By Vicki Patterson Spending time in the garden, making my herbal loose leaf teas blends while studying and watching plants, I learned something new. I learned how medicinal weeds are. As you see in the picture above we had a really nice volunteer crop of chamomile come up, so that inspired me to not pull anything else that came up until I identified and researched the benefits. What I found out was so inspiring! As you’ve been following my posts, you know I’ve been an avid g

Nature has an innate knowledge and our world is a living being, both intelligent and aware. Plants have evolved over millions of years to become dynamic, highly developed complex beings. With their neutral networks and various methods of communication, they perceive and interact with their environment and both complete and collaborate with other forms of life, including fungi, insects, bacteria, viruses and other plants. Our society is wholly inter-dependent on the plant comm

Through photosynthesis plants absorb the sun. As we eat plants, we harvest energy of the sun and, dust, life force. Leaving foods provide us with the few are cells need to live life with vitality. Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants use sunlight, water and chlorophyll to create oxygen and food. The structure of chlorophyll is close to that of hemoglobin, the oxygen molecule in our blood. Chlorophyll has a magnesium molecule, whereby hemoglobin has an iron mole