Prairie Magic Herbals

10/09/2025

Elderberry syrup and elderberry tincture available. 4 oz syrup and tincture available in 1 oz and 2 oz. Good immune support to fend off cold and flu viruses and to shorten the duration if you get the winter miseries.

10/09/2025

08/08/2025

Elderberry time! Picking my berries and making syrup, extract/tinctures etc. No chemicals ever in my garden. Taking pre-orders if interested. Elderberry syrup is 4 oz bottle. Elderberry tincture can be 1 oz, 2 oz, or 4 oz. Specify what you are interested in. I make all product batches in small amounts with loving attention to detail when I work with the plants. I am not a commercial grower nor a producer. When its gone, it's gone, because I don't use dried berries in making my products.
I use elderberry to support my immune system throughout winter and also to fend off viruses that cause cold/flu. If you have questions about elderberry you can message me.

08/08/2025

In 18th-century Scotland, Elizabeth Blackwell faced a daunting challenge when her husband was thrown into prison for debt.

To secure his release and support her family, she decided to use her artistic talents for an incredibly ambitious project.

Elizabeth began creating "A Curious Herbal," a detailed guide to medicinal plants. This was no small task, as it required immense research and skill. 🌿

She moved to be near the Chelsea Physic Garden, where she could draw the plants directly from live specimens. She didn't just draw them; she also engraved the copper plates for printing and colored the illustrations herself.

Over three years, from 1736 to 1739, her work was published in weekly installments until it contained 500 unique and beautiful plant illustrations.

The book was a huge success. Doctors and apothecaries across Europe praised its accuracy and usefulness. It was a practical guide that helped professionals identify important medicinal herbs. 👩‍🔬

Not only did the book's proceeds successfully free her husband from prison, but it also secured Elizabeth's place in scientific history. Her work became a standard reference for decades.

The great Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of modern taxonomy, even acknowledged her contribution by referring to her work as 'Botanica Blackwellia.'

16/06/2025

Recipe: Elderflower Champagne - a delicious summer drink I make annually. Like lemonade, fizzy, with elderflower taste obviously. Once friends taste it, they want gallons the next year. Remember elder is a faerie and nature spirits tree. be respectful.

Ingredients
2 gallons water
5 cups sugar (I think I do 4)
8 large elderflower heads (I pick the flowers off of the green stem; the main one anyway..not the tiny ones the flower umbrels on)
4 Lemons
4 tablespoons mild white wine vinegar

Mix in a nonmetal bowl....glass is nice or plastic if you want.

Method
Boil the water and pour on the sugar to dissolve it.
Cool and add the elderflowers, juice of the two lemons, slices of the other two and the vinegar.
Cover with a cloth and leave for a day.
Strain with a fine sieve or muslin cloth, squeezing the flowers as you do to release more flavor.
Store in screw top bottles.

Elder flower has natural yeast. It won't start fermenting until under pressure in the bottle. You won't see or hear it fizz in the bowl; it won't bubble; do not add yeast! If you taste it after it sits before you bottle it, it will taste like a flat sweet elderflower drink. Bottle it up, (screw top brew bottles). when you do open it, slightly open and you'll hear the psst..do it over the sink or outside. By this time, the natural yeasts from the flowers will have worked in conjunction with the other ingredients, and you will get a lovely, fizzy summer drink.

It will be ready in about 10-14 days .I have read stores for a month but I actually had some I made at Midsummer and kept in the refrigerator in glass bottles (Frap size or iced tea) and drank the last of it in the late fall.

22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day! I hope you all get a chance to spend some time in nature today, weather in your own yard, on a nature trail, at a lake, or a nearby area. It's beautiful and sunny here and I will be out in my garden today. This is a song My herbal instructors had taught me early on.

eu e a floresta..The Spirit of the plants has come to meIn the form of a beautiful dancing green womanHer eyes filled me with peaceHer dance filled me with p...

29/03/2025

A friend of mine who lives in rural Kentucky Tennessee area, said a few years ago that they began spraying the areas under the guise of preventing mosquito borne West Nile. Those were the areas in Kentucky and Tennessee where Generations knew to forage the plants they used for medicine. But they could not do that after it had been sprayed. Soon they got the Flyers in the mail about medical clinics where they could get treated and they no longer had to rely on folk medicine and plants. So this song also attests to that with the fact that pills became a way of life over plant-based healing.

29/03/2025

Know your plants. Garden centers selling St Johns wort (h. moserianum/tricolor first image). Medicinal Hypericum-St Johns wort (for tinctures and oils) other 2 pics. Leaves are narrow and held to light, you should see tiny glands that looks like translucent dots (perforatum of hypericum perforatum). Moserianum tricolor is a cultivar hybrid for pretty garden landscape only.
Similarly, cultivated colored yarrow that is used for cut flower bouquets, it is not the wild white yarrow used medicinally.

28/03/2025

March 29 is healing weeds awareness day! Don't spray...yard weeds can heal. What’s wrong with weeds? Natural environments, gardens, parks and public places are home to huge varieties of plants and flowers, and weeds are an important part of that ecosystem. On Weeds Appreciation Day, consider how much fun you had with dandelions as a child before you pull them up; and consider how many of these weeds are in fact edible (make sure to check it’s safe!), and used in healing medicine...like dandelions, plantain, chickweed, violets, wild lettuce, purslane, yellow dock, and more. No chemical spray !

24/03/2025

Know your antifungal plants and internal or topical uses accordingly . Plants like garlic, rosemary, oregano. Black walnut, calendula, Pau d'arco and others.

New cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus have been identified in at least two states’ hospital systems.

02/01/2024

Goodbye old year...do what you do to clear and welcome a new year and a new beginning. Rest renew, burn some Sage, sweep the old out the door, Etc. Ready to get things back on target for the new year.