Grow Your Own Pharmacy

Explore the ginkgo, a 400-million-year-old survivor with brain-related associations and vitamin C-rich leaves, and learn how Hiroshima's epicenter trees symbolize its survival and spiritual significance.

Discover how birch serves as a medicinal herb in home pharmacy. Learn about birch leaves for the kidneys, fresh brews, sauna use, and silver birch massage oil.

Grow your own medicine with willow, a plant that roots easily and even forms a rooting compound, while its aspirin source provides anti-inflammatory, pain relief.

Explore how a sacred oak planted from an acorn by our daughter ties family walks in our Hundred Acre Woods, and medicinal uses from receding gums to community health.

Discover how hawthorn supports heart health with berries, leaves, and blossoms used as a heart remedy; the tree grows easily, is widely available, and can be harvested at home.

Explore witch hazel, a healing herb and astringent that tones facial skin and fine tissue, useful for hemorrhoids and overall skin care.

Explore arnica through Stein Valley gatherings, learn its garden cultivation, and discover how carrying a vial on a key chain can aid in shock.

Discover sweet basil's versatility as a delicious herb and immune stimulant, with a focus on holy basil's hardy, long-lasting qualities and its sacred role in India.

Grow your own blueberries to harvest prolific fruit, while leaves and berries support eye health and preventative benefits.

Grow borage in your garden to enjoy blue flowers you can pluck for ice cubes, salads, and punches. Drink its tea daily to support health, while bees love the blooms.

Discover calendula's powerful anti-inflammatory properties for skin, with tips on topical use, and learn garden strategies to contain its spread and grow year-round in Victoria.

Explore catnip’s potent relief for headaches and its garden challenges with cats, then learn celandine as a gallbladder herb used homeopathically, plus celery seed for gout.

Grow your own pharmacy by harvesting camomile blossoms for tinctures and cultivating chaste tree, comfrey, and echinacea in sunny, sandy soil. Explore how chaste tree supports the female endocrine system and pituitary, note comfrey's medicinal uses and safety considerations, and use fresh roots for tinctures.

Grow and use elecampane, feverfew, gotu kola, and violet to support brain health and memory, with anti-inflammatory benefits and Johnny jump ups for salads.

Explore lavender's headache relief, relaxation, and balancing aroma; lemon balm offers uplifting antidepressant effects; milk thistle helps counteract Amanita poisoning, with garden growing tips.

Explore mint, mugwort, raspberry, rosemary, and sage as medicinal herbs, covering digestive support, dream pillows, antiseptic use, and antimicrobial properties.

Grow your own plantain as a first aid herb for stings and bites; chew and apply leaves to neutralize venom and reduce swelling, and Plantago is edible.

Explore stinging nettles as a versatile food source, learn how to harvest and integrate them into omelettes and stir-fries, and note their use for arthritic and rheumatic pains.

Explore sweet grass and its use in smudging and healing, including cleansing energy with herbs like sage and sweetening the field, while acknowledging the emotional weight of healing.

Grow your own pharmacy shows how to infuse St. John's wort in sun up to 60 days to make an antidepressant, and discusses strawberry leaf tea, valerian nervine, and vervain.

Grow your own pharmacy shows how to cultivate fresh wasabi and herbs like angelica (don kwai) and fo-ti at home, exploring quality levels, garden growing, and tonic uses.

Learn to grow your own red clover for quality and timely harvest, and explore basil and other herbs for mosquito bites, while planning a 20-herb garden.