Ponderings & Wanderings
Wander with me through the green world — listening, learning, and finding connection in the small, rooted moments Nature offers.
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Tea Tool Tuesday #1 (opens the original)
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What is Tea Tool Tuesday?Welcome to a monthly exploration of the tools in my cupboard. Grab a cup of tea, pull up a chair, and I will happily share both the practical and fun tools I have collected over the years. Not only is this a sharing of my tea tools, but it’s a bit of an exploration of how things that look to be frivolous can also be practical, and how things that are practical can be whimsical, pretty and fun. Bringing a bit of joy, and spark a little something inside you.Silicone reusab
New Moon Notes | September 2026 (opens the original)
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Hi there friends!I’m back after a bit of a break over the summer. Somehow between an older teen in summer college classes, a husband teaching summer college classes, and so much to do on the herb farm, July in particular got away from me. And then it was somehow deep into August and it was all I could do to just get a couple of articles out to share (if you missed them, one was on apples and my personal connection to them, another was about
Embracing the in-between seasons (opens the original)
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Well hello there!How does this note find you? I find myself feeling a bit baked, wrung out, and dried up - like the grasses outside my office window and the soil that is holding them. 😂 I came into this recent full moon having just completed a busy, busy time over the past ~8 days.<div class="image2-ins
The Best Tincture I Ever Made (opens the original)
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This is the story of how Western Pasque Flower (Anemone occidentalis) helped me make the very best tincture I have ever made, and have not been able to quite replicate, from catnip.Its seed head looks like a certain Dr. Seuss plant, which is present for most of the season it is growing - it was a while before I even knew that wasn’t the flower, and what the flower actually looked like! I first encountered this plant in mid-summer on a field day during my year-long ethnobotany apprenticeship.We h
Apple's invitation towards Autumn (opens the original)
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This month’s plant in Plant Wonder Collective is apple. This selection had me doing a bit of pondering about what exactly it is I love about apples so much.I always enjoy looking to the plants as a way to mark the subtle shifts within the season. For apples, they are a seasonal marker for me during two seasons.Spring when the trees flower, marking the shift to consistent warmer weather in my areaLate Summer shifting into early Autumn, when the fruit ripensBetween blooms and fruit, apple trees ar
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