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Lady Lorax Herbal Apothecary, Loon Lake, WA (2025)

12/29/2024

These packets will be the first seeds of the 2025 growing season 🌱🌿🪴

12/29/2024

Over all, the 2024 growing season drug me through the wringer. We were in a drought, we rely on a well for our household so I actually ran it dry on several occasions (A big nono!!) My wonderful husband worked extra hard to build this fence that brought our growing space to nearly 4k sq ft but that also meant our funds were stretched to the max. I also spent 2024 working part time so I had less time to spend doing garden things, this year I will also be working (potentially more hours even). I have decided that this page is something I want to put more energy into but honestly we'll see how much time that actually amounts to😅 If you are just joining me or maybe you've been wondering what I've been up to, I'm glad you're here with me

💞 please enjoy some highlights from 2024 garden

12/29/2024

I just can't help it, I sorted through all my seeds and I've started planning (just a little) 😅

What's your seed storage look like? I've seen binders and they look so convenient! This is what I call a "garden gremlin" method, you might be surprised to learn that it actually is organized in there!

12/28/2024

💕I'm back and energized after a hiatus 💕

I am looking forward to the future of growing plants, learning every day, and taking whoever wants to come along with me🥰

Enjoy this photo I took of the garden today😘

08/09/2023

Big howdy to SNOWBERRY
Symphoricarpos Albus is the variety that grows on my property but there are actually 15 varieties of this fruit bearing shrub. 3-9 ft tall on average this bush with oval opposite arranged leaves, small pink flowers, and white clustered berries is native to northern and central America. It is high in saponins which is a chemical that aids in foaming action in soaps, the indigenous peoples of this area knew that and used it to wash their hair and body, even as an eye wash if someone had a minor infection. Because saponins aren't well absorbed by our bodies it is considered poisonous and there have been reports of children being poisoned and even dying from ingesting these berries. The roots have been reported to have been used by indigenous peoples to help stomach disorders, and a tea from the twigs was used to help fever. It was also used to hunt fish as the berries were mashed and thrown into a body of water the saponins would stun or even kill fish. They took the ripe snowberries as a sign that salmon would be coming through the river at that time. Although our bodies cannot process saponins some animals are not affected and even rely on these berries as a food source through winter; Deer, big horn sheep, grouse, and Robin to name just a few. Sphinx moth larvae are also reliant on the leaves for nourishment.

08/04/2023

Let's talk about WILD LETTUCE

Lactuca Serriola is the example I am showing but actually there are three types of wild lettuce that can be used in the same way and have the same effects! Also called Milk thistle and o***m lettuce, Lactuca Serriola has serrated leaves in an alternating pattern up the stem of the plant, a strip of spikes along the center spine of the leaf and produces a milky "latex" that drips from the plant when a stem or leaf is broken (similar to dandelion) the latex holds all the healing power in the plant. It has small yellow flowers similar to dandelion and the seeds look like dandelion as well, just a tall, spiky, branched out version😅 Native Americans used this plant to ease pain, treat coughs, induce sleep, even treat problems in the urinary tract! I only recently began working with this plant but it's reputation preceded it, it is very sought after as a powerful form of pain management. I made a tincture of this plant and can say that it worked very well for my back pain! It can also be used as a tea, dry the leaves and steep in warm water, I also started with dry leaves when I made my tincture.

Always do your own research when working with foraged plants, never pick anything you cant positively ID✨

🛑This plant should not be used by children, breastfeeding women, people under the influence of sedatives (including alcohol or opioids) or people taking antihistamines. It should also not be used by someone with a latex allergy!🛑

🚧This plant should be used with great caution as it has nasty side effects and can even cause death. 🚧

08/03/2023

Garden thread✨✨
Post pictures of your garden below!

08/03/2023

Here's a bit about me! Hi I'm Courtney 🥰 I'm 28, a mother to two sons, and a wife to my hard working husband✨ I'm local to Loon Lake WA, my family lives on 10 acres of mostly wooded land and we have a little spring fed pond. We moved from western WA in June of 2020 and feel truly at home here💕

I have always been a plant lover, I grew up in the gardens of my grandparents eating fresh peas and tomatoes and cucumber. My grandma once told me about Willow bark being comparable to Tylenol, she would let her horses eat some of the leaves to help them heal if they got hurt. I grew an apple tree from a seed of an apple I ate when I was 10 without anyone knowing until I had planted it in a pot, but I had to leave it when my mom divorced her first husband (a willing sacrifice to leave that situation). Through high school i excelled in agricultural science and I learned a lot in biology (my grades never reflected that because i refused to do busy work). I remember spending a lot of my childhood learning about plants and animals in my spare time while my classmates got together to hang out or did sports or dance I would be in my room reading or watching national geographic or in our yard or the forest that backed our property. I spent a lot of summers picking salmon berries and red huckleberries and running barefoot through the forest. Then in late high school i slipped away from plants and fell into a pretty dark time in my life.
After my second son was born in 2019 it felt like I reawakened to my dreams and hobbies again and I found my way back to plants. I started researching what was growing in my yard and how I could use it, I still do this :) now my boys join me and we all learn together🥰 In 2019 I had a container garden and it moved with us in 2020 when we came here. 2021 I had my very first in ground garden but unfortunately I didn't pick the best spot so I moved it last year to where it is now, this year is my best garden yet I'm very proud of it and I know that next year is going to be even better🥰💕
My children are a huge driving force behind everything I do, I want to learn about every plant and how to use it so I can teach them and they can be less reliant on the health care system. I want to grow and preserve our own food so we can be less reliant on the grocery store and know exactly what we are consuming. I am following my calling so my children have the drive to follow theirs someday. Everything I do is with their best interest in mind💕

I will not do everything perfect, or maybe even anything perfect, but I'm going to do it anyway because failing is learning and I fully believe that when you stop learning you stop growing and when you stop growing your end is just around the corner.

08/03/2023

MULLEIN
This plant is native to the pnw, thrives in poor soil and was called "white man's footprint" by some native Americans because it is prolific in disturbed soil. The tiny seeds can lay in wait to be tilled up to the surface for years and still germinate. It is biennial which means it has two stages of life that it completes over two years. The first year it grows as a rosette and second year it grows into a tall stalk and produces flowers and seeds. It has incredibly soft leaves and it's great in a pinch for toilet paper while camping or hiking😅😂 Common folk medicine uses for this plant include smoking dried leaves to improve lung health, making a tea from the leaves to improve lung health (move mucus out of the lungs) the flowers can be collected and infused into oil as they bloom to make a powerful earache remedy. I have personally used the leaves in a smoking blend and as a tea to help my lungs clear last year when there were really terrible wild fires near us. I also used it to help get over a nasty chest cold as well as in a steam bath.

Show us your mullein! Have you used it?

08/03/2023

Meet COMFREY

Comfrey is such a valuable plant in the garden and in the Apothecary, it has a deep tap root that reaches further down into the soil than most other plants giving it access to minerals other plants won't be able to get to. It brings those minerals up into it's leaves and when the leaves die off (or are picked and placed on the soil as a mulch) those minerals are deposited back into the top of the soil :) you can make your very own organic fertilizer by fermenting ripped up Comfrey leaves in a bucket of water for a couple weeks and using the liquid it is very powerful and I use it in my own garden. I also feed the leaves to our ducks and goats! A common name for Comfrey is "knit-bone" because it can be used topically to heal minor fractures, abrasions, and bruises! To use it topically I rip up and muddle the leaves and mix them with coconut oil or psyllium husk and water, add it to the wound or strain and wrap with a bandage, it should be changed every day to keep it fresh. One thing you never want to use Comfrey for is for deep lacerations and puncture wounds, it can heal the outermost part of the wound and seal in bacteria or infection and lead to something much worse. It is not recommended to take comfrey internally for long periods or in large amounts (ingest it) because it is so packed with minerals it is said to overwork your liver and kidneys. In spring and summer the leaves should be used, fall and winter the roots should be used :)

Do you have a Comfrey fact? How do you use it? ✨🥰 Show us a picture of your Comfrey!!

08/02/2023

Imagine not liking me and I'm just squatting next to the pond trying to figure out WHAT PLANT IS THIS

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