😊Another plant i'll look into might be a nice addition, thanks take care👍🌳

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Mmmm I'll have to try it sometime!

Sumac drinks are very refreshing! I like to collect mine 5-7 days after a rain. My sister collects the seed for spice giving a nice lemon-pepper flavor

That looks so refreshing! I like your method of drying first before using. I had tried a fresh 'lemonade' tea with sumac that was questionable with the critters that were in it! So many! The hairs were very lemony but my sumac must have been very mature. Looking forward to seeing how else to process them...getting the hairs separate from the seeds...

One of the best self-heal videos! Thank you

Excellent

I am from India..can I grow self heal here..

How can get and how much is that?

Listen to your body, nap/rest is always good.

I love the saying that you used at the beginning of the video. It is so true! I have seen this happen so many times in my life. Also, if there are pests or something, and I'm down and frustrated after working so hard on the gardening, something really good seems to happen after that, like a certain flower will bloom that I've been waiting on, or some new vegetable I'm trying to grow will look fabulous and produce fruit, and then I'm super grateful about it. I just try to think of the good things over the bad. Anyway, I hope you're feeling better and i'm sorry you had a flare up. By the way, do those sweet little tuxedo kitties help keep your rabbit and mouse population down? I've got a tuxedo named Beau. He even catches moles, just not the ones I need him to. I wish he'd get the one in the garden. 😂 Ugh! And then I've got deer trying to eat my apples off of my apple trees. The struggle is real!

I undertand your frustration with your health situation. I used to get migraines that put me in a dark, quiet room for 2 days at least and were nauseating. And I always felt like those days were lost for me. My migraines were always in the sinuses and I learned my triggers. One I outgrew 😂 (my period). Lack of or poor sleeping, and barometric pressure changes. I get them less because I also drink herbal teas. A sleep blend at night. And I actually made an allergy blend for my husband but it seems to help me with getting through the barometric pressure changes by tamping it down to a shadow headache instead of full blown one. You mention sun triggers you, but as a nurse, i wonder if you are getting enough Vitamin D. Vitamin D boosts the immune system, which may sound bad for you, but it prevents the production of cytokines which cause inflammation. Cytokine storm is the massive body inflammation found when a person's immune system is out of whack. Also, I was once diagnose with Polymyalgia Rheumatica, also an autoimmune disorder similar to fibromyalgia. I also manage with diet, cutting out sugars (I now grow stevia), and I am about to start a new tea blend for inflammation. My main ingredients are white willow bark and cat's claw. Sounds like you have quite a bit of inflammation going on which triggers the immune system which then attacks your healthy tissue. So yes diet, exercise and something to tamp down the inflammatory response is essential. Spirituality plays a big role for me in keeping my stress levels down. I talk to God all the time. When things heat up, i just ask him to walk with me, or take the wheel.

Ahhhh, your rain!!! I havent seen rain like that since April. This spring, I planted lettuce and spinach in baskets and had them against the fence inside the garden. I was planning on having a salad for a family dinner and went to harvest and every basket lioked like your swiss chard. A deer leaned over the fence and chomped every single one. I also deal with the bugs and refuse to put anything on my plants. I lost most of my brassicas to cabbage moth worms. I did salvage some cabbage but had to peel back a lot of layers to get to something that i could use. I patrol for hornworms, squash bug eggs and squash vine borers. I'm curious, were those yellow eggs on the leaf the mexican bean beetle? Darn bright yellow worms shorten my bean harvest.

WOW! Do you really live in such beautiful, lush surroundings...wildlife and all? I love your presentation it leaves me feeling much calmer and appreciative of all the herbs you point out. Thank you for all your hard work. Keep it up😄

Hi, I have a long-term condition so have lots of advice for what you are going through. Be kind to yourself. You have no reason to feel guilt for needing rest. Adapt to what you're experiencing. Don't be headstrong it will make things worse. Accept how you feel then work with what energy you have without overdoing it. You may need to stop cropping to not 'have to be responsible' to not consume energy you don't have. Grow a larger variety of species in a way that staggers harvesting over time. This will also help with reducing insect attack. What I did when I was in your position was first buy a bunch of seeds to grow a large variety of species and watched what species didn't get attacked and grew them. I noticed your response to your condition is for symptoms this won't do anything to heal you. Look into fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein Barr virus which often precedes CFS, and adrenal fatigue. As for herbs, look into adaptogens: astragalus, licorice, American ginseng, ginseng if you get any of quality, eleuthero, schisandra, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and Condonopsis pilosula you will need them to reduce/stop the anxiousness. Also, look into herbs that mend the digestive tract: agrimony, yarrow, shepherd's purse, and plantain. As you look into those conditions mentioned you will read of other useful herbs as well. Because your health is low you may need to see a herbalist to help, as this is a lot of study to get things right. Oh, I remembered you mentioning in another video that your husband gets sick in winter from his work. The adaptogens that support the immune system will help with preventing that.

i'm in my seventies in great health the only thing that gives me any trouble is any treated water i only drink non treated water spring or well water the stuff they put in water will kill you, good luck take care thanks again for your channel😊💕👍

God says that he put the herbs on the earth to heal us.

Thank you for going over these growing strategies. Gardening is inspiration, experimentation, learning and rewards. The insects, animals and vegetation (for instance my 80' red oaks) in my area of Vermont have been guiding me over the 20 years I've lived here towards what I can or cannot grow and harvest sustainably. And what I must compete for in order to harvest or to enjoy in bloom. Our communities need to preserve green spaces (there's far too much development going on here!) for folks to forage for these common native plants. Best wishes <3

Thank you for all your very valuable information.

Just last week I started drinking 3 teaspoons of dried dandelion leaves in 1 cup of boiling water infused for 15 minutes each day. Since that first drink my energy level has been exceptional with no other explanation. I wake up mornings bright and ready to go. I buy loose herbs from Mud Brick Herb Cottage in Queensland, Australia where I live. I heard on a video dandelion leaves are very good for the Vegas nerve and their yellow flowers have lutein which is good for our eyesight.

Can you do virginia buttonweed?? All the info I can find is about getting rid of it... but I know for a fact that I've seen forums mention benefits of buttonweed, but that was before I "woke-up" and became a granola😂... I'm never going back!

Made a cup of calendula tea this morning using primarily stems leaves and then several flowers per advice from this video and absolutely made any day! Thanks so much :)

Last year, I searched and searched for Mullien and only found some along the roadside. I gave up searching and figured, if I absolutely needed it I knew where it would be since they were all 1st year plants. I wasnt thrilled with their location although we are country roads here. Then lo and behold, late autumn, I saw some growing on my property. I harvested some leaves then, and this year, I have found a ton of 2nd year plants. We are overrun with Kudzu so I figure it must have covered last year's plants. You are fortunate, your husband is wise enough to recognize what was helpful for him. Mine, not so much. I made up a tea blend with mullien, stinging nettle, and purple dead nettle, as an allergy blend. I also added licorice root to give it a sweeter flavor. He started drinking it, I think because it was here and he doesnt care for coffee in the morning. Plus I had made it up into little tea bags using oragami with coffee filters. All spring he had no allergy symptoms, although he usually is plagued with seasonal allergies. I mentioned it might be the tea. He wouldnt acknowledge that, and for some reason he bought some tea bags from the store and started drinking that. And about 2 weeks later.. ..BOOM..... seasonal allergies kick in. I mention perhaps because he wasnt drinking my tea. He won't acknowledge that. But my hubby is absolutely addicted to Big Pharma and the medical industry. So there is that.

Been growing this for a year! So very excited. Thanks for sharing more info.

This plant is not only pretty it has some nice healing properties. I take the seeds when they have dried and spread them along the sides of the gravel camp road here. One plant has SOOO many seeds! Another great video!

my list of things to try is getting longer, most of the plants you talk about are growing here, i'm looking at my lawn in a whole new light😊💕🌱🌱🌱

Wow! I've never even heard of Mullein until now!

Dandelion Root hot chocklend obaj like more coffe.

It's been super hot!