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Book Review: Homespun Seasonal Living: 12 Week Workbook
Do you feel disconnected from the world outside of your door? The parts with grass, trees, breezes, dirt, and well, life? The Homespun Seasonal Living Workbook was created to reconnect you to the patterns of Seasonal Living. Katie gives you 12 short, weekly lessons designed to help you get in touch with the seasons as they present…
Asheville Herb Festival 2014
This year was the 25th anniversary of the Asheville Herb Festival. I have attended every year but one since we moved to Asheville. It’s a great gathering of likeminded herb and sustainability-focused vendors and I always run into friends there, like my friend Celeste, and Ashley, Glenn & Huxley, and a few other dear ones who…
Eat your weeds and wildflowers
I have to ask you a favor….it isn’t a favor for me, specifically. It’s a favor for all of us…STOP USING PESTICIDES! Not all bugs are bad, and in fact, many are very beneficial to have around. We really need our bees and our wild pollinators! Butterflies and praying mantises, ladybugs and dragonflies, fireflies and luna…
Ask a Pixie: Seasonal Allergies and Remedies
Howdy, folks! I’ve been getting lots of reader questions and comments sent to my inbox, and so I’m beginning a new feature called “Ask A Pixie” where I will answer your queries anonymously as a blog post. Got a question? Now, bear in mind that I am an herbalist, but not licensed to offer medical…
The Beauty of Spring Equinox
Happy Spring Equinox! Today is the official first day of spring…the vernal equinox. That is the day in our year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth. I can see it happening…my own mama (Hey Mom! I love you!) took…
Local Business Love: West Asheville
Good day, folks! I recently spent a lovely day accomplishing wonderful things around West Asheville, like getting my ukulele restrung and tuned, eating Thunderstruck Coffee Porter ice cream in a Cinnamon Waffle Cone (I love you, The Hop!) and culminating in an herbal mead class at Asheville School of Holistic Herbalism. Yay, local business love!…
Ask A Pixie: #3 – Food Allergies
Howdy, folks! I’ve been getting lots of reader questions and comments sent to my inbox, and so I’m beginning a new feature called “Ask A Pixie” where I will answer your queries anonymously as a blog post. Got a question? Now, bear in mind that I am an herbalist, but not licensed to offer medical advice.…
A Poem from Heart-full Hands
My friend Jona is a poet, and a gentle soul. She is a fox, a giggling child, a serious mother, and a crone laughing at you from the corner of her eyes when you do something silly…and no matter how lost in the minutiae I become, she is always there to remind me to dream,…
Ask A Pixie: #1- Onions and Plantain
Howdy, folks! I’ve been getting lots of reader questions and comments sent to my inbox, and so I’m beginning a new feature called “Ask A Pixie” where I will answer your queries anonymously as a blog post. Got a question? Now, bear in mind that I am an herbalist, but not licensed to offer medical…
Pixie’s Pocket featured in Essential Herbal Magazine
I am thrilled to have an article in the Essential Herbal Magazine. In this March/April 2014 issue, you can see my article on Four Thieves Vinegar, and all of the ways to use it on yourself and around the house! Some of the other articles to look forward to in this issue include Spring Cleaning…
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