Remedies

By Sari Huhtala

Bet you’ve driven or walked past this common weed many times, and never even realized its use as a tea to successfully cure tuberculosis in the late 1800s, not to mention its efficacy against the staphylococcal bacteria … [More...]

By Mercedes Kay Gold, CNP, CPT 

Winter wonderland is on the way and the healing herb oregano should be within arm’s reach. Yes, oregano, a staple in cuisines worldwide. Oregano, a close relative of marjoram and a member of … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

Feel a cold coming on? Nagging cough keeping you up at night? Try this simple thyme honey cough syrup.

Thyme, or thymus, as a tea, tincture or liquid extract, is classified and recognized under the European Drugs … [More...]

By Mercedes Kay Gold, CNP, CPT

This homegrown garden goodness of herbs is a bounty of health benefits. Parsley is easy to grow and spreads stupendously. Parsley, is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean, and cultivated for more than 2,000 … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

The next time you’re out hiking, reach for red raspberry leaves and fix yourself a health-boosting tea for free. If you have wild raspberry bushes close by or a raspberry bush growing in your backyard you have … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

Don’t toss those radish leaves in the compost! Try a new twist on an old favorite. Swap out basil leaves in your next pesto dish with radish leaves and reap mounds of health benefits.

Looking for high … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

After researching the mountains of health benefits of radish this winter, I decided radish was going to be a plant companion for nearly everything in my garden. The result has been a ridiculous quantity of radish, which … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

This past winter a neighbour called to see if I had any pumpkin seed powder. I didn’t, but I thought to myself, why am I not making my own insanely nutritious, ridiculously easy, free pumpkin seed … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

Years ago, golden milk became a trendy health drink. While its popularity may have waned over the years, its number one ingredient is still considered the “wonder drug of life.”

That ingredient is turmeric, a natural polyphenol … [More...]

By Sari Huhtala

If Cleopatra worked at Sephora she’d be telling you to go home and slather your face with aloe vera. With a track record of thousands of years of medicinal use for diseases, wounds and skin lesions, aloe … [More...]