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Thanks for sharing these! They’re wonderful!

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Herbalist/ plant medicine maker for 40 years

Hand sewing and stitchery, mending, darning

Nutrition (beyond the USDA- worked for them and it’s all a pack of lies based on a bigger lie)

Certified midwife and family health educator

Living simply – making do; replacing disposables with reusables you can sew, crochet, knit; organizing

Household budgeting and living within your means – even if there isn’t much to live on

Recipes for wild and foraged foods like acorns, stinging nettles, dandelion, poke (simple ones; I don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen)

English teacher for many years – can help you help your kids; also special ed

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The minimum of $600 for which you would receive a 1099 has been suspended until tax time for 2023 income However, the government expects us all to be good citizens and claim any digital or cash income we have made throughout the 2022 year. But no, companies don’t send a 1099 unless you have had 200 transactions AND $20,000 income through them in 2022.

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About half an hour to prep and cook. We eat very simply and sometimes it’s just 5-10 minutes chopping and letting it cook (soups and stews). Even if we have steak, it doesn’t take long.

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You don’t get the whole story with food labels even before GMO and synthetic food came along. The USDA nutrition labels are based on the raw ingredients, not the processed foods. Cooking/processing changes food. Cooked ingredients often have lost all of their vitamin C, although cooked greens’ vitamin A actually increases. There’s no use looking at labels. Best to just eat real food. 🍎🍓🍳🥦

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I know you make a lot of your own ingredients. Do you also ferment the wine yourself? That would likely also increase potency of the medicinal mixture due to the wine’s beneficial constituents.

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I am so intrigued by the honey and wine combination. I’ve heard you mention it in your videos. In my mind it brings an artful quality to the medicine. 😍 How lovely!

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I love what you said about intention! Working with plants isn’t just about the “numbers”. While I am saying it’s good to know which plants are most amenable to drying for tincturing due to its affect on alcohol soluble constituents, plants are not entirely “dead” when dried and our connection with them is incredibly significant when working with them to create medicines. Medicines don’t “cure” they support and guide our own biological processes. In that respect, they are allies. Having a sweet intention when using either fresh or dried material enhances the relationship we have with that living thing and our willingness to be receptive to their supportive elements.

It is always my hope that people will take a scientific approach to medicine, while still honoring the traditional. We all know that just because someone says it’s good for you, that doesn’t mean it is. I find the sharing of ideas and information very thought provoking as I tend to think logically and scientifically (being autistic). Some people find it abrasive. I don’t mean for it to be, so I hope you’ll pardon my speech; I just tend to be very plain-speaking and forget to bring emotion awareness into it. Thanks for bringing in that deeply important factor that is hard to measure but absolutely impacts healing in a big way – intention.

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I certainly am glad you have been getting effective results from making medicines from dried plant material, but it isn’t an opinion that changes to medicinal and nutritive constituents render most green plants unsuitable for certain preparations when dried. There is scientific evidence for this. Either the medicinal qualities are there or they aren’t and, like I said, while it’s a most common occurrence that drying plants alters the chemical composition of the plant material that’s not an absolute across-the-board occurrence. Comfrey retains its medicinal qualities upon drying. But most leafy green plants do not retain all of theirs. I just want to be clear that my saying that is not an opinion.

You may well be experiencing benefits because the particular constituents you need for your uses have not been affected. But most plants bestow many benefits (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, diuretic, etc.) and it could be that some of them have been lost but the ones you happened to want have not. That, of course, is just my best logical guess.

I don’t mean to be argumentative. I just tend to go for the most scientific proof we may have – if we have it – to support medicine making in the most knowledgable way possible. Of course, plants may be dried and preserved in many ways, but none of them makes them equally effective for all preparation methods.

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Ask away, anytime! It’s taken me a lifetime to learn all this and I’m still learning new things.

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Well, as a preservation method, it sounds a lot like drying in the result overall. But most plants are so easily air dried, I don’t think I’d do it, unless I was doing crop-loads on a commercial scale maybe.

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Now for tea or infusions or decoctions, drying is just fine. I don’t know anything about freeze-drying, personally, but air drying or curing is fine. Freezing sliced mushrooms and berries works great. But I’m not sure if freezing greens would be a good idea, although I do have white pine needles in my freezer right now, but they won’t be soggy or weird like a green leafy thing might be.

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Thank you.

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My daughter is a vet tech. You guys do wonders for those little furbabies!