Found on a tea bag tag .... "The only difference between a flower and a 'weed' is a judgement." 💝

My dear husband would complain that the "lawn" didn't look good. He would spend money on landscapers to come and plant grass and fertilize the yard. A month or so later, complain that he had to mow the lawn so often. I couldn't make him understand that the more he planted grass and fertilized it, the more he had to mow it. It's not a lawn competition. He passed away last September. Since this is a very wooded area, I'm letting the moss take over. It's green and low maintenance.

Quick reference chart : Plantain 1:51 Nettles 3:50 Cleavers 5:20 Dock 6:55 Horsetail 8:32 Thank you for this great information, I’m going to plant all these ‘weeds’ in my garden, because I don’t have one! How ironic! 😅

I am on a mission to remove the term weed and encourage “thriving native plants” 😆💗

I chopped fresh plantain in a pan and barely covered it with olive oil warmed and drained for a raised thing on my husband's thigh. I'd tried poking it with a pin & it bled, no pus or anything, so it was odd. My plantain decoction applied topically made it completely go away. I put it on some non-healing tiny sores and it cleared that up, too. Currently putting it on noncancerous lipoma growths on our dog. Amazing stuff I'm a pharmacist - I've tried commercial stuff.

It upsets me as well, Terri. In fact my neighbors often laugh when I attempt to share the benefits of something they're furiously trying to eliminate from their lawn. In the meanwhile my husband loves to let the wild back into ours xx

My neighbours hate my wild garden, I use all the plants (weeds). Thank you for sharing your knowledge

I was digging up some dandelion yesterday and a guy stopped to try to get me to use his weed control company. I said "I am not weeding, I am harvesting for medicine and food". He looked at me weird and left. A neighbor walked by, asked if I was weeding, told her what I was doing and that was a half hour long conversation of her asking me for pointers. Mixed reviews but I got plenty of dandelion and lungwort and left some for the bees. Today is violet for eczema salve.

Those 2 books of yours are worth their weight in gold. Both contain such a wealth of information.

I don't think it's that people don't respect plants including weeds but these things are not taught in schools or most likely at home because people don't know themselves. Alot of medicinal remedies have been forgotten, sadly. I'm learning so much from you. Thank you very much for that. 😊

Ma'am, you are a gift from God. Thank you for all your knowledge, and God bless you!

I so love…..sleepy cats and your videos! I enjoy your sweet dogs moving around here and there. You videos comfort and calm me. Thk you! Ahna USA

Hiya Terri😊,as a child,l was taught that dock grew in tandem with nettles, because if you were stung by nettles you could just rub the effected area with a crushed dock leaf to remove both the pain and irritation from the tiny hairs on the nettles that are the source of the problem! Love your videos, J.I.M.K Mrs, Australia. 🇦🇺 ❤

God gave us these wonderful little weeds, along with cats and dogs! Shabbat Shalom Danu.

Great as usual. And whoever does ur camera work is also amazing. Cheeeeeers.

Dandelion, comfrey, watercress, rosemary and stinging nettle😋

I remember as a child, someone said to me (probably mum) that the plantain is good for small wounds to stop bleed and then we were saying this to each other (us kids) when we saw the weed while playing outside. And my parents have also abundance of daisies in garden in Spring. I love the view but dad is complaining 😁 Thank you for this wisdom you spread ❤️

Had to smile at the tough life your animals live 😀 The booklets are a wealth of knowledge .Have a good week xx

Terri, your channel is such a wealth of information and your respect and love for the plant spirits is so beautiful to see. I am just uploading an episode over on my own channel where I give a little shout-out to you while talking about Lemonbalm. Keep up the wonderful work, I am a huge fan xx

So interesting about the little daisy at the end. Here in Tasmania my lawn is covered in them in warmer weather, I never knew they can be beneficial... learn so much from your channel Terri and of course the beautiful accompanying music , which is truly beautiful, thank you

Hello Terri. Here we recognize plantain as 7 veins. Thank you for your video. See you

Jajaja. My husband throwing grass seeds and. me and my kids blowing dandelion seeds, because we love the whole plant, I share with the bees. And collect just enough roots for my coffee substitute , flowers for tea and to make jelly, leaves for my smoothies.

Dandelion is one of my favorite “weeds” such a useful herb.

Mad about Weeds here in BC, Canada's South Okanagan; studied under Master herbalist Dr. Terry Willard in 1978. Now foraging is way more fun especially as retirement ensures a free day every day! Lovely to see and hear such a great educator in 2023. Plantain is a body coolant tea, and seeds are the psylium seeds your buying needlessly! Ah, yes soon it's nettle collecting time-tips best for salads and teas-

Yes we've grown up believing lies. I'm so glad I'm learning. 😊

The plantain here in Oregon is more broad and round. They are good in salads when young, stir fries when older, and the seeds are a great source of fiber as a milled flour or sprinkled on other food. The leaves also make a great smoothie! Cleavers were growing in my little table gardens last year. I didn't use them for anything though. Thank you for the information Terri! ❤🌱

I just absolutely adore your channel. Thank you for sharing such wholesome content.

I have both of your books and want to encourage everyone to get them. They are very well written and contain loads of great information. I'll take them with me as I walk through the un-mowed areas in my yard to see what all I have growing.

Isn't it funny (and sad) how people complain they don't have enough money to buy expensive junk-vegetables in the grocery-store while their garden is full of superhealthy weeds... for free?

I adore you!I love plantain , dandelions, etc. I have made wonderful salves with plantain. I had a lawnmowing accident with my foot, and out of fear, I have decided to use grass shears and I can now get around my precious "weeds" in the garden. I see so many uses and benefits of the weeds and I wish people would grasp your mantra! Keep spreading the word! From the Scottish Highlands

Thank You from Nova Scotia. I believe I have most of these and I am thrilled to know their uses now.

I found your site at exactly the right time. I live in semi rural surroundings and have most of these 6 herbs on my doorstep but never realised their benefits. Nettles, dandelions, and the sticky ones are next to my garden fence. I chop them down to stop them growing into my yard. I dry out nettles and make tea with them but that's about it. Not any more. Thank you for your very informative videos which give us a beautiful insight into nature.

What a lovely video. Power to the weeds!

Wow!! I am elated to have stumbled on your site. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🍀🐞

Nice relaxing cat. I was a smoker for many years. Any herbs you know that could help heal the damage I have done? Nettle is good for hair as well. Thank you wise lady.

So interesting, fulfilling my great love of learning 🦋the healing plants and cultivating them!🐝

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I feel the same way. Plants are free, made by God and can't be Patented, so folks don't respect them.( I had wanted to write a book on Motherwort.) If I had known about it when younger I would have avoided many pitfalls and not have struggled so much.

I love your garden and animals and theflowers and the bees and the butterflies so relaxing and enjoyable.

It's August now but I've just watched this video. I agree with all you spoke about. I have both plantains (narrow and broad leaf) growing in abundance. Years ago I read that plantain is the BEST drawing herb we have. I have several large nettle patches growing in my garden. I depend on nettles all year round, eating young leaves in spring, making tea from dried leaves all year round. I also use nettle roots which are a specific for prostate health. I have read that the seeds are also edible and medicinal. I always remember the story about Mila Repa (a Buddhist monk) who, while living in his mountain cave, lived on nettle soup. I also have a field (and my garden) full of horsetail. I collect and dry horsetail, using the dried plant material in tea. As well I have a lot of cleavers growing in my garden, which I also use in tea. I've read that in China people eat cleavers as a vegetable. Galium aparine (cleavers or goose grass, has a number of other common names the plant is regionally known by) is a member of the bed straw family which has several wild varieties of the plant. I also have a lot of dock (both yellow and red rooted, as well as burdock -Arctium lappa - which is a super important medicine like dandelion is) growing in and around my garden. One thing to remember about dock (Rumex crispus) is to not use the root when a person is consuming caffeine (so black tea and coffee) since there are compounds in dock that will combine with caffeine elements creating an iron toxicity in the body. Strange as it is, so many people dislike all these medicinal herbs growing in their lawns and yards, spraying poison (herbicides) liberally around their homes to destroy the plants. Such a tragedy, poisoning the planet with chemicals. It is folk like yourself, teaching and passing along all this important and useful medicinal information about plants, continuing to pass along this significant plant knowledge. What modern folk don't seem to realize, often laughing about herbal medicine and medicinal plant use, that medicine is what the plant world gives us in addition to all those other wonderful aspects that we enjoy having plants in our environments. What a world it will be if humans manage to destroy a great number of the plants that grow on this planet, replacing those important medicines with monocultures and genetically engineered facsimiles (those laboratory facsimiles being produced to make the corporate world rich - the main goal of that corrupt effort). How twisted our nature has become. Over the centuries so many herbal practitioners have been murdered as witches, being labeled as dangerous and corrupt individuals. Thankfully at least some lasting herbal knowledge continues, helping us cure and mend our bodies and spirits. Thanks for sharing your important knowledge. Cheers!

This knowledge has been erased from many memories, so I am grateful for your content and the rising again of this.

A wonderful mothers day gift. The pleasure of a abundant earth to see ,we live in a desert , thanks for sharing. Horsetail is what i need. Your little books are big in quality i love mine. Thank you Lol for the perfect filming a nd music . The dogs earing green says a lot.🥰😍🐕🕊🐤🌿☘🍀🌼

Since I saw your video on plantain I've used it a fair bit! Good job we have a plentiful supply here - seed heads all over the place now, so will have a go at sprinkling it on our salads! Thank you for the additional info - we have almost all of your list - except for mare's tail. I agree, I love seeing wild flowers in the grass. I did tell my husband off for mowing the area with the lady's smock too early last year - but it has popped up in a different place this year, I'm very relieved about that!

Agreed, I stopped calling these lovely plants weeds years ago….they are indeed herbs. Thank you so much Terry for these wonderful videos. Full of inspiration and knowledge. From this Wise Womoon from the hills on North Carolina, sending love and gratitude. So grateful for your work.

I love it. I recently got stung by a bee on the foot. Immediately I chewed up some nearby plantain and put it on the area. After two minutes I removed it. No swelling redness or pain. Usually I would have had a swelling the size of a golf ball. Also add dandelion and plantain to green smoothies.

Thank you so much for clarifying some of these weeds. I have them all here in Vermont except the silver weed. Dock is very invasive here and the roots seem to grow so far down that when I dig it out, they break off and come back even thicker. God Bless and thank you for educating me as spring is just arriving here.

You missed another thing about nettles. You can place nett!e stems in a barrow full of water for a few weeks and use the water as a high nitrogen feed.

Good week, Greetings from Brazil... ♥

Dear Terri, I love all the ""weeds ""on our planet. ..they have plenty of healing properties and bring us their quiet beings whispering. ..""don't cut me off. ..""... Lovely video with the music going perfectly well with those bumblebees and butterfly. ..emotional. Big love to you.

Thank you Terri for sharing, thanks Lol for the beautiful photography of flora and fauna ,and thanks to Broc and Jazz for being such fun and just being you luv n light x

Terry, this makes me so happy to feel I'm in a lovely Irish garden. Thank you! I've finally got some nettle going on the edge of my garden here in Maine. I leave much of my garden to go wild. The "weeds" provide so much food for the pollinators especially in late fall. And yes... they have such a bad rap - and the poison that's used to control them is so dangerous to humans, creatures, and the environment.

And the dog steals the show!

Loved this video Terri, I love the way you use the Irish names for the plants along with the traditional. I have both of your weed handbooks and use them constantly. have also introduced them to fellow students on the herbal course I am doing. : ) xx

Thank you for educating people about the humblest of plants and their incredible benefits.

I love this video. A weed is just a flower/plant that someone didn't like. :) The silverweed and horsetail are herbs I knew nothing about, though I recognized them immediately. The musical interlude was wonderful, and your channel is feeding my soul. Love & light to you, and I thank you, from Nova Scotia, Canada. PS. Dandelions! Like the daisy, they are reviled and removed from lawns, but they are a lovely flower, and so beneficial.

Beautiful love all plants and I have both books thanks for sharing love you

Fabulous video! Not only is it good to be reminded of what the various weeds do for us, but I LOVE the videography! The interlude with the animals was fantastic. I love the music and the way it ended with the headshot of your dog was delightful! I laughed. Thank you both for this Sunday morning treat. Blessings to you!

Great info Terri ! I really enjoyed this video ,here our weeds are similar and different - my first most important weed is the dandelion - it is the backbone of my smoothies - salads ,wilted veg stir fry ,jelly and salve .

Dockleaf can be used to counteract the effects of nettles on the skin, if rubbed in

Really glad I found your channel, I have ancestry roots in Ireland, my father was from there and I plan on visiting one day, but moreover, I have never been any good on conventional medicines which is why I am researching plants and herbs. I am loving your channel and I also have lots of these weeds in my garden :), I have always been a bit of a witch in the kitchen and am getting into natural remedies more so now I am in my 50's. I will view my weeds differently from now on thank you and bless you!

Bought these books recently. A really handy, interesting and useful read. Thank you!

What a beautiful day in the garden! I really enjoy how you have masterfully created this video for teaching as well as deep relaxation and healing through the imagery of photography and the journey of the music guiding our steps through a beautiful garden showing how inclusivity works in our gardens inviting the unexpected and humble healing weeds into our hearts and bodies. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY (US) 💓 💗

Hiya Terri Thankyou for sharing a different view about weeds, very interesting. Enjoyed the close up of those busy pollinators they don’t care if it’s a weed etc. Blessings to you and yours Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦

I am a lover of herbs, flowers and vegetables

Thanks for sharing your wonderful knowledge! We have many of those natural plants here in Alberta, Canada. I always learn so much from your vlogs & they are very calming videos. 🤗❤️🇨🇦

❤I can't wait to try this. Thank 💞 from kalama Washington USA

Lovely video. As well as being very informative I absolutely loved the filming of all the critters, the fury and the flying ones.

It's always a good day when you upload! Sitting having lunch in the garden with this playing. Thank you for your sharing your knowledge with us :)

here in USA we have slender nettle...and they are very much like the European stinging nettles..I make nettle ale every April...it's wonderful..

Love your video I wish they taught this stuff in school. I also wish Dr.s in hospitals used these to help people have a better life.

Just found out something I have in my backyard is cleavers. My local garden friends were excited. Last year I found I had purple nettle. It's great fun learning more and you have been a great help! Hello from Oregon, USA.

Absolutely love your garden and animals and your good self

Clicked to view this very quickly! I just received S. Nettle via postal order trying to decide where to plant it. I have a ton of Salsify coming up everywhere, came out of nowhere. Impossible to stop it spreading. Guess it is nourishment in tough times. Beautiful markings on kitty! Happy family you have there. 🥰

the change in music with the bees was awesome!!!!!

Thank you for the tour, the explanation of beneficial weeds. My unforgettable experience with neddle was walking through a patch in shorts, going to the creek to fish, need I say, my legs were on fire! Last summer I had two thistle plants spring up and I just let them grow. I have LOTS of violets & I want to make a jelly with them.

Daisy's are also astringent, helps with pain, and inflammation.

Dear Danu, i Just dug Out silverweed alongside a street where i was looking for small birch seedlings and planted IT around my Pond on bare soil to Cover there the ground AS Well. I know IT from my geandmother WHO used IT for animals and Humans regularily. WE call IT: anzerine. I Love this Weed how so many. Best greetings to Ireland! Katharina

Wonderful herb garden. I need this information and like your garden too. I Love your videos too.

I decided to pop in and revisit a few of your videos to seek a better demuculant as my three-year-old and I have both been wrestling with a lingering productive cough. Thought to re-watch the weed video first as I'm also trying to finally get into our garden and within the first 5 minutes gave me exactly the information that I needed! Thank you again immensely for being such an incredible resource! I am excited do use this information to help myself and my wildlife biology students plant native, medicinal, and sustainable Gardens in our area Gardens in our area. Thank you for being such a wonderful blessing to our day! Slan!

Just planted 20 million seeds🌿🌿🌼🌼🌱🌱🪴🪴🍀🍀🍄🍄 I did the plants were narrow leaf plantain and broadleaf plantain Yarrow Mullein Golden rod Mustard Poppies Radish Strawberries Blueberries Feverfew Purslane Shepherds, purse Sheep sorrel Comfrey I travel everywhere I can to get the seeds to grow the plant to duplicate the plants again That’s just a few plants, but those are my big players coming up this year I am also getting prepared to plant highbush cranberry. It’s as tall as the tree elderberry rose hips while blue huckleberries that I could turn into hedges that are edible raspberries Marion, Barry, and many other types of berries I planted 20,000 fruit trees and nut trees this year from seed and I have about 10 to 15,000 growing I do all this on my own I don’t have help😢 But it makes me stronger just like it made you strong that’s one of the best benefits of having a garden as we get strong from doing it I invented the technique called hydrotilling. That is how I remove vegetation with just water and I can fertilize the ground and change the pH factor at the exact same time.😊 I also prefer to use grass killer that kills just grass I picked up another 2000 pounds of apples this year in my area from around 20 different varieties. I got some pears also I’m growing lemon trees when nobody said it was possible outside pomegranates can grow in your area and I’m also growing grapes and Kiwi All from seed Thank you you do realize you’re going to live forever don’t you the more videos you make the more information you put out that information travels across the whole universe you will always be remembered forever❤

Wonderful info, and beautiful camera work...you two make a good team.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom, learnt someting new🙏 Slowly my big lawn is turning into a more natural habitat. It's so rewarding and nourishing to live more in alignment with mother earth. Blessings from NZ😀

I should go out today it's a nice day after a rain everything will be washed. Love your video and shared with friends and of course as always LIKED. Thank you.

Thank you Terry for such an informative video. I have several mentioned in abudance and have been gathering for storing. Some are new to me but will have to be more mindful when I go again out and about our 3 acres to forage. Always such an enjoyable visit. In Joy

I always enjoy your videos, for the info, beautiful surroundings, the animals and the sweet serenity that comes across throughout the scenery and the music. So artfully and sensitively done. Thk you so much. I forward it to my gardening friends. 🪴🐾🐾🐾 Ahna USA

I agree with you that plants are here to benefit us. I've often thought that the cure for cancer may have existed in the Amazon jungle but has now been eradicated through cutting, burning, and destroying the plants. I'm so glad you continually remind us that many plants are truly beneficial to mankind.

Thanks so much & you live in such a Beautiful place and you are as well my roots go back to Ireland & Scotland I love both Places I’m 72 now & don’t expect I will get there in this life God Bless ❤🌺🌸🌼☀️.

Thanks Terri, a very interesting and informative video. I very much love most of the plants that most people call 'weeds', as you say they all have a medicinal use, and are often as beautiful, if not more so than the plants that are considered 'acceptable' in peoples gardens. Peace and blessings to you Terri.

Good Morning Terri ☀️. What a great way to start the day😊. Thank you for this!🌱

Thanks for your lovely video! I find all in my garden but not horstail. mayby I surch for an pharmacy or chemist, or so. That ´s all so interesting and I will collect immediatly,.... make tinctur and tea... Thanks and best wishes! Barbara from South- Germany

Just simply love your videos. So much information, beautiful with video of bees and plants an Lol’s music. Thank you

Thankyou for your knowledgeable videos. Blessings sent from Mount Gambier in South Australia

Dear Terri................wonderful and peaceful..............have a good time.....Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘,here in Germany we say.....eat 3 of the first Daisys in springtime and you never have a influenca in the year

This is very interesting about the horsetail. I am just starting to re-educate myself about what we refer to as 'weeds'. On the allotments near me they were all complaining about a horsetail invasion (they called it mare's tail, I assume it's the same thing? It certainly looked the same). How ironic because you say in this video that horsetail helps to prevent potato blight, so it would have actually been helping their crops! ? I'm learning all the time ☺️

I've heard daisy referred to as 'the aging gardeners friend'

Thank you for standing up for the weeds! My favourite weed is Herb Robert. It loves my garden and is so beautiful at the moment. The bees agree with me. Anyway I can totally recommend the Weed Handbook 1&2. I use them both all the time. A recommendation from me. X

Thank you! Great herbal standbys….and such beautiful 🎵 🌸🌸

Remind me to get some local honey next time I'm up, watching those bees, as well as your beautiful informative self 💞

you have a beautiful place there in Ireland..awesome! God bless!

Happy Mother’s Day Terri💐🌿 Yes, so much beauty and abundance. I just came across a video on how to make dandelion jam. I also just finished straining the Bay Laurel that you so graciously sent. I made an aftershave by infusing the Bay, along with Sage, Calendula, Yarrow, and Lavender in Witch Hazel…smells amazing!

This is so amazing! Thank you. My youngest daughter and I have decided to embrace our weeds this year. We are not pulling them out and we are learning them. It's so funny because we have plantain, nettle, dandelion, and the others you showed!