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Sometimes I don’t feel cute. Sometimes the farm

Sometimes I don’t feel cute. Sometimes the farm isn’t cute. We’re not supposed to be cute all the time. We planted this row of foxgloves maybe like a year ago, a whole year, they didn’t flower last year, but they looked good! Healthy! Throughout winter they looked great! Then about three weeks ago, they just died. Almost all of them. Now they are just light brown and dark brown mops of leaves. Oh well. It was nice to tend to the plants for the year, I’m sorry we won’t be swimming in a sea of foxglove flowers this spring, but the plants have taught me many things. And other things are cute.

Just a friendly reminder that our sale goes until

Just a friendly reminder that our sale goes until THURSDAY, $4 off all tinctures with the code: WELCOMESPRING. Also, check out the bulk dried herbs on there because some of them have reduced prices, think of all the tea you could be blending. Most herbs are grown here on our farm, using organic practices and boy are they fresh!l and beautiful! #herbfarm #cuttingroot

Herb of the Month Club is back in April! Sign up b

Herb of the Month Club is back in April! Sign up before April 1 for a care package and recorded 2 hour class about nettle. Your care package has all the supplies to make your own nettle infusions and medicines! Nettle is one of my favorite herbs and foods, it supports our entire body system with its nutrients, it feeds our adrenals, it supports our immune system, it is delicious AND it is a common weed and so easy to grow! I bet you have some nettle close to where you live that you could start connecting with! Learn more with this new offering from @cuttingroot #herbfarm #nettle #adrenalsupport #cuttingroot

Plant Sale is live on our website! Over 50 differe

Plant Sale is live on our website! Over 50 different kinds of herbs and flowers available for preorder! 6 packs! Three inch pots! Half gallon pots! So many different sizes, so many varieties of plants, so many different flowers. Enjoy perusing our list and get your orders in! We will update our inventory as some of our plants have a limited stock. Thank you everyone for your patience as we had a bit of a hiccup with our online form ordering system when we rolled out the sale but we think it is all fixed! #fingerscrossed #plantsale #herbfarm #flowerfarm #cuttingroot

Wild Weed Walk Wednesdays in April is my favorite

Wild Weed Walk Wednesdays in April is my favorite time of the year! Spring ephemerals, spring greens, spring songs! I’m here for all of it. Sign up on our website, the classes will fill up quickly because space is limited- plant walks are best experienced in smaller groups, so come ready for a lovely, slow walk about (really more standing than walking) 💙💜❤️ #plantwalks #cuttingroot

ONLINE SALE- coupon code WELCOMESPRING for $4 off

ONLINE SALE- coupon code WELCOMESPRING for $4 off every tincture and tincture blend! We aren’t at any markets this month and we want you to have this medicine so we’ll ship it to you, just jump over to our website to order. Some of our bulk herbs are on sale too- find a delicious discount on pounds of lemon balm, holy basil, marshmallow leaf, catnip and more! We love growing herbs and hope you enjoy them! #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

I’m sprouting elders and willows! I got a lot of

I’m sprouting elders and willows! I got a lot of questions about this from my story the other day. In late winter I always go out to one of our elder groves and cut some branches. This year I chose one particular copse of elder bushes who are too high for me to ever harvest from. I cut off some of the upper growth in an effort to help the tree bush out more. I got about 80 elder sticks which I put in water with willow branches. The willow branches are the second picture, they are more yellow. All the pictures with the little nubbins on the branches, those are elder. The willow roots out quite easily (see the last picture) and puts rooting hormone into the water which helps the elder root out too! After they develop roots, I stick them in soil, about three to a pot so that whoever ends up with the new starts, gets a nice little Elder Grove. I keep the willow branches inside and get pussy willows, or willow flowers in time for Easter. I really love a lot of spring traditions, and Easter is one of my favorites. #traditions #oldfriends #elders #cuttingroot

It’s the time of the year (really, it’s the ti

It’s the time of the year (really, it’s the time of our lives) when I’m thinking about respiratory medicines. Students have harvested wild cherry barks from our woods, we’ve grown the roots and flowers used in tinctures and teas and now we are offering a community class on Tuesdays in March- Respiratory and Immune Health Class Series. We will unpack some respiratory and immune system anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and outline foods and herbs you can use to help strengthen these systems. We’ll talk about specific diagnoses and herbs to help you heal. We’ll address the energetic components underlying different conditions. The herbal care packages will help you use taste to identify these energetics and also offer a starting point for your own respiratory health apothecary! Sign up on our website #herbclass #herbschool #herbfarm #cuttingroot

Bouquet CSA! We are taking sign ups for one more w

Bouquet CSA! We are taking sign ups for one more week, as you peer into the rainy February sky, just think about how soon the flowers will be sprouting! We have a whole field of baby plants tucked in underneath fabric, just waiting for the spring thaw. Our bouquet CSA means that you’ll get to pick out a weekly bouquet to bring home from market. Just sign up on our website, under CSA. #flowerfarm #cuttingroot

You can make your own medicine this year with fres

You can make your own medicine this year with fresh herbs direct from our farm! Our CSA programs are the best way for you to get fresh herbs. Seasonal Sampler- his new CSA option allows you to experience and experiment with many different herbs over three months! The first weekend of every month May-July OR August-October you’ll receive an array of fresh herbs. Each package will come with a sample of herbs fresh from our gardens, a booklet describing the herbs and how we suggest using them, and a hefty number of recipes for medicines, drinks and foods for you to try out! Bulk Herb CSA- This is our tried and true fresh herb CSA package. With the seasoned medicine maker in mind, each delivery includes one pound of fresh herbs for medicine making (drying, tincturing, cooking with). You choose the herbs from our list and as your herbs are ready, we’ll contact you one week in advance for pick up. Community Apothecary CSA- You’ve asked for it so it is here! Farm based learning, medicine making AND access to all the fresh herbs we grow? YES PLEASE! If you want to build community as you build your apothecary, this CSA option is for you. Each month, we will meet together in person at the farm and you will be able to harvest, process and taste all the herbs for yourself. #csa #herbfarm #herbfarmer #localherbs #localapothecary #medicinemaking #cuttingroot

Sign up to become part of the Herb of the Month Cl

Sign up to become part of the Herb of the Month Club on our website under “classes”. Herb of the Month Club is a new offering in 2022. Spanning from March – November 2022 we will explore and experience one herb per month. Each of these classes is recorded so you can experience it in your time, on your own schedule. Each month we will mail you a package containing supplies needed for you to engage with the plant in different ways and you will learn how to make infusions, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, salves, foods and more.

This is an invitation to immerse yourself more deeply in the plant world.

Working one on one with a plant can help you learn more about your surroundings and the ecosystems we live amongst. These Herb of the Month Classes are meant to be a guide to help you discover new things about yourself, your surroundings, and the plants. Knowing one herb intimately can be like having ten herbs in your apothecary.

The March Herb of the Month is (of course) Wild Cherry Bark.

The March Care Package will Contain: Fresh and dried wild cherry bark for making infusions and syrups, reusable cloth tea bags, honey, a dropper bottle to store your cherry bark syrup, a slide deck on Wild Cherry that provides botanical information, a materia medica, modern uses, history and folk lore, growing and wild gathering cherry bark, and how to make different medicinal preparations and a recorded 2 hour class on Wild Cherry Medicine.

Each Herb of the Month Class is $40, and if you purchase the whole year, you’ll receive a 10% discount on each care package ($324 total).

Our Herbs of the Month are:
March ~ Wild Cherry
April ~ Nettle
May ~ Dandelion
June ~ Holy Basil
July ~ Lemon Balm
August ~ Skullcap
September ~ Chamomile
October ~ Ashwagandha
November ~ Burdock

It was so fun writing herb monographs for you all

It was so fun writing herb monographs for you all in January so I am introducing a new offering- the Herb of the Month Club, starting in March with Wild Cherry. You can sign up now on our website. Herb of the Month Club is a new offering in 2022. Spanning from March – November 2022 we will explore and experience one herb per month. Each of these classes is recorded so you can experience it in your time, on your own schedule. Each month we will mail you a package containing supplies needed for you to engage with the plant in different ways and you will learn how to make infusions, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, salves, foods and more.

This is an invitation to immerse yourself more deeply in the plant world.

Working one on one with a plant can help you learn more about your surroundings and the ecosystems we live amongst. These Herb of the Month Classes are meant to be a guide to help you discover new things about yourself, your surroundings, and the plants. Knowing one herb intimately can be like having ten herbs in your apothecary.

The March Herb of the Month is (of course) Wild Cherry Bark.

The March Care Package will Contain: Fresh and dried wild cherry bark for making infusions and syrups, reusable cloth tea bags, honey, a dropper bottle to store your cherry bark syrup, a slide deck on Wild Cherry that provides botanical information, a materia medica, modern uses, history and folk lore, growing and wild gathering cherry bark, and how to make different medicinal preparations and a recorded 2 hour class on Wild Cherry Medicine.

Each Herb of the Month Class is $40, and if you purchase the whole year, you’ll receive a 10% discount on each care package ($324 total).

Our Herbs of the Month are:
March ~ Wild Cherry
April ~ Nettle
May ~ Dandelion
June ~ Holy Basil
July ~ Lemon Balm
August ~ Skullcap
September ~ Chamomile
October ~ Ashwagandha
November ~ Burdock #herbfarm #herbschool #herbteacher #herbcommunity #herbofthemonth #cuttingroot

Yarrow! These blossoms are a sure sign of spring,

Yarrow! These blossoms are a sure sign of spring, an early aster to bloom, usually occurring wild in white or pale pink but cultivated in all reds and pinks and even yellow. Yarrow hunny is a tasty treat, you can add it to other syrups, tinctures or make a sweet tea with it. See, yarrow is just about the most bitter medicine there is. I’ve ruined many teas by adding just too much yarrow to them- that’s why it’s part of our elderberry tonic syrup, just sneaking in the medicine there! Yarrow is an antibiotics for colds and flus, helps fevers, kills germs, and is probably my number one first aid herb. I always travel with some yarrow tincture- stomach bugs and skin scrapes both benefit from some of this medicine. It also has an affinity for the blood, making it one of my top menstrual herbs. The link yarrows we grow are excellent cut flowers as well as a good protection of energetic boundaries, which feels good when we invite so many people out to our land and home, we need some support to not absorb everything they bring out with them. Yarrow is a good herb to talk about today, imbolc, a good herb to get us through this last stretch of winter. #yarrow #localherbs #localapothecary #herbfarm #cuttingroot

Skullcap! The cutest plant on the garden and there

Skullcap! The cutest plant on the garden and therefore my favorite to grow. Thrives in damp shady spots, but tolerates sunny well drained areas. This plant is my number one favorite relaxing nervine. If you’re stressed, skullcap will help. If your shoulder ache from holding tension, skullcap will help. If your mind is racing and you can’t concentrate, skullcap will help. If your stomach is in knots and you can’t quite relax, skullcap will help. It’s great on its own as a simple, or with other herbs that help you relax. It’s great for muscle tension, circular thoughts, daytime stress and was originally used for rabies! Makes a great tea, and needs to be tinctured fresh. Join our fresh herb csa to get your share this season or just buy some dried in our online store. #skullcap #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

Sage! Yep, ole garden sage. It’s one of my favor

Sage! Yep, ole garden sage. It’s one of my favorite cooking herbs and one of my favorite teas. Great for a sore throat, it doesn’t have an overwhelming taste or cloying quality for me that other herbs do. So on days when I’m teaching and talking a lot I like to start my day with a cup of sage tea. Sage is warming and has affinity to the brain and frontal lobe, so it is used in Alzheimers (it is an acetylcholine inhibitor). Sage and rosemary are recommended to be used as potted plants in rooms where elderly people with dementia dwell. Sage would be recommended for nervous headaches, and nervous excitement, where there is accompanying nervous or brain disease. Sage is drying, and is often used in recipes to tighten gums, relax a boggy throat, dry up post nasal drip, reduce night sweats, and dry bleeding. It is contraindicated in pregnancy or during lactation in medicinal doses (because of this drying quality). My favorite thing that I’ve learned about sage is that is can be hard to germinate the seeds, but if you sing to them when you plant them, if you hum to them while you water them, if you talk to the baby plants, we get about a 90% germination and survival rate with seeds that have a 40% published rate. #sage #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

Oats! We grow oats for three reasons- as a cover c

Oats! We grow oats for three reasons- as a cover crop to reduce weeds in an area before we plant it, to harvest milky oats (more about that coming) and to harvest oatstaw. Now we don’t have any oatstraw in our online store right now because it is a big ingredient in our tea blends and it is an extremely time consuming herb to process. But we still have lots of milky oats! I’m smiling in this first photo because you have to catch the oats on just the right day for them to be in their unripe milky stage- that’s when they are the best medicine. When you make a tincture, always use fresh oats and always blend it (photo 9) to break the hard seed coats. Oats are a nervous system medicine, a restorative for anyone who has been doing too much. I like to imagine (this is not based in science) the milky oat covering our myelin sheaths, restoring the ability of our nervous system to communicate, to respond to stimuli, to react to stress. Milky oat tincture is sweet and delicious, milky oat tea needs to be decocted and cooked for at least 20 minutes or longer. For myself, I love nettle, lemon balm and oats. What do you like to mix with yours? #oats #milkyoats #oatstraw #localherbs #localapothecary #herbfarm #cuttingroot

Mullein! A wonderfully beautiful plant to grow, wh

Mullein! A wonderfully beautiful plant to grow, when in bloom the bees, the hummingbirds and everyone else is all over these plants. That’s why we grow greek mullein, these plants grow more in candelabras than the common mullein that you see road side. Try flower in the second year giving us anti-inflammatory and calming/relaxing flowers, usually for ear aches but also used for emotional calming. The leaves are a stimulating expectorant, helping us cough up phlegm and anything stuck in the lungs and the root is anti inflammatory for tendons and muscles, best used in salves. This year I want to see more people growing Greek mullein in their gardens for the pollinators so we’ll be selling a lot of baby plant starts - we’ll be posting our inventory and some special deals in March. Stay tuned! #mullein #lungmedicine #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

Mugwort. You probably already know about mugwort-f

Mugwort. You probably already know about mugwort-for-dreaming and mugwort-for-smudging so I’ll go in a different direction. Mugwort looks just like motherwort when they are starting out. On the Pittsburgh lot where I started gardening they looked almost identical in early spring even though they are totally different plants and not even in the same family. As you can see from these pictures mugwort is in the aster family -these are a little tiny flower buds that will burst open with pistils sticking out ready to be pollinated by anyone who comes by. After a while, they start to look different, and I’m always amazed at their likeness, a mint family member and an aster family. The other thing that I’ve learned about mugwort is that it should develop lots of seeds, asters usually do, but I’ve never been able to propagate the plant from seeds. On our farm, there wasn’t any mugwort seven years ago, we dug up a clump from our city lot and planted it in the garden. We’ve moved it a few times and now we have a long row of mugwort and little patches where we dig it up from- this plant is easy to spread from the roots. It’s in the genus Artemisia, a plant of the goddess Artemis, and the other Artemisias like sage brush and wormwood are similar in their taste and actions. #mugwort #dreamer #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

Motherwort! Leonorus cardiaca! Lion hearted! An he

Motherwort! Leonorus cardiaca! Lion hearted! An herb with an affinity for Leo, I pay attention to the moon cycles and try and use this herb when the moon is in Leo, or in early spring, Leo season. An herbal ally for those who feel their anxiety in their heart, perhaps a heart ache, a heart flutter, a palpitation. Good for those who feel their emotions in their heart and equally good for those who don’t- I like to use this herb to cultivate that relationship, to try and stretch those muscles a bit. Once I made an oil from motherwort to massage on my heart when I needed to be more open and vulnerable (Scorpio moon y’all). I chose these slides in order of their growth this year, it’s a common weed in Pittsburgh, growing in almost every empty lot, but looks different at various times in its life cycle. It is a bitter and an antispasmodic and I like to use this plant with others in menstrual cramp formulas. I personally love the tea, I don’t seep it for very long because it can get very bitter, but also a tincture will do when I’m on the go. How do you like to use motherwort? #motherwort #herbalmedicine #herbfarm #localherbs #localapothecary #cuttingroot

Marshmallow! Oh this plant, soft velvety leaves, g

Marshmallow! Oh this plant, soft velvety leaves, gorgeous delicate flowers, and a deliciously medicinal root. Growing these plants is lovely, they take literally no work, they love wet spots in the yard, sun or no sun, and will come back year after year. If you take good care of them (lots of water) you’ll get giant roots you can harvest the first year. I like using the leaves in teas to add moisture and softness, and the roots make a great addition to soothing teas or just a single ingredient “slippy”. Marshmallow is soothing for your throat, your gut, urinary track, basically anything that needs a nice nutritive coating. We have tons of dried leaf in the apothecary and a little bit of roots left. Oh, one time I made a syrup with marshmallow root and hunny and the roots made the syrup so disgustingly thick… never again, let me make that mistake for you, lol. #marshmallow #herbfarm #cuttingroot

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