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Why Gardening Makes You Happy and Cures Depression | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Why Gardening Makes You Happy and Cures Depression. While mental health experts warn about depression as a global epidemic, other researchers are discovering ways we trigger our natural production of happy chemicals that keep depression at bay, with surprising results. All you need to do is get your fingers dirty and harvest your own food. Via Why Gardening Makes You Happy and Cures Depression – Articles – Permaculture College Australia. A walk through the garden. Important Fo...
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Our calendar for the year | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Our calendar for the year. We decided to plan ahead this year, and we’ve set the topic and dates for the coming months. Please note – dates ARE subject to change. We’ll try to post the announcement each month when the date is settled and let you know the location and directions then. Sunday March 24, 2 pm – Red Clover. Tuesday April 9, 5:30 pm – Kudzu and other Medicinal Invasives. Saturday May 4 – Herb Day Celebration. Saturday June 22 – Summer Solstice. Celebrate abundance a...
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Roots | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Local plants, local people. The Pickens Herbalist Guild ties together a group bound by the roots of a community in North Georgia. Membership has no residency requirements – we have folks from Ellijay, Atlanta, Gainesville. Not all of us are from here – but we got here as fast as we could. We love this place and we especially love its soil, and the plants that grow in it. This website is just another place to meet during the times between seeing each other. You are commenting u...
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Local plants, local people. Wholesale herbal medicine – in 1939. Ladies’ Slipper root, 70 cents a pound. Blood root, 30 cents a pound. Dandelion root – washed and split up – 20 cents a pound. That’s the wholesale prices at Elliott D. Richard’s wholesale shop in New York, in 1939. Thanks to Crystal for sharing]. This entry was posted on April 25, 2012, in Musings. Yellow root: This Thursday! Yellow root in bloom. We’ll meet this Thursday, April 26 at 7 pm, at the Creative and Performing Arts Academy.
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Heal the heart with Hawthorn | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Heal the heart with Hawthorn. NEXT SUNDAY, Feb. 10, join us at Whitestone Farm, Talking Rock – 3 to 6 pm. Our Herb to Study – Hawthorn. And we’ll have discussion on herbs for the heart. We will also tour some of Whitestone Farm. If you haven’t been to Whitestone Farm, you will enjoy this outing. If you have, you know how wonderful it is there already! Info about the Farm: click here. Other meetings of the herbalists coming up this year:. March 24 – Red Clover. You are commenti...
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THIS SUNDAY field trip to Twelve Stone Farm | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. THIS SUNDAY field trip to Twelve Stone Farm. Passionflower – Samuel Greenberg via Facebook. For July, the Pickens Herbalist Guild celebrates the beautiful and very medicinal passiflora incarnata. We’ll have a day outing on Sunday, July 29 to Twelve Stone Farm in Talking Rock to harvest and celebrate it! Arrive in the morning at your preferred time. Start time is marked for 8 am to avoid the heat with an early start, but you can join in whenever you like. Other things to bring:.
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Celebrate abundance at the herbal Treasure Share! | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Celebrate abundance at the herbal Treasure Share! Mark your calendar for Sunday, Nov. 11, from noon to 4 pm. It’s our first Treasure Share! Time to reflect on our first year together, plant ‘idea’ seeds for next year, and share our gratitude and our love of plants and herbs with each other. Location: The beautiful Twelve Stone Farms has graciously offered to host us. 576 Bunch Court, Talking Rock, Georgia 30175. A budding gardner would treasure it! Let it educate someone new!
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Burn baby burn (moxibustion, that is!) | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. Burn baby burn (moxibustion, that is! Ever wondered about moxibustion – the Chinese practice of burning mugwort? Guest expert Sylvie Augustin will explain and demonstate the techniques at our meeting Sept. 27. She is a local practitioner of medical qi gong, and a food adviser, as well as co-owner of Whitestone Farms (and a dance instructor, too! Moxibustion as explained in Wikipedia. Is used “to warm regions and acupuncture points. With the intention of stimulating circulation.
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A walk through the garden | Pickens Herbalist Guild
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Local plants, local people. A walk through the garden. Jim Smith is well-known to local gardeners for his long career in the study and care of plants. As a leader in the Georgia Native Plants Society and frequent speaker on the subject, Jim has given many of us seeds to keep these local greens going. He’s invited herbalists to come and see his own garden on Wednesday, May 23rd, at 5:30 pm. Attendance is LIMITED to 10 people! Please RSVP to Crystal Merrell cdmerrell@etcmail.com. October 7, 2012 at 9:48 pm.