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

I champion the weeds. When I started learning about herbal medicines — The world was vast. So many medicinal plants. Then I became aware that using plants Could use them up. Goldenseal and ginseng — Once available freely in my eastern woodlands — Are now threatened by overharvesting. .. From AgroForestry: "Overharvesting of goldenseal has caused serious reductions in populations. . . . In 1997, goldenseal was listed on Appendix II of the Convention for International Trade on