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A fine-feathered flock of garden helpers. By scratching and pecking, chickens till the soil, and they also fertilize it with their poops.


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I wasn’t sure I’d get chickens again.
The first time we tried to raise a flock, I lost my favorite feathered friend when she was only 8 weeks old and then the rest of the flock shortly thereafter to predators.
This was all before they’d even started laying eggs.

When asked to describe an herbal family legacy passed down over generations, this writer digs deep to find chamomile tea hiding behind the Nyquil.


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Lisa Brunette of the Brunette Gardens Substack interviews registered herbalist Sarah Donoghue of The Herbalist's Diary on what it's like to practice herbal medicine in the United Kingdom.


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It was highly ironic to have been positioned as the one who can somehow easily go home again, as the idea of “home” for me has always been loaded and complicated. As I told Stephanie on our video call to plan this week’s collaboration, moving back to this place I have called “home” has been in many ways extraordinarily difficult, and I sometimes think I was crazy to do it at all.


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The author shares a personal story of a year in which dying seems to be a prevailing theme. But in the end, nature gently provides sweet signs of life, even in winter.


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