• Writing Update

    A Friday Writing Update Post

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  • Nettle

    Nettle

    Nettle, aka Stinging Nettles, Urtica dioica, is probably one of the most nutritious herbs you can get your hands on…but you don’t want to actually touch it. Not barehanded, anyway. Per the name, Stinging Nettle, this plant does actually bite. But even the painful part of her can be medicinal. Her name comes from the

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  • Writing Update

    A Friday Writing Update Post

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  • A Friday Writing Update Post

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  • Passionflower

    Passionflower

    Passionflower, aka Maypop, or Passiflora incarnata, is a relatively common plant that grows wild in sunny fields and unkempt yards in the southern United States and up the Eastern Coast and surrounding states. If it doesn’t grow wild around you, there is a possibility that you can find a potted plant at a specialty nursery. Passionflower

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  • Reishi Mushrooms

    Reishi Mushrooms

    Reishi Mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, are a staple in Traditional Chinese Medicine. But guess what? I found them in my backyard in East Texas. Not many of them, but they are there. You can’t find as much about these wonderful little fungi as easily as you can about more common herbal remedies, but I wouldn’t be

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  • I Prefer ‘Gardener’ Over ‘Pantser’

    I’m taking this week to do a final read-through of a client’s manuscript, and then I will get back to working on the prequel to Blood for Honor, ‘The Wild Assault.’ I have a few things I want to change in the first five chapters, which will probably extend it to six chapters and move

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  • Mullein

    Mullein

    Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, is one of the best plants you can find in the wild. Known as “nature’s toilet paper,” the soft leaves can not only be used as sanitary wipes when in the woods, but the plant is also medicinal! Also known as Aaron’s Rod because of the staff-life flower stalk. Great (Common) Mullein

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  • Red Clover

    Red Clover

    There are many clover varieties, the most common being white, red, and crimson. Today, I want to talk about Red Clover, Trifolium pratense. It is most commonly known as a foraging crop for livestock and gardening, as it fixes nitrogen in the soil. But you know, if I am doing a post on it, this

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