Hi Eimear, hi everyone. I live in Parkes NSW Australia. I use common mallow and purslane in our day to day cooking. I pickle the purslane or dry it and have it fresh or in stir fry. I eat the mallow fresh but mostly dry it and crush it to thicken stews. Both are super foods. They are considered weeds here. There are also dandelion and thistle, dock, wood sorrel, which I intend to learn how to use next season. I'd love information on how to turn kurrajong seeds into flat bread, but so far I haven't found the information or met anyone with the skills. Bull rush contain gluten, so I can't have that. I only started learning this year, so I'm sure the list will grow with time. Thank you for the story. Bright blessings to you all.
Also a good way to ask your body what it needs is to stand, holding the food in your hand, close your eyes and focus. You will usually lean forward which means you need it, or backwards, which means you don't at that point in time.
Beautiful Eimear, thank you for another lovely story and talk. I couldn't select one plant in particular, as plants and foraging have for so long been integral to my path and life, each has their place, purpose and time. I will though that the scent Honeysuckle and of apple blossom draw me in and lift me, like the smell of pie in old cartoons I gravitate towards them :)
Thank you, although I missed this live, I thoroughly enjoyed your story and conversation about herbs. Just yesterday I had red clover tea for the first time because the plant called out to me. I can still taste and smell the essence of it a day later. I also woke this morning with a sense of feeling attuned to myself in a way I hadn’t been before. I’m writing from Nova Scotia by the way. Our season is a little behind due to an always late and long spring. Just when I heard you calling out all the names of herbs that people had commented on, the plantain jumped into my mind in full colour. I think I will try that for tea next. Hopefully it works as a tea. Blessings.
Toward the end you expressed a touch of regret that you didn't include a meditation because you went on with your story too long. You have an incredible skill at story-telling. Perhaps that can be your unique offering to Tea with a Druid. Philip had a gift with guided meditations, and that was his unique offering. We all have gifts unique to us that we are able to offer the world. Thank you for sharing your gift.
I'm in Bangkok City. This area obviously sports a lot of lemongrass and ginseng, but I haven't seen these in the wild. I keep seeing a Robinia tree with yellow blossoms. It seems to keep blossoming incessantly.
an exceptional story by any standard, i am really interested in learning more about herb and plant lore especially for healing purposes. please keep it going i would like to learn much more about this subject. please tell us more about the uses of the different herbs. thank you.
Is honeysuckle not safe? I have honeysuckle tea I got from a Korean supermarket. Apparently it’s used as medicine in Chinese herbalism to treat most health upsets. The tea is a powder mix of sugar and the herb. It’s delicious. Quite similar to chamomile
Late in listening, but I seem to be drawn to sage. The Wyoming kind which is a marvelous anti fungal, but the scent makes me happy. Thank you for the wonderful tale! I’ve often wished to hear stories of Ireland, and the way you tell them I feel like I am part of the story. What a wonderful gift you have! Thank you again.
Oh my goodness, I love this story! You're such a great story teller Eimear. I'm not one to sit still very well, but your stories are enchanting. This reminds me of the Cherokee story of the origin of herbal medicine, in which humans had all herbal knowledge but because of their bad behavior, some of that knowledge was taken away from them...Similar in that we don't now know all the things plants can do... And I am pleased to hear that you have a background in herbalism. I do as well. I'm currently an Ovate, and I love the concept of working metaphysically rather than physically with herbs. So much more to learn on that level! Thank you for your lovely stories.
I have Rosemary which I place on my altar with Danu and Cerridwen. I give a sprig to each one in gratitude and for remembrance of the Druid wisdom. /|\
Thank you so much 💐
Very good story telling and recommended actions with the herbs! Thank you!
I enjoyed that so much. Old stories and herbal cures. Magic. Thank you Eimear.
Many blessings to you. So lovely to listen to you. 😊
Hi Eimear, hi everyone. I live in Parkes NSW Australia. I use common mallow and purslane in our day to day cooking. I pickle the purslane or dry it and have it fresh or in stir fry. I eat the mallow fresh but mostly dry it and crush it to thicken stews. Both are super foods. They are considered weeds here. There are also dandelion and thistle, dock, wood sorrel, which I intend to learn how to use next season. I'd love information on how to turn kurrajong seeds into flat bread, but so far I haven't found the information or met anyone with the skills. Bull rush contain gluten, so I can't have that. I only started learning this year, so I'm sure the list will grow with time. Thank you for the story. Bright blessings to you all.
And I have more trees than people.
Also a good way to ask your body what it needs is to stand, holding the food in your hand, close your eyes and focus. You will usually lean forward which means you need it, or backwards, which means you don't at that point in time.
"I'm not a very tidy person" gurl I feel you 😂
Yay more stories!!!
Beautiful Eimear, thank you for another lovely story and talk. I couldn't select one plant in particular, as plants and foraging have for so long been integral to my path and life, each has their place, purpose and time. I will though that the scent Honeysuckle and of apple blossom draw me in and lift me, like the smell of pie in old cartoons I gravitate towards them :)
Thank you, although I missed this live, I thoroughly enjoyed your story and conversation about herbs. Just yesterday I had red clover tea for the first time because the plant called out to me. I can still taste and smell the essence of it a day later. I also woke this morning with a sense of feeling attuned to myself in a way I hadn’t been before. I’m writing from Nova Scotia by the way. Our season is a little behind due to an always late and long spring. Just when I heard you calling out all the names of herbs that people had commented on, the plantain jumped into my mind in full colour. I think I will try that for tea next. Hopefully it works as a tea. Blessings.
hi from south australia
Toward the end you expressed a touch of regret that you didn't include a meditation because you went on with your story too long. You have an incredible skill at story-telling. Perhaps that can be your unique offering to Tea with a Druid. Philip had a gift with guided meditations, and that was his unique offering. We all have gifts unique to us that we are able to offer the world. Thank you for sharing your gift.
Hello from Davis, California
Our union with plants is so vitally important on many levels.
I'm in Bangkok City. This area obviously sports a lot of lemongrass and ginseng, but I haven't seen these in the wild. I keep seeing a Robinia tree with yellow blossoms. It seems to keep blossoming incessantly.
an exceptional story by any standard, i am really interested in learning more about herb and plant lore especially for healing purposes. please keep it going i would like to learn much more about this subject. please tell us more about the uses of the different herbs. thank you.
Is honeysuckle not safe? I have honeysuckle tea I got from a Korean supermarket. Apparently it’s used as medicine in Chinese herbalism to treat most health upsets. The tea is a powder mix of sugar and the herb. It’s delicious. Quite similar to chamomile
Late in listening, but I seem to be drawn to sage. The Wyoming kind which is a marvelous anti fungal, but the scent makes me happy. Thank you for the wonderful tale! I’ve often wished to hear stories of Ireland, and the way you tell them I feel like I am part of the story. What a wonderful gift you have! Thank you again.
what would be something , Eimear and Damh doing an album of stories together !
Oooh yes it would! Let him get the 4th Branch of the Mabinogi done first though...
Ricardo from spain
Oh my goodness, I love this story! You're such a great story teller Eimear. I'm not one to sit still very well, but your stories are enchanting. This reminds me of the Cherokee story of the origin of herbal medicine, in which humans had all herbal knowledge but because of their bad behavior, some of that knowledge was taken away from them...Similar in that we don't now know all the things plants can do...
And I am pleased to hear that you have a background in herbalism. I do as well. I'm currently an Ovate, and I love the concept of working metaphysically rather than physically with herbs. So much more to learn on that level! Thank you for your lovely stories.
I have Rosemary which I place on my altar with Danu and Cerridwen. I give a sprig to each one in gratitude and for remembrance of the Druid wisdom. /|\
Dandelion!!!