Weeds & Wild Plants

Digging roots for medicinal uses when it seems the harvest is past.

Oct 10, 2003 - Barbara Hall

Lobelia inflata is a wayside weed with powerful and unpredictable healing abilities.

Aug 5, 2003 - Barbara Hall

Lyme Disease prevention with a few new spins

May 6, 2003 - Barbara Hall

Yet another look at the new Mid-Winter Rituals.

Feb 1, 2003 - Barbara Hall

To a babyboomer, the notion of global menopause begins to play out.

Jan 21, 2003 - Barbara Hall

Some of us 'weeds' know where we NEED to be, and for me it's where I can watch the dear weeds in their NATURAL habitat.

Nov 24, 2002 - Barbara Hall

How much promise might the new MaxForce Tick Management System hold for Lyme Disease-ridden states?

Jun 16, 2002 - Barbara Hall

Soothings from the Wild, swimming about in oils, and perhaps the Violet blossoms will help the ringing in my ear."

May 3, 2002 - Barbara Hall

As the signs of spring arrive, a certain silliness runs through us all. Hallelujah.

Mar 19, 2002 - Barbara Hall

02/02/02...QUITE the date! What will it bring to GroundHog Day 2002?

Jan 30, 2002 - Barbara Hall

Be it ever so scrambled, it's still sleep and soup to get us through another winter

Dec 8, 2001 - Barbara Hall

Nature continues to be our mirror to the bigger picture. We DO go on.

Nov 13, 2001 - Barbara Hall

We handled the shock, the grief, the beginnings of the bombing and when we thought we just couldn't take any more......Here are some gentle helpers in a difficult time.

Oct 17, 2001 - Barbara Hall

Of friends and heroic survivors - and of making a garden with Ali.

Sep 14, 2001 - Barbara Hall

After EIGHT cases of Lyme Disease, wouldn't you know it's a WEED that helps avert a ninth!

Jul 26, 2001 - Barbara Hall

A few 'time out' words as I consider leaving this corner of the SuiteGardens for another

Apr 22, 2001 - Barbara Hall

They emerge right at the HEIGHT of cold and flu season, can you IMAGINE if one woke up with snorts and sniffles?

Jan 31, 2001 - Barbara Hall

If you can't be making a garden, you might as well be making SOUP.

Jan 2, 2001 - Barbara Hall

Even with winter coming, we can still Read the Weeds

Dec 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Ancient NEW Stress-Relieving tool! Shall I drop my leaves and gather them together

Nov 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Seems the Wild Things are just on the other side of the door!

Oct 9, 2000 - Barbara Hall

If we quiet ourselves enough, we FEEL it coming, just like the plants and animals do

Sep 28, 2000 - Barbara Hall

There were times when I had MY doubts as to whether I could DO it, but I do believe I have survived yet again!

Aug 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

You stay, You go. On WHAT do we base these decisions??

Jul 4, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Cleavers (Galium aparine)- overlooked or pulled out, it's actually a valuable healer!

Jun 2, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Ah, be careful where you step past the first of May when the Faeries awaken and return to the gardens

May 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Observances of a new commuter, as spring unfolds along the route to work.

Apr 19, 2000 - Barbara Hall

The population grows, the herbal medicine market grows and the plants need to be GROWN and no longer gathered.

Mar 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Go searching for Ground Hogs in the year 2000 and you don't know WHAT you'll dig up!

Feb 2, 2000 - Barbara Hall

Motherwort, another WonderWeed that can Sooth a Mood and take the Edge off the Edgies.

Jan 1, 2000 - Barbara Hall

The passing of an elder friend reminds me to make note of the small treasures

Dec 1, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Barberry - the bane of farmers, sold in nurseries, and a valuable member of the herbalists' medicine chest.

Nov 1, 1999 - Barbara Hall

The arrival of the wild asters of autumn help us hope that they and the honeybees who love them will return if we keep spraying pesticides as is being done in New York now.

Sep 27, 1999 - Barbara Hall

A real pro at this tackles her SEVENTH case of Lyme disease...and wins!

Aug 31, 1999 - Barbara Hall

The drought goes on, and things adapt, and there's little use in railing at the sky.

Aug 11, 1999 - Barbara Hall

In the sadness of a dry, hot, brutal summer, there is still much to be learned if we will but listen.

Jul 30, 1999 - Barbara Hall

A Solstice look at a Summer Meadow where no one is a weed

Jun 22, 1999 - Barbara Hall

What I learned about raising a white-tailed deer fawn. That basically, we shouldn't.

Jun 8, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Some daydreaming about how I'd live in my own perfect world.

May 25, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Some surprising uses for another jewel of our lawn, the Violets of spring

May 12, 1999 - Barbara Hall

There is much to be learned from the plants around us with our touch.

Apr 27, 1999 - Barbara Hall

An Earth Day call to acknowledge that something good happens when people and plants interact in even small ways.

Apr 13, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Tasha Tudor's Garden.. a stunningly beautiful and inpsiring book by Tovah Martin and Richard W. Brown that gives us a glimpse into the life and gardens of a surprising woman.

Mar 23, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Plantain - so common you probably don't even see it, (but you will now!) and some words on genetic engineering of crops.

Mar 9, 1999 - Barbara Hall

A look at making syrup from our own maple trees for the first time.

Feb 23, 1999 - Barbara Hall

When thoughts turn to love, our eyes turn to the fields.....

Feb 9, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Everything you want to know about GroundHog Day!

Jan 26, 1999 - Barbara Hall

Saving seeds, sharing seeds and some worries about the genetically engineered seeds.

Jan 12, 1999 - Barbara Hall

In a place where flora and fauna are so strange to me comes a dolphin-blessing

Dec 31, 1998 - Barbara Hall

A Solstice look at the concept of human hibernation -- even just a little bit.

Dec 23, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Blessings to heap upon your house by what you choose to put into your holiday wreath.

Dec 9, 1998 - Barbara Hall

It's all in how you look at it: cockroaches? or angels?

Nov 24, 1998 - Barbara Hall

At a time of year like no other, the quiet wisdom of the forest is offered to a small pilgrim.

Nov 10, 1998 - Barbara Hall

The final curtain of the gardening season and the faeries take a bow.

Oct 27, 1998 - Barbara Hall

A look at the word weed. The good guys and the bad guys

Oct 8, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Egg-standing celebrations for the Autumn Equinox in Lady Barbara's September Moon Garden.

Sep 23, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Some surprising merits of Goldenrod

Sep 10, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Impatiens cousin, poison ivy soother, hummingbird's brunch. Not bad for a weed!

Aug 25, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Beestings, allergic reactions and using Osha root tincture for them

Aug 13, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Cicada hatching

Jul 28, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Purslane, another incredible edible weed

Jul 15, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Over-hyped or maligned, St John's wort has certainly grabbed the headlines!

Jun 23, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Wild grasses or manicured lawns?

Jun 9, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Lamb's Quarters for dinner!

May 26, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Our best-known weed is supremely nourishing and a Mother's Day Classic

May 10, 1998 - Barbara Hall

a look at what SHOULD be a universal holiday!

Apr 21, 1998 - Barbara Hall

The complexities of Lyme Disease

Apr 7, 1998 - Barbara Hall

How we get Lyme Diseas, it's prevention and an herbal tick repellant

Mar 24, 1998 - Barbara Hall

The HERstory of herbal healing

Mar 12, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Itching, oozing Poison Ivy. How to avoid it and how to cope with getting it - herbally!

Feb 23, 1998 - Barbara Hall

Feb 10, 1998 - Barbara Hall

lowly Chickweed, surprising uses!

Jan 27, 1998 - Barbara Hall

In the thaw of January, plans can be made for the first Weedy Feast of the season.

Jan 6, 1998 - Barbara Hall

The making of a St. Barbara's Day wreath and the passing of Adelma Simmons

Dec 23, 1997 - Barbara Hall

Surprise! Weeds are for a lot more than pulling!

Dec 9, 1997 - Barbara Hall