The Medicine Garden
Val AlcornWeekly lessons learned from living in the forest, making art, growing medicine, exploring folk traditions (particularly of Polish origin), and exploring our shared language with the cosmic world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 116 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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While it’s the day after, I know Mother’s Day can bring up complex emotions in so many ways. I thought maybe this year I would focus on what it really means to call earth “mother”. A sad quiet part of me used to have a hard time believing w...
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A river remembers
You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Reme...
What makes a place sentient
Most of use are taught, somehow, about giving and accepting human gifts, but not about opening ourselves and our bodies to welcome the sun, the land, the visions of sky and dreaming, not about standing in the rain ecstatic with what is offe...
The secret all plants hold
part 3
The thought often crosses my mind that every human here on earth has gazed up at the same moon. In our darkest nights, we looked up and saw her. The same moon I hold tonight is the moon Matsuo Bashō wrote about often in his haikus h...
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Val is an herbalist, gardener, writer, and artist. She is the owner of Woodspell Apothecary where she cultivates resources for folks to connect to the plant world around them.
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