One approach to wildcrafting, is to include the wild herbs into your gardens.

There are many common wild medicinal plants (aka weeds) that look beautiful in gardens and offer us medicine.

By growing wild plants in your garden, you can ensure ethical wildcrafting practices, because you can wild harvest right in your garden!

Are you interested in foraging wild medicinal plants to make home remedies?

Connecting with common wild plants that live right outside your door will bring joy and health to your life.

It answers a deep ancestral calling, a remembering of ancient traditions. Since the dawn of humanity, we have been living in connection with plants for food, medicine, fiber, housing, and the air we breathe.

Before we forage wild herbs, there are some things that we need to know first so that we may honor and protect the plants that give us so much.

Pine is one of my favorite evergreens to work with. Eastern White Pine is the species of pine that grows in my region. What pines grow in your region? As far as I know, all wild pine trees are safe to work with, in reasonable amounts.

Essential oils are plant poisons that have been extracted, purified, and concentrated. This is the definition of a drug, similar to aspirin. Some essential oils are even adulterated with synthetic chemicals that are an exact match to the chemicals in the essential oils. They are labeled with the name of the plant they are extracted from, but very little of the whole plant in actually in that bottle. That marketing aspect alone, is very seductive and folks believe they have a natural and safe product.