milkweed

Wild Flowers of the Catskills II

  • Joe Pye Weed

    Joe Pye Weed

  • Thistle

    Thistle

  • Vetch

    Vetch

  • Yarrow

    Yarrow

  • Wild Rose

    Wild Rose

  • Vetch

    Vetch

  • Plantain

    Plantain

  • St John's Wort

    St John's Wort

  • Bluet

    Bluet

  • Milkweed Fluff

    Milkweed Fluff

  • Ox-Eye Daisy

    Ox-Eye Daisy

  • Columbine

    Columbine

St. John’s Wort, Yarrow, Vetch, Ox-eye Daisy, Plantain, Milkweed, Thistle, Joe Pie Weed, Bluet, Rose and many more potent and helpful herbs abound in the alpine meadows of the famous pristine Catskills of New York.

Having the opportunity to get to know these friendly herbs in this wild environment has been really helpful in understanding how the healing properties — like the volatile oils and vitamin and mineral content — can be more or less potent depending on the earth they are grown in. Growing up in the harsh contrary conditions of long freezing winters and wild warm storms of the summer have made these herbs strong.

Cookies and Ladybugs Recipe Postcard

Cookies and Ladybugs Recipe Postcard

BUY THIS: Postcard on zazzle.com The recipe on the back of this card is my favorite recipe for chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. The ladybug is sitting on a beautiful pink milkweed blossom. ...

Butterfly Hope

Butterfly Hope

Beautiful butterflies of Neversink, New York. Red Admirals and Eastern Tiger Swallowtails hang out on lovely pink milkweed blossoms. Butterflies represent hopeful transformation and in this period of transition they are a powerfully symbolic medicine to show us the path to a new way of being. ...

Wild Flowers of the Catskills I

Wild Flowers of the Catskills I

Yarrow, Vetch, Ox-eye Daisy, Plantain, Milkweed, Thistle, Joe Pie Weed, Indian Pipe, Bluet, Rose and many more potent and helpful herbs abound in the alpine meadows of the famous pristine Catskills of New York. Having the opportunity to get to know these friendly herbs in this wild environment ha ...