Autumn is a breathtaking time of year to enjoy the natural world. As the season changes from warm to cool to cold, and the business of our modern world keeps charging forward at an ever-steady pace, we must remember to care for our precious health and wellness.
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Our Favorite Oils
Melissa Pereira Gelin, our Educational Specialist, has a new video post about some of our favorite topical oils. She discusses the benefits and uses of Lymph Oil, Rose Geranium Oil, and the perennial favorite Yoni Oil.
Salad Dressings Are Easy!
For most of us, when we want to eat healthier, automatically add large salads as an easy way to include a variety of vegetables in our diet. This is an admirable task, especially when one goes beyond including salad basics, however it doesn’t address the problem of store-bought salad dressings.
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Herb Walk Talk
Here is a video of excerpts from the herb walk we hosted a while back. Enjoy!
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Immune Products
I wanted to share a video that Melissa, one of our Educational Specialists did talking about our immune and cold & flu products and how and when to use them. She covers some of the formulas in our children’s line, as well as some oils that are helpful for a cold or flu.
Herb Walk
A couple weeks ago we collaborated with the Farm at UCSC to host an herb walk discussing some of the herbs that are used in our formulas. Our Educational Specialist, Jasmine Wiest, along with David Shaw, founder of Santa Cruz Permaculture & UCSC Common Ground Center as well as having been a professor of Agroecology since 2004; and Cameron Salomon, founder of Kindred Herbs lead the walk.
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
One of my mom’s favorite pet projects was the propagation of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies, a native butterfly. I remember helping my mom collect the leaves the caterpillars pupate on, then feeding them sometimes three and four times a day depending on how large they were. It was wonderful to be in her garden when the butterflies were emerging from their chrysalis. Here is a video my dad made about the Pipevine Swallowtail years ago, with a compilation of over five years of photos.
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BHP Activities
We’ve had an eventful spring here at BHP. Now that my dad and I are working together to produce the herb formulas, we’ve been discussing what we want to do for our fresh herb sources. When he moved to Ohio, one of the requirements for the place he chose was adequate space for a garden. We did some planning over the winter and now that the growing season has commenced we are getting our infrastructure in place. I’ve been documenting the process and we finally have enough complete to warrant a blog post!
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Using Herbs in Our Diet to Enhance Our Health
Most of us try to live a healthy lifestyle: eat a good diet, exercise regularly, and tread lightly on the planet. Even so, sometimes it can be hard to incorporate herbs into our regular routine and keep it up when we don’t have a pressing health issue. Adding fresh herbs to our meals is a wonderful and delicious way to make this easier.
Cold & Flu Video
We have had our Educational Specialists doing trainings for the past few months in the stores that carry our products. Here is a short clip providing a basic overview of our cold and flu products.