We scored a coup! An officially trained herbalist joined our staff. We didn’t think she’d be teaching us about herbs, because we hired her to take over as Nursery Manager. But, in her first few days we were sitting at a staff meeting complaining about sore bodies due to spring demands on the farm and she told us to try taking Turmeric. “It helps with inflammation,” she says, and went on to tell us how well it’s helping her adapt to work on the farm.
She writes articles on gardening for the Whidbey Examiner, and she wrote in the Island County Master Gardeners Newsletter.
Watch in the next few months as she teaches us about the medicinal aspects of many herbs, works on the plants in our nursery, and after we open the new shop, we are hoping she’ll be teaching some classes, so you’ll be able to learn, too.