Category Archives: health

Medicinal Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus) – harvesting and preparation

Posted on August 28, 2019 by earthstonestation

  Remedios de Ledoux Mullein is a medicinal herb native to Europe, Asia and N. Africa. The highest diversity of plants is found in the Mediterranean region. During the 1700s early settlers brought mullein seeds to the new colonies in … Continue reading →

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Medicinal Milk Thistle – harvesting and preparation

Posted on August 21, 2019 by earthstonestation

Remedios de Ledoux Milk Thistle is a herbaceous annual or biennial plant with a dense prickly flower head and reddish-purple tubular flowers. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has been naturalized in Central Europe, North and South America … Continue reading →

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Medicinal Herb Survey at the Lower Farm

Posted on July 10, 2019 by earthstonestation

Remedios de Ledoux Wild plants have been used by humans for medicinal purposes since prehistoric times. In the past two thousand years volumes of books have been written, by herbalists from around the world, to document the preparation and use … Continue reading →

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ART and Wellness….diary sketches

Posted on July 3, 2019 by earthstonestation

    “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”     Pablo Picasso Rummaging around in my attic I came across an old black portfolio case. Safeguarded inside were art notes and sketches, ideas to be pursued at a … Continue reading →

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A Small Patch Where Little Flowers Grow

Posted on June 19, 2019 by earthstonestation

Where Little Flowers Grow   I left a small patch A place I didn’t mow, Just a small patch Where little flowers grow.     In the morning sun I see The oasis radiantly glow, I’m seated on the Earth … Continue reading →

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Apple Blossoms and Lilacs

Posted on May 29, 2019 by earthstonestation

  Apple blossoms bring back memories of my youth. In back of the homes across the street from where I lived was a long narrow cornfield. Running in a perfectly straight line on the far side of the cornfield was … Continue reading →

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Wellness at the Waterfall

Posted on May 22, 2019 by earthstonestation

  Waterfalls…noisily rushing over a precipice of land, crashing to the surface below, the air cooler where the water mists, an ancestral memory. Besides their captivating appearance in nature, waterfalls have been shown to improve mental and physical well being … Continue reading →

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Where did the breadbox go?

Posted on January 16, 2019 by earthstonestation

Found in an old cabin In American kitchens of the 1940s and 50s, in nearly every home, a breadbox sat on the countertop. I know in ours it did, as well as every neighbor, friend and family. Ours disappeared from … Continue reading →

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Wood heat at the Lower Farm

Posted on January 9, 2019 by earthstonestation

“In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows cheerfully ascends….We enjoy now, not an oriental, but a boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow … Continue reading →

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New Mexico calling

Posted on July 10, 2015 by earthstonestation

Update: 10 July 2015 There comes a time when we realize we have wandered down some side trail other than the path we had intended to travel. And such it was. For the past ten years I have been the … Continue reading →

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