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Let it rain. Let it snow even. Let it be crisp cold. Let clouds cover the sky…or strip it to the sparkling blue.  Let the fire in your home lullaby you. Let Nature set the rhythm of hours and minutes for a little longer.  Wishing you timeless days and unreasonable laughter on your first steps into the new year.  While my wise friends, the plants, are still sleeping in their beds dreaming of the wonders of spring and summer to come, I will be having some fun making some medicine - creams,...

Hoping you are buzzing with joy in preparations to delight body and soul, yours and the ones around you, I am sending you a story which might be a little inspiration to celebrate herbs and their kind gifts of wellbeing. Thank you for your curiosity and will to follow my dancing with herbs, in words, photographs, in the garden, in the kitchen and in my clinic. See you next year for more herbal adventures, stay joyful and kind. Why Vermouth When a gourmet dinner with friends or family ends and...

As the rainbow of autumn colors surrounding us now, are beginning to fade away into shades of grey, we should listen to our instincts as often as we can, and rest more, care and repair more.    For myself, I’ve had a busy autumn, with hosting a Sensorial writing workshop at the Ireland Writing Retreat  in Belfast in October; mentoring a new group of beginners herbalists at the Plant Medicine School in Wexford - whom I am happy to mentor throughout their next two year studies - and hosting a...