  It will be ready to use in 6 weeks.  The longer it sits the stronger it gets.  

Use then for muscle spasms, sprains, aches and pains.   You could also use it for a first aid remedy. 

Cottonwood Tincture

Fresh cottonwood buds

Vodka that comes in a glass bottle 

8 oz jar with lid, label

Add enough buds to fill the jar 2/3 full.  Pour vodka to the top of the jar and place the lid on 

Label

Shake Daily, give it some love 

Let sit for 4 weeks, strain 

Cottonwood Rooting Hormone Mixture: 

http://radicalbotany.com/2012/12/11/black-cottonwood-and-the-balm-of-gilead-populus-balsamifer-ssp-trichocarpa/

More on Cottonwood: 

https://wildlettucegal.wordpress.com/tag/cottonwood-tree-native-american-legends/

http://bearmedicineherbals.com/harvesting-medicine-making-with-cottonwood-bark.html

http://www.ryandrum.com/twobudsoneleaf.htm

https://feralbotanicals.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/harvesting-cottonwood-buds-for-medicine/

Sophia and I have been working on our class schedule... Here is a peak at what is coming up.. Tomorrow we will post more information. 
Saturday January 23 Kitchen Cold Care from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 
Sunday January 31st Exploring Natures Medicine Chest. Subject: Black Cottonwoods. This is an outdoor event. 
Wednesday February 3rd 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Nourishment for Enhancing Your Love and Passion Life. Your sexual vitality has to do with your health. Nourishing tonics, aphrodisiacs and love potions. Sophia and I will be Co-Teaching this class together.

 Wild and Weedy Herbal Wellness Box 

This is a great way to build your herbal medicine chest, stock your kitchen pantry with nourishment and become active in your health.  

A journey into the beauty, the benefit of herbs and a hike on an incredible trail to your health.  

Let us be your personal guide on your journey to wellness . 

Monthly wellness boxes will be either seasonal or have a theme.   Herbalism creates a deeper connection to healing for most people than other methods.  It provides nourishment to your body to prevent disease in the first place.

It is ideal for anyone who would like to use natural healing on a more regular basis, through nourishing their bodies, boosting their immune system and wants to become active in their journey to get healthy.  

The wellness boxes will help to build your herbal medicine chest. As we all know being prepared when illness and injury hit is half the battle.   You will  receive items that will help with your kitchen cookery. Becoming a better cook puts  you on the path of taking responsibility with your health and builds  your immune system.  All items are petroleum free products.  

You will receive 3- 5 items , handmade new products each month. Often times these ingredients will be wild crafted or grown on our farm.  

Items range from: pesto, elderberry syrups, tinctures, elixirs, powders, creams, salves, soaps,  fun teas, cold and flu products, infused oils, infused vinegar, body care products, medicinal teas, infused salts and more. 

You will learn more about new plants and herbal products

All products made with intention and love

from your local herbalist.  

 This is a commitment to learn about natural ways to boost your immune system and care for yourself. With the cost of health care on the rise, this truly is one of the best decisions you can make for you or your family's health.    

This is investment in your health 

March to May is a 3 month commitment to your health

Cost:  $180.00 

USPS Mail Shipments Add  $27. 00 for the full 3 months

June to November Is a 6 month commitment to your health

Cost $360.00 

USPS mail shipments add $54.00 for the full 6 months

Pick up is the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9:00 am - Noon

I am (Sue) working on a blog that talks about my recovery from my accident. On December 28th 2013 I was involved in a bad accident with my horse and it literally changed my life (and family). My life was changed in so many ways that I need to share my experience of what I did to stay on my healing path. Hoping I can encourage others and to be patient with what ails them. The struggles, the emotions, the depression, the healing, the positive, the good, the bad, the ugly. Even today I am still struggling with physical and emotional issues, but every day and week the healing is still taking place. This healing is due to using massive herbs, and only alternative medicine.

Let's start this year right!  

With health care at an all time high ($)  Isn't it time to think about your health needs?  

Let's get started! 

I believe knowledge is power, so make a cup of herbal tea and take some time to read these articles.  

Need some herbal teas?  Wild and Weedy Apothecary has a great selection and we can make you, your own special batch.  

It is time to get rid of these..... Toxic K Cups:

http://complete-health-and-happiness.com/k-cups-might-damage-metabolism-reproductive-health-cause-cancer/

Throw that Ibuprofen away... It is toxic.   How to make a healthier version: 

http://expand-your-consciousness.com/natural-ibuprofen-alternative-herbal-anti-inflammatory-capsules/

Misdiagnosing Fibromyalgia:  This is a great article for all of us.  If you have any tiredness, muscle soreness or lack energy then read this article 

http://theheartysoul.com/natural-treatment-for-fibromyalgia/?t=HHL

Stop feeding children goldfish crackers, toxic

http://fitlife.tv/do-me-a-favor-stop-feeding-goldfish-to-your-children/?t=HHL

Toxic Cell Phones: 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/01/06/cell-phone-use-brain-cancer-risk.aspx?x_cid=20151219_ranart_cell-phone-use-brain-cancer-risk_facebook-os-hhl

Gluten Free Pizza Crust: 

http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/gluten-free-pizza-crust.html