Wellness — Botanicals

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four benefits of spending time with plants and garden and in nature

4 Benefits of Spending Time with Plants

Plant Care is Self Care isn’t just a hashtag or trend, it’s an ongoing wellness program. We have spent most of our human existence living outdoors, evolving in symbiosis with the Earth. To our ancestors spent much of their existence outdoors with plant life as a constant in their visual field. Plants meant survival. When we surround ourselves with plants indoors, we are sending signals to our brain that everything will be ok, we can make it through another day. 

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Wild Food, Magnolias

Wild Food, Magnolias

Our favorite way to incorporate this ancient medicine into our lives is by eating the flowers. They are thick and fleshy, similar to a rose petal with even more bite. Their flavor is reminiscent of ginger and cardamom and they are delicious in many different types of dishes.

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how soil health benefits your overall well being garden therapy

How soil health affects your health

It's time to slow down. Everything in Nature is telling us this. The days are getting shorter and colder, the trees are shedding their leaves, back to the Earth to renew and regenerate the soil...

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Celebrating Love: Nature's Aphrodisiacs

Celebrating Love: Nature's Aphrodisiacs

Nature lovers welcome to the sensual side of plant life.  The word aphrodisiac from the Greek goddess Aphrodite, goddess of love, passion, fertility, beauty, and sexual pleasure. Let's learn how our natural world shares these gifts from root to leaf to flower to seed, from avocado trees to passionflower, discover the sexy side of plant life!

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