Read more from Dara in her forthcoming book The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest, available for pre-order this fall and released March 1, 2021 through the University of New Mexico Press.
Let’s have some fun and get our hands dirty outside and in the kitchen. With viral concerns lurking everywhere and most of us spending more of our lives at home, it’s a great time to make some incense that will improve the quality of our living space and purify our...
Pandemic Garden: Throughout history the role of gardens has been shaped by cultural viewpoints and conditions specific to the time. Extensive wild-spirited gardens helped ancient people to begin building sedentary societies, develop new lifestyles, improve nutrition,...
Perspective on COVID-19 Home Health Preparations: March 22, 2020 Strange times indeed…. Unless we remember that humans have been through similar situations before. In fact, we are the descendants of people who have survived terrifying outbreaks of the past...