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Dandelions are Superfoods
Gardening | Health | Herbs

Dandelions are Superfoods

ByAbby Quillen March 5, 2022March 9, 2022

Every spring people stock up on Round Up and Weed-B-Gon to prepare themselves for battle against one of my favorite flowers – the humble dandelion. If you’re not as big a fan as I am of these yellow-headed “weeds”, which grow in lawns and sunny open spaces throughout the world, I know of a great…

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Gardening

March Seeds Bring April Greens

ByAbby Quillen April 7, 2014September 3, 2016

It’s spring and it’s gardening time again! It was the shortest winter in history (although I perhaps would not have said that mid-January). I planted a few of our beds a couple of weeks ago. It’s our seventh gardening season in our backyard, and I actually sort of know what I’m doing now. It helps…

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The Healing Power of Trees
Health | Parenting

The Healing Power of Trees

ByAbby Quillen February 11, 2013March 7, 2019

Cough, cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough. That’s how our household sounds this week. So it was with interest that I read that infused Douglas-fir needles are a traditional cough remedy. Douglas-fir needles? They’re everywhere here; they dust the sky and litter the ground. And yet I’d never thought to ingest them. According to botanist and…

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