[Valarie]

It must be wonderful to make and use your salves. I love that the first recipe includes oregano. I will soon venture into salve making. Please share any advice or something that you have learned along the way – it will be greatly appreciated. All the best.

[Valarie]

Hello,

It sounds like you are sitting in paradise surrounded by all of those beautiful plants. Enjoy, it must be truly amazing.

Val

[Valarie]

Hello Marilyn,

It is lovely to read your posts! Foraging for herbs has been a lifelong passion of mine. I’ve always enjoyed exploring the local forests here in Victoria, BC, discovering wild edibles like fiddleheads. We even have a little “herb hill” at home, brimming with mullein, various peppermints (including peppermint licorice), oregano, yarrow, sage, and chamomile. I’m already planning which new herbs to add this spring!

This course has also spurred me on to find a reliable source of plantain, which I’m very excited about. It truly is a fantastic journey of discovery, and it’s wonderful to be learning alongside insightful classmates like you. Thanks for your informative posts!

Val

[Valarie]

Hi Marilyn, Thank you for sharing your recipes. It is very kind of you to be so thoughtful. I have been using herbs for years and have never made ointment. The various green colours are beautiful. Your post has truly inspired me! Have a great rest of your day.

Val

[Valarie]

Hello Katerina,

Thank you for providing those thoughtful and helpful links to businesses specializing in herbal combinations and blends. This information is particularly valuable for those who may not have the resources or ability to prepare their own tinctures or other remedies after completion of the assessment and plan of care.

I’m not aware of any such company in Canada and will look and see what I can find to share with my fellow Canadians.

Cheers and have a lovely evening .

Val

[Valarie]

Hi Amanda, it’s nice to meet you. I hope that are paths cross again soon. All the best, Val

[Valarie]

Hello Carolina,

It is very nice to meet you?

Are you enjoying the course?

I think the learning material is fantastic and interesting.

All the best and I hope that are paths cross soon again.

Val

[Valarie]

It’s so nice to meet you. Wow that is a great question. One of the first flowers that I remember are roses and their beautiful smell. The poppy is also one I recall. My Gram used the poppies for baking traditional Ukrainian sweets. Another, plant I that recall was mustard and it’s pretty yellow flowers. One year I had a terrible cough and I had a couple of mustard packs to improve my breathing. We had a little orchard with mostly plums and apples. We kept bees in the orchard and later moved them to grow them in the flax field, although flax is a self pollinator the bees are is healthy for the flax plant and the honey tastes amazing. We also had buckwheat honey at one . We grew up as participants on the farm and in the garden. I fondly remember picking flowers for the house. We used as much of the plant as possible even dandilions. Nothing went to waste.

I’d love to hear some of your early memories of plants and flowers?

Thank you for your kind welcome.

Val