Our friends at Knocklofty Press have released the first in a new series of eBooks about herbs.
Kitchen Quartet #1 tells you all you need to know about growing and using coriander, basil, dill and oregano, as well as some of the fascinating folk wisdom and myth that has collected around these important food plants.
It includes [...]
Preventative Medicine
There have been many miraculous cases of people who have healed themselves by clinging to religion or positively thinking themselves out of a life-threatening ailment. Psychologists have been studying the idea of “mind over matter” for decades now, with little scientific proof as to the mechanics of miracles. The proof lies in the end [...]
They were once known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World — a manufactured mountain towering above the Babylonian plains, build by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his favourite wife, who was homesick for trees and mountains on the featureless Mesopotamian landscape, in what is now Iraq.
The Hanging Gardens were terraced roof gardens, built [...]
Lavender aromatherapy is an alternative form of treatment that varies in its effect. The factors that affect this alternative treatment are dependent on the person himself and the intensity of the treatment as well as what is combined with the treatment for it to be effective. There are many different applications of lavender aromatherapy and [...]
Photograph by Amberdc
By one definition a herb is “a useful plant.” These “uses” can be culinary, medicinal, cosmetic and even poisonous — hopefully only for garden pests and insects..
The herb enthusiast could probably find every plant useful in some form or other. I like to constrain herbs to that collection of plants that are “life-enhancing” [...]