Make mine a Positive Potion

Starting to put the Positive Potions garden to bed right now… harvesting the tender stevia before the first frosts, cutting back the acres of chamomile, snipping off the last of the cornflower, bringing in the lemon verbena, rosemary, basil mint, teetering a bit to cut leaves off our gigantic ginko tree, waiting for dry days to get the last of the sumac in. Busy busy!

I LOVE this time of year, with its clearing and assessing how the season has gone. And - weird above all - it’s been a bumper season for our botanicals, so there’s massive satisfaction in gathering up the herbs and feeling good to go for whatever comes next! Have herbs, will flourish! These allies from the plant-kingdom, so many of them so overlooked (nettles! Cleavers! Burdock! Dandelion!) are all our best friends right now, in these unsteady times. Not saying they’re a 100% cure to whatever nasties might try to challenge our good healths, but they are hands down the best support our bodies can rely upon.

Peer reviewed remedies? How’s about a few thousand years of being written about, re-assessed, discussed, depended on, befriended? And the best bit of all: most of them are growing in a hedgerow or garden-edge near you right now. Of course, for ease of use (!) we have collected said botanicals up for you already, so no worries if foraging isn’t possible. Anyway, just saying. Make mine a Positive Potion. And big gratitude to these botanical beauties, right now more than ever.