YEG Community Herbalist – Dionne Jennings
Hey-o, Plant Lovers! ‘Tis the season to get out in the field! Summer is the season for outdoors-and the outdoors means time in nature, whether it’s road trips, day hikes, gardening, camping, or time by the lake! And what better way to spend time in nature than to observe our local plants? Whenever I go…
Welcome back! In Part 1 of the “Art of No-or Why Saying No IS Self Care” I talked a lot about my experience as a small business owner & how I first learned to say no as a financial & sanity saving survival skill. (If you missed it, you can catch up on that here)….
When I was 24 I didn’t really know what I wanted to “DO” with my life. So, I bought a flower shop. (Obviously. As you do.) As anyone can tell you who is self-employed or has owned a small business, it’s no cake walk—certainly not at the start. People have lots of romantic assumptions about…
Good question, friends. Gooooood question!! So today I thought I’d talk a little bit about what a herbalist actually is-and what exactly we do. Some of you might know me by way of social media, which is how a lot of us come to know each other these days. And on social media I post…
There’s so much more I wanted to explore around the Chaga discussion stirred up most recently by Robert Rogers’ article for United Plant Savers than could possibly be included in a brief Facebook post (which several people shared-thanks for that!). I was wondering, for instance, if anyone might peg me as being anti-Chaga. Or possibly…
I’ve been thinking about fatigue a lot lately. Fatigue & the lost art of leisure time & doing nothing. Heck, how I have been looking back wistfully and longingly on the days when I didn’t have to check my work e-mail when I wasn’t actually at work. When my day ended when I stepped out…
Ok so last post (it’s been a few weeks since then!) we started discussing our body’s changing needs with the changing seasons, & I promised more strategies to follow. I must confess, with no damn snow it’s been hard to wrap my head around switching into winter mode. We played some Christmas carols at…
Hello Friends, Happy Fall! I have exciting news- I’m super pleased to announce my upcoming Kitchen Herbalist Apprenticeship series. It’s a comprehensive 4 part intro to herbal medicine making that opens for registration today! Want to know if this series is for you? -Are you interested in plants &/or herbs? -Do you like cooking, baking,…
So we got our first snowfall last Friday. I so wanted everything wrapped up before the first snowfall. As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’ve been feeling the pull of the change of the seasons leading up to the Equinox. It’s a pull to slow down. It’s a pull to move even further…
Ah, fall. Hands-down my favourite season here in the North. The season where the earth sings with it’s bounty and offers up abundance & beauty like blessings. The thing with fall, after summer’s craziness, is that in our go-go-go culture (is this just an AB thing??), even though things are starting to slow & mellow,…