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Plantain: The Quiet Healer Beneath Your Feet
Plantain (Plantago lanceolata and Plantago ovata) is a versatile medicinal plant known for its ability to support gut health, soothe mucous membranes, and promote tissue repair. Often found growing in lawns, gardens, and disturbed soils, plantain has long been used as a natural remedy for allergies, leaky gut, skin irritation, and digestive imbalance. In this guide, learn how to identify plantain, harvest it safely, understand its medicinal constituents, and use it in herbal
Cole Schoonover
May 58 min read


Sweet Violet - Vancouver Island Wild Medicinal Plant
Sweet Violets are calling - read along to learn of some of the first medicinal plants to appear.
Cole Schoonover
Mar 24, 20254 min read


Seeding Sovereignty - Four Medicinal Plants to Grow as a Family
Do you remember as a child the first violet poking through the sidewalk cracks? Or finding the first clover of spring? I do! Spring...
Cole Schoonover
Apr 10, 20244 min read


Lungwort Lichen: Native Plant Highlight
Native plants are extremely valuable allies as they are adapted to thrive in the same environmental conditions that we experience, offer food and habitat to local animal and insect species, and can be easy to grow! My hope is that by putting emphasis on local plants people are able to see the value in saving our local natural habitat and utilize native species instead of growing more popular European species. * All information on native medicinal plants, fungi and lichen is a
Cole Schoonover
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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