I rotate through five nourishing herbal infusions: * Stinging nettle (check out The Nettle Conference here: https://www.wisewomanschool.com/p/nettle-conference ) Comfrey leaf (The Comfrey Conference is here: https://www.wisewomanschool.com/p/the-comfrey-conference ) * Linden flowers (The Lubricating Linden Conference is here: https://www.wisewomanschool.com/p/soothing-linden-conference ) * Red clover blossoms (The Red Clover Conference: https://www.wisewomanschool.com/p/

On my way to writing this morning, I was swept away on a plant adventure. My neighbor Theresa invited me into her garden And asked if I wanted some plants. Yes! Now I have to plant a bucketful of lungwort (Pulmlnaria) With its lovely spotted leaves. Now I have to plant some catmint, Not catnip. But still a mint. Now I have to plant the foxgloves Which are wilded in her garden. I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get foxgloves to inhabit my garden. Hopefully this will take. Now I h

While I was harvesting violets For my salad, I noticed my mind. As usual, my mind was busy. Thinking, planning, remembering. Things it does very well. And has done ever since I started noticing My mind in meditation. Picking violets, And putting them in my basket, Joy came to me. Riding through my thoughts And stopping them. The sun warmed our shady spot Under the tree, As I gathered violets. And joy filled me Like a precious memory. "No need to plan," Joy declared. "Joy with

The Nourishing Nettle Conference starts today. My family arrived home from their winter in Costa Rica yesterday. It looks like my young goat Ashay may give birth this week. I want to plant seeds. The plants that overwintered in the house want to come outside. Now! I need to move compost. There's so much chickweed to harvest. What shall I do with it all? Right now there's two pounds — no joke — in my fridge. Garlic mustard to pull up. Roots for vinegar. Leaves to cook. Started