Rosemary Gladstar

This name! on an herbalist, no less.  

My family and I discovered a farm recently while taking a drive.  When we learned about the plant medicine class taking place there the following day, my oldest daughter begged to attend.  I was a little nervous about taking a six year old, but with a light in her eye and a pounding in my own heart that I just had to honor, we happily returned for the class.  We loved it.  And so …  here I am being drawn back, full circle, to a path I took up and then veered from years ago.  Funny how our kids can bring us round again - that I should have a six year old  interested in "plant potions" and through teaching her I rekindle something essential, something richer even for the detour.  And the detours …. I gain a better understanding of them, too. beautiful loops.  

 I'm starting Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs book now. 

I love this video tutorial of Rosemary making cough syrup.  

Getting this game, and this book for my little herb lover. 

My favorite herbal names:  Clove, Nettle, Noni, Rosemary, Yarrow.  

image - from an interview with Rosemary

image - mine, from National Colonial Farm