by Spiraea Herbs | Apr 13, 2016 | Cold and Flu, Detoxification, Digestive Health, DIY Herbal, Emotional Health, Garden, Herbal Basics, Herbalism, Homesteading, Materia Medica, Natural Health
Spring is in the air! Although, I type this as I watch a flurry of snow fall from the sky… again. But alas, I know spring is around the corner and it’s time to get planning our gardens. IN a perfect world I would grow every herb in my materia medica, but...
by Spiraea Herbs | Apr 8, 2016 | Digestive Health, DIY Herbal, Emotional Health, Herbal Basics, Herbalism, Natural Health
Herbal infusions are just another way that herbalists and herb enthusiasts can incorporate the healing power of plants into their lives. This healing ability lies in the complex variety of chemical constituents that each herb has. Herbal infusions draw out...
by Spiraea Herbs | Mar 22, 2016 | Digestive Health, Emotional Health, Herbalism, Materia Medica, Natural Health
What comes to mind when you think of lavender? The “scent” of lavender can be found in everything from dish soap to dryer sheets. But this is not true lavender my friends! And most of the products on the market today don’t even smell like actual...
by Spiraea Herbs | Feb 16, 2016 | Emotional Health, Natural Health
Yes they are. Some days are just hard. Fraking hard. I’m just fresh off a meltdown (both me and the kid) so I might not even post this once I’ve calmed down and reread the words. I’ve never written about this or talked about this. Not once. As I...
by Spiraea Herbs | Jan 19, 2016 | Cold and Flu, Digestive Health, Emotional Health, Natural Health, Seasonal Affective Disorder
Oh will this grey weather ever end?! It’s not uncommon for southern Ontario to be grey in the fall and winter, but I swear I haven’t seen the sun in weeks! Since our brain needs sunlight to create serotonin this is putting a grey little cloud on my mood...
by Spiraea Herbs | Aug 19, 2015 | Bach Flowers, Emotional Health, Herbalism, Natural Health
As many of you know in a little over a month my family will be moving to a new town, a new home and a new way of life! We are leaving the suburbs of Oshawa and having a go at semi-rural homesteading life in a little bungalow on a 1/2 acre lot. Although we are...
