ROBINWOOD
Herbal Medicine and the sun and stars
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- You Can’t Have It All
- Journey into Herbalism
- A vacation in Cayman
- Top photos of 2019
- Thanksgiving 2019
- Wishes for my baby, on his first Birthday
- The Chronicles of the Robin Witch
- Cottonwood
- Little Owl
- The Garden
- Studio Bus
- Forest horses
- Wild Harvest
- The Cabin
- Mt H’Kusam
- Elk Land
- White River Provincial Park
- Salmon River Spawning
- Mushroom Hunting
- Toads
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Withania Somnifera, what a spellbinding name. Ashwagandha, you might have heard. This root, this earthy medicine. One you have to dig for. Go deep. Get dirty. Untangle. Pick and scrub and rinse and rinse, and dry and chop and… pulverize. Encapsulate. It grows tediously slow, and here at the end of October, perhaps if you are lucky, she is finally, finally ready.
Tomatoes are my favourite food to preserve for the winter. Salsa, sauces, and dozens and dozens of jars of bright sweet red summer love. It’s a lot of choppin. One more batch to go!!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅
I think I figured out why people say, “Cool beans”
Oh, almost forgot. I did it with a 3 year old. 🥴🥱😬 😂
Bear has been here. The energy has shifted.
Song for Autumn