YEG Community Herbalist – Dionne Jennings
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,…
Ok, let’s be honest, the summer is a busy time of year for everyone. Especially here in Alberta, where it feels like we have to have every weekend planned of our short, short summer season!! It is especially a bumping time for any herbalist who endeavors to grow & make as much of her own…