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Boost Your Immune System with Herbs
Herbalist John Redden examines the immune system’s links to the endocrine and nervous systems, emotions, and diet. He shares herbal remedies and treatments for flu, Lyme, and more. A respected herbalist, he co-founded the Ontario Herb Festival and founded Viriditas Herbal Products.
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Richters Herbs At The St. Jacobs Farmers Market
Shop a selection of Richters' culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs, vegetable plants, seeds, dried herbs, and herbal tea blends at the St. Jacobs Farmers Market!
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Richters Herbs Pop-Up At The Big Carrot
Richters Herbs is popping up at The Big Carrot Courtyard! Don’t miss your chance to shop the unique culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs Richters is known for!
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Richters Herbs Pop-Up At The Big Carrot
Richters Herbs is popping up at The Big Carrot Courtyard! Don’t miss your chance to shop the unique culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs Richters is known for!
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Richters Herbs Final Pop-Up Of The Season At The Big Carrot
Richters Herbs is popping up at The Big Carrot Courtyard! Don’t miss your chance to shop the unique culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs Richters is known for!
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Hot Herbs For Your Perennial Garden
Echinacea, bee balm, lavender, nepetella and sage are just some of the attractive herbs you can grow in a perennial garden – as much for their beauty as for their usefulness as herbs. Horticulturist Jeff Mason discusses these and many more hot herbs, and how to design and plant the garden of your dreams with perennial herbs. Jeff is a speaker and writer on a wide range of gardening and horticultural topics. He operates Mason House Gardens, an independent garden centre near Uxbridge, Ontario, specializing in hardy perennials and xeriscaping plants.
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How To Plan And Plant Your Herb Garden
Adding herbs to your garden space can be both soothing and inspiring. Richters’ herb expert, Koidu Sulev, shows you how to make a beautiful garden a reality. Koidu covers topics such as site preparation and soil conditions, planting techniques, and plant maintenance, with a focus on popular culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs.
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Forest Gardening In An Urban Setting
Learn how to bring a little of the forest to the city and grow yourself an abundance of food, fuel, fibre, and farm-aceuticals. By creating a forest garden in your own backyard and using the structure and layers of a natural forest, you can combine a vegetable plot with a herb garden, a textile plantation, an orchard, and timber stand, all in one glorious space! Travis outlines what a forest garden is, why it is beneficial, how to make one, and show examples of existing urban forest gardens.
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Seabuckthorn: An Ancient Plant Rediscovered
Prized for centuries in both Asia and Europe for its highly nutritious and medicinal properties, seabuckthorn is growing in popularity throughout North America. Seabuckthorn combats dry skin, fades age spots, and helps prevent and treat wrinkles. Many call the orange berries a "superfood." This adaptable fruit is now grown all over the world, including Canada. Andrew discusses the history, uses, nutritional value, and health benefits of this amazing plant.
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Potager Gardening
Potager is a French term for an ornamental kitchen garden that goes back to the French Renaissance and the Baroque. Flowers, both edible and not, and herbs are cleverly planted among the vegetable plants. The result is an edible garden that is as decorative as it is delicious! Learn the best plants to use and how to create a garden for beauty and food. Marjorie Mason is an expert gardener who enjoys sharing her ideas with others. In 1987, she founded Mason House Gardens, a retail plant centre and display garden south of Uxbridge. Marjorie is the host of Let’s Get Growing on CKDO radio in Oshawa, Ontario. Marjorie is a much in-demand speaker on annuals, author of Amazing Annuals, and frequent contributor to home and garden magazines such as Canadian Living, Canadian Gardening, Harrowsmith, Canadian Wildlife Federation, and Landscape Ontario.
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Women, Herbs & Health
Women have been using herbs as food and medicine since the dawn of time. Today, plant medicine and a plant-based diet can be used to promote fertility, balance hormones naturally, while providing nourishment and vitality. Carmen covers common issues including infertility, urinary tract infections, hormone imbalance, uterine fibroids, and much more. Herbs such as vervain, agrimony, holy basil, and motherwort are a few of the herbs that can be used for health. Learn how to grow your own medicine and how to apply it to your health.
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Healing Salves
Salves, ointments, and balms help soothe scrapes, burns, itches, stings, and bruises. Registered Herbalist, Diane Tait, discusses how to make these healing salves using herbs from the garden. She covers what oils to use and how to use beeswax to turn the oils into salves.
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Herbal Anti-Inflammatories And Analgesics
Overreliance on common over-the-counter drugs to control chronic pain and inflammation can cause serious health effects over time. Herbs offer another option, and more and more people are choosing them as they learn more what harm drugs are doing to them. Tiffany shared her homecare advice on using herbs and diet to relieve aches, pains and inflammatory conditions.
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Creating A Sanctuary Of At-Risk Herbs
As herbal medicine moves into mainstream and the demand for wild medicinal herbs soars, we are putting unprecedented strain on our supply of these plants. This, along with habitat destruction, is causing shortages of some of our most treasured medicinal species. Penelope shows how you too can join the fight by growing threatened and endangered herbs in your own personal sanctuary – at home or on your farm.
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