by Anna-Marija Helt | Jan 27, 2021 | Herb Notes
Originally published in Plant Healer Quarterly Endophytes are little critters that live either inside of or squished in between plant cells, and they’re a reminder that no organism, whether plant, person or platypus, is an individual. Rather, we’re communities of our...
by Anna-Marija Helt | Jan 4, 2021 | Herb Notes
Originally published in Plant Healer Quarterly “Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em. And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum. And the great fleas, themselves, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still,...
by Anna-Marija Helt | Nov 12, 2020 | Herb Notes
Baneberry – a white variant of our normally red berried species (Actea rubra) An interview for the wonderful Kelly Moody’s podcast.Check out her site for a whole bunch of great episodes on stuff plant related and more!...
by Anna-Marija Helt | Nov 9, 2020 | Herb Notes
Artist’s Conk / Ganoderma applanatum Any of you who’ve stuck your nose up to a mushroom know that they are aromatic. Even if they just smell like “mushroom”, which, by the way, is largely due to the chemical octanol and its relatives. Some mushrooms smell...
by Anna-Marija Helt | Aug 19, 2020 | Herb Notes
I seem to do a lot of videos on respiratory support. So if you’ve missed the prior ones, here’s one for all you folks in wildfire country….https://youtu.be/g_Sw1M3KjVo
by Anna-Marija Helt | Aug 1, 2020 | Herb Notes
Went looking for mushrooms today. Found nothing but a few Corts : ( But I did find a lovely patch of Monkshood (Aconitum columbianum), one of my favorite wildflowers (for just looking at!) around here. Monkshood contains alkaloids such as aconitine, mesaconitine, and...
