Grandmother medicine.
( my mother mina, and my grandmother Ashraf compulsively dead heading, a habit she passed down to both my mother and I.) since i was a...
Tree Medicine
(fruit of the serviceberry tree) Recently, I have been asked by a few people about the practice of harvesting tree medicine and it got my...
Nowruz Mobarak || Happy Spring!
(Haft Seen Altar for Persian New Year) Spring is upon us here in the Hudson Valley! I've been busy raking out my garden beds, and to my...
Rites of passage
In my culture, bangles are given as gift when one moves through a rite of passage, a threshold, an initiation. Growing up with a single...
Ally of Planned Parenthood
So thrilled that the school I co-run, Wild Gather: Hudson Valley School of Herbal Studies will be taking part in this town wide event...
Working with Poison Ivy
I've been working with poison ivy, or as i'd like to call them, queen ivy as a plant ally for a little over 5 years. When I tell folks...
The healing harvest
For me June signals the rose harvest. Each year, I make my trip to the ocean, where the beach rose (Rosa rugosa) thrives. I grow Beach...
Spring's Fruits
morels and young basswood leaves Here in the Hudson Valley we have been gifted a spring to dream about. This spring reminds me of the...
In these days...
It's been awhile. I've been busy gathering, educating, creating, dreaming, fighting the good fight, and everything in between. It's a...
spring ephemerals: a psa on ramps
(above: day lillies, Hemerocallis fulva. a great alternative to ramps) This is a post on ramps that I posted last spring, that feels even...