Bilberry, Medicine and Eyesight: My own story

This blog started out as a a talk about Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus). Bilberry is in fact one of the very first herbs I ever used, even before I knew anything about medicine and herbalism. The Herb and Start of my Connection to it Now I am finding that it is

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Sweater Weather … eventually. An Iced herbal cider recipe.

the glass changes seasons while you hold it. You pour cold, bright, herb-infused cider over elder flower ice cubes. The first sip is summer — crisp apple, lemony, a little green. Then the cubes start melting and that muscat-floral elder flower creeps in, and by the bottom of the glass

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Everything in its right place.

March 2024, around 430 am, Taos NM. The car heater hadn’t caught up with the pre-dawn chill of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as I headed out for one of my clinical rotations in nursing school. Exhausted, I ran through my daily list of what papers needed to be written,

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The Most Important Thing To Know is What To Do.

Sam founded the school in 2007 in San Antonio. Then we expanded to New Mexico, and now include Texas, S. California, Colorado, and Utah as states we offer on-site trainings in. From the first herb walk for students eager to learn about plants up through online courses we do for

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Why we left Taos (and where we’re going)

We have some really big news to share with all those who have followed us from the beginnings of our school as The Human Path and where it has grown over the last 19+ years into Herbal Medics. This month marks the start of some new changes and expansion that

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