Plant Stories Archives - One Willow Apothecaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I first moved to these mountains in spring. Early spring, when things are still raw with beginning. It felt fitting. I had left behind my entire

Every year is a cycle of living and dying, and every transition is medicine. In winter we approach that beauty of endings. As the cold

In winter we stir the embers. A motion of both caretaking and stoking, a gentle coaxing and potent remembering of that which lights our