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Over the years, LearningHerbs.com has sent out dozens of herbal lessons via our email newsletter. Here is the only place where you will find all the back issues of HerbalBranches (our first newsletter title) and our newest creation, HerbMentor News.

With almost 50 back issues, we will post a few at a time on a regular basis until we get them all up. In our first year, we will post them as they are seasonally relevant. 

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Recent articles

  Peach Energetics and Smoothie Recipe
Aug 26, 2010

Peaches, like most foods, can be an important part of our medicine chest. Traditional practices of herbal medicine always used energetics to better understand how to use herbs as well as food...
  Yarrow Bug Spray
Jul 27, 2010

It’s finally feeling like summer in eastern Washington State, which means gardening, swimming in lakes and rivers, BBQs, and bugs. Oh, how those bugs love me...
  Herbal Shampoo Recipe
May 12, 2010

Walking down the personal hygiene aisle of a grocery store you can easily get overwhelmed at the amazing amount of choices. Besides being pricy, conventional shampoos contain many harmful chemicals...
  Sea Zest Seasoning
Mar 12, 2010
The recipe for Sea Zest combines three sources of nutritional powerhouses for a tasty herbal seasoning that adds zest to vegetables, meats, sandwiches, salads, and possibly even ice cream...
  Cinnamon Tincture
Feb 5, 2010

Cinnamon is a fascinating spice with a turbulent history. We tend to think of it as a common kitchen spice, but cinnamon has an amazing number of different uses.
  Cinnamon Milk
Jan 23, 2010

Cinnamon is a warming tonic, great for this chilly time of year. Drinking cinnamon milk helps to warm our interior and increase circulation throughout our bodies. It can help to prevent and cure colds and flu...
  Sugar Facial Scrub
Dec 17, 2009
Recently I was at a friend’s house and noticed that she had this super swanky facial scrub for a mere $15 an ounce! I checked out the ingredients and thought, “Not only could I make this myself, but I can even make this better!”
  Stress Support Balls
Dec 12, 2009
Feeling the Stress? Taking time each day to breathe deeply, sit and enjoy our favorite cup of tea, and taking walks to enjoy the changing weather can go a long ways in soothing our nerves and allaying stress...
  Cinnamon and Chili Spiced Pecans
Dec 7, 2009
Here’s a spicy sweet idea combining pecans and spices that your friends and family will love to receive as gifts. Not only is this a tasty treat, but a potentially healthy one as well...
  How to Make Herbal Butter
Dec 6, 2009
Infusing herbs into butter is a simple way to spice up the holiday table. There are so many herbs that can be used in butters and below I’ll share some of my favorite savory and sweet herbal butters.
  Making Nourishing Herbal Dishes Kids Love: Sweet & Sour Burdock Roots
Oct 17, 2009

Do you find that your children are much more interested in tasting new things if they have been involved in making them?  What's especially exciting about herbal creations is that children can be involved from the very beginning of the process.
  Super Immune Building Chai: Kids Edition
Oct 16, 2009

The weather is starting to shift to the cool raininess of autumn. What can we do to help our kids as they head back to the classroom with more exposure to germs and illness?
  Late Summer and the Golden Colors of Calendula
Sep 2, 2009

Summer is drawing to a close here in Washington. The air is cooling off and busy back to school planning has begun. Amidst this transition, the sunny yellow and orange calendula (Calendula officinalis) flowers continue to bloom in my garden...
 
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