
November 11, 2024 | By Samantha Bellman
Butterfly pea flower (Clitoria ternatea) is a plant where the convergence of science and beauty meet. Butterfly pea is a subtropical plant ...

March 11, 2024 | By Maria Noël Groves
Quality, regular sleep forms the foundation of our health and wellbeing, but what do you do if you’re trying to prioritize bedtime yet can’t get ...

April 24, 2023 | By Beth Schreibman Gehring
From as early as I can remember, I have been completely smitten by the beauty and versatility of roses. As I have mentioned before, my father ...

June 21, 2021 | By Erin Holden
The world of natural and alternative medicine encompasses many modalities, and for the layperson, the different approaches and schools of ...

November 30, 2020
From the calming characteristics of lavender to the practice of pressing plants, our readers find all sorts of ways to add a bit of herbiness to ...

May 11, 2020 | By Maryann Readal
Seeing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of strings of what looked to be brown seeds hanging in stores around holy places in India made me extremely ...

September 18, 2017 | By Paris Wolfe
I have a serious collection of essential oils, but only recently learned of hydrosols – a versatile byproduct of distilling herb material into ...

February 8, 2017 | By Jackie Johnson
According to the groundhog, winter’s health challenges will be with us for a few more weeks. The following Herbal Hacks might help fight the ...

August 15, 2016 | By Paris Wolfe
I was ordering ciopinno – Italian fish stew --at Etna Restaurant in Cleveland’s Little Italy, while a young woman also sitting at the bar was ...

September 28, 2015 | By Paris Wolfe
In mid-August I was at a garage sale full of 1940s and 1950s household paraphernalia. Among the milky salt shakers, bakelite jewelry and vanity ...