Greetings , welcome to North Idaho Herbal. A blog about local herbs and their uses, entheogens, sources, wildcrafting and ethics.
For everybody else it might be Spring in a few days, you know, the Equinox and all that. Around here, ie. N. Idaho, just short of the Canadian border, it's still pretty much winter. We are getting some reasonably nice days with temps of 40 F. but the nights are still below freezing and there's about 2 feet of snow in the flats. Just last week a small storm blew in 8" of new snow and sub-zero temps for a couple of days.
So, maybe you can understand why I'm not going to deal much with planting, wild-crafting or really anything to do with the out-of-doors for awhile yet.
However, this is the time of year to check the larder, so to speak, or your cache, stash, goody-bag or whatever, to see what's left after a long and tedious winter. It's a good idea to keep track of the herbs and medicinals you've used so that you can be better prepared for the next round of winter's wonderland. Wouldn't want to caught short, now would we?
I don't know about you folks, but being an herbalist, living and working in the great outdoors is my life and being cooped up inside because of inclement weather can be a real drag after a month or two. So I use this time to process my harvested ethnobotanicals and experiment with different flavor and effect combinations of local and store-bought favorites.
In the coming weeks I'll be sharing some of these favorites and tips about use and effects with you. Feel free to comment and/or link, Thanx, Woodco.