Category: Plant Stories

Your Christmas Tree Is Medicine
When I was a kid, every year my family and I would go to a local farm to cut down our Christmas tree. It was always one of the most

How Invasives Help Us to Love Ourselves
It’s become a green wonderland here in the mountains. The basil is bunching out in the garden, weeding is now a daily activity, and last

The Plants are Holding You
We are in the full tilt of summer here and the trees around my house have filled in the cove surrounding me, turning my stilted home into a kind

Flower Essences for Boundaries
In a world of overstimulation and endless possibilities for connection, opportunity, and demands on our time, the concept of setting boundaries

Onion Grass the Plant Spirit Ally
I remember, very clearly, the day I first realized I could eat grass. Another neighborhood kid let me in on the secret. Apparently, there was a

Reishi: A Psychedelic of the Unseen
Joining the Unseen Though we pride ourselves in this country on what we can capture, quantify and see, it’s a simple fact that the vast

The Multitudinous Tulsi
Summer is the domain of the manifold. In spring, I find I can delight in every flower, the succession of blooms feels manageable,

Finding your Solar Power
Summertime is like a linen sheet left out on the line— highlighted, outlined and defined by the omnipresence of sunshine.

When Nettles Smoke
I saw the smoke out of the corner of my eye, like a cigarette, pitched low to the ground and still smoldering. I was out alone, sunning