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02/26/2026

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02/21/2026

You ready? cold & flu season is upon us & is till circulating.
and plants have been used to boost immunity & resilience for millennia across the globe.
Organic, clean, pure, hand-grown & -harvested, cool-cured Osha del campo root.
2025 harvest
1 oz bags $10
6 oz + bulk price $8/oz
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So what's the deal with Osha de la Sierra vs Osha del Campo?
Long post on this later; here's highlights:
- Osha, aka Bear Root, aka Osha de La Sierra (mountain osha) is Ligusticum porteri.
- Osha del Campo (field osha), aka Lovage is Levisticum officinale.
- These two are botanic cousins, both members of the apiaciae family (so are carrots).
- For medicinal use, these two are considered "analogs" to each other - not the same, but largely interchangeable.
- Osha de la sierra has an intense flavor and is specifically antiviral/bacterial; osha del campo tastes the same but less gagifyingly strong & packs lung & heart support ALSO (broad spectrum).
- Osha de la Sierra is native only to the southwest US and grows wild only, above 9,000' elevation. It truly cannot be cultivated (i've tried for 20+ yrs). It is VERY likely overharvested and threatened (no studies) - accounts last month of a bulldozer(!) being used on a historic stand nearby 😱
- Osha del Campo is an easy-to-grow hardy perennial with delicious culinary leaves (umami/celery flavor) & is 100% - no plants are killed for this root! .
- Ethically, conservationists choose Osha del campo in order to preserve the last remaining wild Osha de la Sierra stands from ongoing overharvesting of their sacred medicine for commercial benefit.
- Ethnobotanically, folks with more recent European heritage often find Osha del Campo a preferable choice, as the Osha de la Sierra is likely more specifically suited to the indigenous populations in the plant's native area.

More later!💚💚💚💚

02/21/2026

Wholesale-to-public nursery:
🌿PERENNIAL FLOWERS, TREES, SHRUBS, GRASSES🌿
2026 biweekly deliveries to Taos & Los Alamos/WR

02/21/2026

Wholesale-to-public nursery:
PERENNIAL FLOWERS, TREES, SHRUBS, GRASSES
2026 biweekly deliveries to Taos & Los Alamos/WR

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02/21/2026

Apothecary & Sound Healing
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& every weekend afternoon in 2026 - Welcome🙏🏼

02/21/2026

A few of our super strong potions, all grown to maturity on site:
tincture, organic & gluten-free - 1 ounce $28
tincture - 1 ounce $26
sleep magic tincture 1 ounce $26

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02/20/2026

MORNING GAZETTE
Seems like maybe there is a tendency for folks to over-rely on AI these days.
seems like a dangerous way to lean.
the damn things give wrong or incomplete answers too often.
i have to call it out on errors quite often, even after "training" it to reference only professional academic or industry sources.
i also have it give me references for its responses, which i check myself.
often, even though its answers SOUND great, the actual basis of those answers is ephemeral, thereby eroding the authority of the entire response.
remember, the AIs are scouring, collating information they find on the internet. this is broad in that it encompasses everything from message boards & blogs all the way up to advanced technical knowledge & esoteric concepts. however, it is also narrow in that everything on the internet is not everything there is to know, - a significant limitation.
for instance, i've noticed over the past few years that most of the search responses to herb inquiries are echoing the same info over and over. most of it is incomplete. a more complete understanding is only achievable by poring over the old books, the herbal texts, the source material .... and those can only be found scanned on sites like archive and project gutenberg.
so while AI is super-helpful, search engines are amazing, remember its all limited to what info it collects from the internet ... which contains only what humans have uploaded to the internet.
human growth and advancement comes from human inspiration, intuition, & creativity, which the AI can try to imitate, but cannot innately generate. we must take extra care to nurture and preserve our humanity - its how we become our best selves and it is our advantage over the AIs.

Image: sunflower sprouts! yum! stay tuned for 2nd saturday skills in march: starting spring seeds! :D

02/19/2026

Just had to share this lovely painting of a blooming ocotillo plant this morning.

02/18/2026

here we go!

02/17/2026

just appreciate you for a moment