Garden Community Project ABQ

06/21/2017

Your new neighbors could be Scotty Scott Chazdon Elissa Chazdon Amber Gibson Abuela Lujan Billie Lattanza and Ev Olve just to name a few... Please spread the word.

06/21/2017

06/11/2017

Hi friends, I think i told Abuela Lujanand Kerry Romero the potluck was tonight. I was wrong. Sorry. It's next week. Please forgive.

06/11/2017

The Master Peace Community Farm shows how it is using high tunnels to extend their growing season and harvest healthy fruits and vegetables nearly all year l...

06/11/2017

At a time when most Michigan farmers are getting their land ready for planting, students and others working at Michigan State Universitys Student Organic Far...

06/11/2017

Description of Basic Aquaponics System in Australia. Single grow bed media based systems.

06/09/2017

Elder flower harvest // Elder flowers have similar medicinal attributes to the fruit of elderberry. One way to use these creamy blooms is to prepare a tincture, which is a remedy for sinus congestion from allergies, sinus infections, head colds and the flu.

Elder flowers are also delicious, and we like adding the extract to fun summertime herbal cocktails—elder hibiscus fizz with raspberry rose syrup is a winner. For all of our favorite herbal recipes and medicinal wisdom, check out our Online programs:

Online Herbal Medicine Making Course (100 hours): www.chestnutherbs.com/medicine-making
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(Sambucus nigra var. canadensis. Adoxaceae).
Photo © Juliet Blankespoor

05/31/2017

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Passionflower is one of the most beloved nervine remedies in Western herbalism, finding its way into formulas for insomnia, menstrual cramps, headaches, skeletomuscular pain, stress, shingles, anxiety, and pain from injury.

Passionflower is helpful for insomnia with circular thinking, as when someone is lying in bed mulling over an unpleasant situation in his or her life or something he or she said that day, and just can’t let it go. To imprint this scenario and passionflower together in your mind, picture the circular quality of the flowers. Passionflower is beneficial for both sleep onset and sleep maintenance insomnia (when you wake in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep). I frequently combine it with valerian (Valeriana officinalis), skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), and, less commonly, hops (Humulus lupulus).

Passionflower is a notoriously fickle germinator, but I’ve had excellent success with the following protocol. First, you want to scarify the cleaned seed with sandpaper and then stratify for two to three months. The seeds germinate best with bottom heat, or they’ll simply bide their time until the soil is very warm. Passionflower is a sporadic germinator; the seeds won’t necessarily all come up at once. Don’t discard the seed trays after the initial flush of seedlings emerges. The seed germinates in one to four weeks, sometimes longer, at 70–80°F (21–26.7°C).

~ This is an excerpt from our Online Herbal Immersion, which features how to grow and use all of our most beloved garden medicinals and wild weeds. For details: www.chestnutherbs.com/immersion

Passionflower illustration by W. H. Fitch, 1839

05/30/2017

Did you know that tomatoes hate cucumbers? While they might taste great together in a salad, tomato plants actually dislike growing in close proximity to any member of the curcurbit family, which includes cucumbers. Tomatos love carrots …

05/27/2017

General Mills, Kellogg's, and Unilever own just about everything

05/27/2017

SHARING IS CARING!010010Housing Design For a Good Cause   When disaster strikes and leaves a large quantity of people in desperate need for the basics of survival – housing included – it’s important to have solutions at the ready. This simple DIY pallet house is a perfect example of where ingenuity…

05/27/2017

The most effective change-makers in our society aren’t waiting around for a new president to make their lives better, they’re planting seeds,...