Archive for the 'Single Herbs' Category

02 Feb

This is a stop that we made during a trip to Maine a couple of years ago…a wonderful picture of antique equipment used to sort cranberries at County Road Cranberry Bogs in Columbia Falls, Maine.  In our travels (which were wherever the road may take us) we came upon this cranberry bog and the husband and wife who [...]

31 Jan

In the mild November we experienced in 2007, I shared a bit about to an interesting Blueberry store, including a picture, on my Happy Nutritionist’s Nuggets blog…there was hardly a thing in the store that wasn’t in some way related to Blueberries. Maine is one of the best places to pick blueberries in MHO, they [...]

29 Jan

The botanical name for this spiny bush, shrub, or small tree is Cratageus oxyancanthoides. Though it is native to the Mediterranean, it is cultivated worldwide. Wildlife enjoy it as a safe place to take cover, and as a food source. The bush flowers in the spring, and the berries are ready to harvest in early [...]

16 Jan

Horsetail goes by the botanical name Equisetum arvense. Though native to Europe, we have it all over in the area where I live, in Northern NJ, perhaps because we are in a lake community and the herb loves moist soil. When you drive out of our community, it grows heavily along the roadway beside another [...]

02 Jan

I remember as a young girl a large bush my mother had with small flowers that formed large and pretty round blue or white clusters of flowers called a Hydrangea bush.    The kind that you can cut and dry if you wish for a dried flower arrangement. In this post, we’re referring to the [...]