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Morgan Botanicals Herbal CSA

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Wednesday January 25, 2012   -   By Jessica

  Morgan Botanicals is very excited to announce our new Herbal CSA Memberships! Beginning this year we are offering the opportunity for local and not so local to be a part of our new monthly herbal medicines program. We have created an Herbal CSA...

Fresh, New Items From the Farm :)

Blog: Texas Herb Company   -   Thursday January 19, 2012   -   By Petra

Greetings to Everyone :0 ) What a beautiful day it is. The weather here in Texas is quite warm for this time of year which makes it great to get some mid harvesting done on our herbs since we had such a drought this summer. I added fresh new...

Oh Goodie! New Herbal Additions

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Saturday December 03, 2011   -   By Jessica

I'm thrilled to finally be adding some new herbals to the website that I spent all Spring, Summer and Fall growing, loving, tickling, singing too, harvesting and now are ready to be shared!    Even though I had to leave behind my ever so loved...

More Mullein Please!

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Friday April 08, 2011   -   By Jessica

Since antiquity, mankind has used the velvety mullein plant for many purposes. From Roman times, the stem- stripped of the leaves and flowers and dipped in tallow- was carried as a torch in religious processions. Why not make a giant torch eh? Well, they...

Absinthe: It's Just A Pretty Way Of Saying Wormwoo...

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Tuesday March 29, 2011   -   By Jessica

“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world, what difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset.” - Oscar Wilde I tend to have interest in anything historical and/or herb related and I'm a great fan of herbal liqures, wines,...

COMFREY

Blog: Spices and Herbs by Elaynn   -   Saturday March 05, 2011   -   By Elaynn

Comfrey is of the borage family and is a wide type of plant that has pretty pink, white,blue, even yellow flowers. Years ago people used to use this internally for lung disorders, including tuberculosis. Many people  view comfrey as some type of a...

Miso Happy Broth

Blog: Cookus Interruptus   -   Thursday February 24, 2011   -   By Cynthia

(Cynthia answers the call) Taking the time to allow land and sea vegetables to infuse a soup stock with their nutrients creates a powerful soup.  The probiotics in the miso make it easy to digest too.  For printable recipe or to watch the video, ...

Medicinal Ginger Tea

Blog: Cookus Interruptus   -   Friday February 11, 2011   -   By Cynthia

(Jane measures thumbs) Cookus goes therapeutic.  Jane shows you how to make this simple strong tea that will get your stagnation flowing. Here's how ( click here ).

Wanna See What I Do Behind The Scenes?

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Tuesday January 25, 2011   -   By Jessica

If you'd like to take a peek at some of the stuff I do, like my garden, wild-crafting, my workshop, product making, or keep up on sales and updates for Morgan Botanicals, you can find it all on facebook. This is where I post all my pictures~ Come check it out!...

Papaya: More Than Just A Digestive Enzyme

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Tuesday January 18, 2011   -   By Jessica

  The papaya has been regarded as one of the most valuable of tropical fruits and was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerian classic cultures, but is native to the tropics of the Americas. Christopher...

Milk Thistle: Food and Medicine

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Tuesday January 04, 2011   -   By Jessica

Milk thistle is one of my favorite plants, but then again I am drawn to any of the thistles. Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the Asteraceae family. These prickles...

Beauty and the Beet

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Wednesday December 22, 2010   -   By Jessica

The beet ( Beta vulgaris) ;  is probably the best known and most popular beet. Most have seen or grown the basic red or purple root vegetable known as the beetroot or garden beet, but there are other varieties such as sugar beets, sea beets, and spinach...

Eat The Clay: Bentonite

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Wednesday December 08, 2010   -   By Jessica

The use of medicinal clay in folk medicine goes way back to prehistoric times and was first recorded in ancient Mesopotamia. The indigenous peoples around the world still use a wide variety of clays for medicinal purposes - primarily for external applications,...

Are you ready for THIS?

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Sunday May 09, 2010   -   By Mary

Louis Pasteur said that fortune only favors the prepared mind and some of the foods and medicines and other useful things that we harvest and grow might take some preparation.  Not only in the kitchen, but in your mind.  It may seem strange at first...

Are you ready for THIS?

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Sunday May 09, 2010   -   By Mary

Louis Pasteur said that fortune only favors the prepared mind and some of the foods and medicines and other useful things that we harvest and grow might take some preparation.  Not only in the kitchen, but in your mind.  It may seem strange at first...

What's With All The "Worts"

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Friday March 26, 2010   -   By Jessica

  So what's with all these weird names with the suffix "wort" like St. John's Wort, Mugwort, Birthwort, Lungwort and so on? Well, "wort" derives from the Old English wyrt, which simply meant plant. The word was used in the...

Horsetail -The Healing Stems

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Tuesday July 28, 2009   -   By Jessica

  I am particularly lucky to have Horsetail growing in abundance in my area. It's rarely cultivated since it is difficult to eradicate once established, but if you plant it in buckets to prevent it from spreading, you can successfully grow a small crop....

Plain Plantain. Or Is It?

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Monday June 08, 2009   -   By Jessica

I love seeing little herb gardens of plantain growing in the cracks of people's driveways. These "weeds" are far too often plucked out (just like dandelions) but I have my hopes. Do you ever notice how Mother Nature plops down herbs in the most...

Cornsilk and Its Medicinal Effect

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Monday May 18, 2009   -   By Jessica

Corn silk ( Zea mays ) is a great herbal remedy for acute inflammation and irritation of the genito-urinary system, such as cystitis, urethritis and prostatitis. It is especially useful in treating inflammation caused by bacterial infection and its volatile...

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