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Girls' Night In! Rituals for Autumn Equinox 🍂
Today marks the first day of a new season, the Autumn Equinox. The leaves here in Portland are just beginning to change from a sea of green to beautiful hues of red, orange, and yellow. This is a time when our fruitful harvests from the sunnier seasons of Spring and Summer are winding down to prepare for the chillier (also cuddle-worthy ❤) days of Winter. There is a pagan harvest festival which occurs traditionally on or around September 21st, and continues through the Full Harvest Moon on the 24th, which lands this Monday, called "Mabon." Mabon is an opportunity to...
National Clean Up Day 🌎💜
Last week The Ocean Cleanup (www.theoceancleanup.com) launched its System 001 from the San Francisco bay to travel 350 miles offshore to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage patch. The efforts of this group of scientists, engineers, researchers and computational modelers working together in unison to rid the world's oceans of plastic is MONUMENTAL and incredibly moving. Inspired by this organization, we move forward from this national holiday with great hope that we can clean up our horribly polluted planet. To do our part, the Dragon Herbarium has cut down our use of plastic by switching to an eco-friendly and...
Happy National Chocolate Milkshake Day! (Maca Mocha Mushroom Blend Recipe Included)
Today, Americans honor one of our favorite culinary creations, a captivating combo we like to call the Chocolate Milkshake! We want to wish everyone a Happy National Chocolate Milkshake Day! In celebration of this beautiful day and in dedication to the health and wellbeing of ourselves and our community, we would like to share a very special (much healthier) version of the favorite American delight! Our recipe contains a pre-preapred blend of Maca Mocha Mushroom powder from PlantSpeak Herbal LLC consisting of 14 different species of medicinal mushrooms, as well as maca, gently sweetened with cocoa powder, coconut sugar, and...
Lovely Lady Lavender
Lavandula, the genus of which our lovely lady Lavender belongs, is native to the Mediterranean Sea, southern Europe through northern and eastern Africa, as well as Middle Eastern countries to southwest Asia and southeast India, however many gardeners here in America grow lavender in well-drained soil, planters and pots. Lavender is in full bloom in Oregon this season, a wondrous event to witness! The Lavandula genus includes more than 30 species, dozens of subspecies, and hundreds of hybrids and selected cultivars(3). The different varieties of lavender range in size from about 9 inches to 3 feet tall, although some may...
Belly Health, Bitters, & The Microbiome
Modern research suggests that the population of microorganisms living within as well as on the surface of our bodies, known as the microbiome, influences our immune response, neural development, digestion, and recent research now demonstrates our mood, behavior, and food cravings as well. According to Dr. Louis Vitetta, Matthew Bambling, and Hollie Alford, authors of "The gastrointestinal tract microbiome, probiotics, and mood Inflammopharmacology," we have ten times more bacterial cells than human cells and one hundred times more types of bacterial genes than human genes! From this perspective, we are in some way more bacteria than we are human! Perhaps this is why it...
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