The Gift of the Gathering ~ Spring

**If you haven’t already please read our post on our new project Here. **All proceeds in June will go to Ruchika Train Platform School in India, run by Inderjit Khurana.  The school offers food and education to the many orphan and underprivilaged children that live near the train tracks in Bhunbaneswar, Orissa, India. There is [...]

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Introducing ~ The Gift of the Gathering

It has now been long over a year since we have been meeting.  Our time together began last year as apprentices with Suzanne at Cedar Mountain Herb School.  We met every Tuesday and forayed out into the wilderness and connected with plants, harvested roots, got our hands dirty and revelled in each others companionship.  But August [...]

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Yes We Can

Every tree, every growing thing says: You harvest what you sow. With life, as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. A rose opens because she is the fragrance that she loves. -Poem by Rumi -Painting by Mimi Irish

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Universal Guidelines for Herbal Medicine Collection

Imagine you are downsizing a 9,000 sq ft home; a home you have lived in for decades and that has had space for every imaginable souvenir or sentimental favor. Who would you think of when you come across the shockingly extensive and rare collection of Advanced Chinese Medical Texts that you picked up when traveling [...]

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