simple-gf-living:

toutcru
Herbs
ParsleyLabels: HerbsUses: A strong diuretic; helps strengthen the immune system as a source of iron, calcium, and vitamins A,B and C; increases lactation in mothers; freshens breath if chewed raw.Parts Used: Leaves, roots, stems, seedsHarvest: Leaves in early summer, rots in the fall, seeds in the late summer of the next year.Shelf life: Leaves, stems, roots 1-3 years; seeds 3-4 years.Caution: Avoid during pregnancy.
OreganoLabels: HerbsUses: Chewing oregano leaves, which are easily available from shops and supermarkets, is a perfect way to help relieve toothaches. Oregano in a fusion or tea helps to ease both coughs and indigestion and can bring on delayed periods.Parts Used: Leaves, stems.Harvest: As needed from a mature plant.Shelf Life: 1-3 years. SageLabels: HerbsUses: As a soothing, astringent skin lotion and aftershave. In tea it is a natural HRT treatment and eases colds and painful periods. Mix tea with cider vinegar as a gargle for sore throats and laryngitis. As a mouthwash to combat ulcers and gum infections. The juice can improve the shine of dark hair. Clary Sage shares many of its characteristics and can be used instead.Parts Used: whole herb, leaves.Harvest: As needed or, if drying, in the summer.Shelf Life: 1-3 years. ( Wild ) ThymeLabels: HerbsUses: Drink as a tea for headaches and mild pain relief. It is also thought that a tea made from wild thyme can prevent nightmares. Take as a tincture for congested chests. A strong infusion of this herb will help ease flatulence and other digestive complaints.Parts Used: Flowering herb.Harvest: When the flowers are in full bloom-from May to October. If drying, toward the end of summer.Shelf Life: 1-3 years.
( Wild Herb ) BasilLabels: HerbsUses: Olive oil infused with wild basil has long been used by villagers in Northern Greece to treat ulcers and wounds. Basil tea eases stomach complaints while the leaves, added to a salad and other foods, help digestion. Drink an infusion to strengthen the immune system. Parts Used: Leaves.Harvest: Use as needed. If drying, harvest in spring or early summer.Shelf Life: 1-2 years.

Growing all of these! <3

toutcru

Herbs

Parsley
Labels: Herbs
Uses: A strong diuretic; helps strengthen the immune system as a source of iron, calcium, and vitamins A,B and C; increases lactation in mothers; freshens breath if chewed raw.
Parts Used: Leaves, roots, stems, seeds
Harvest: Leaves in early summer, rots in the fall, seeds in the late summer of the next year.
Shelf life: Leaves, stems, roots 1-3 years; seeds 3-4 years.
Caution: Avoid during pregnancy.

Oregano
Labels: Herbs
Uses: Chewing oregano leaves, which are easily available from shops and supermarkets, is a perfect way to help relieve toothaches. Oregano in a fusion or tea helps to ease both coughs and indigestion and can bring on delayed periods.
Parts Used: Leaves, stems.
Harvest: As needed from a mature plant.
Shelf Life: 1-3 years.

Sage
Labels: Herbs
Uses: As a soothing, astringent skin lotion and aftershave. In tea it is a natural HRT treatment and eases colds and painful periods. Mix tea with cider vinegar as a gargle for sore throats and laryngitis. As a mouthwash to combat ulcers and gum infections. The juice can improve the shine of dark hair. Clary Sage shares many of its characteristics and can be used instead.
Parts Used: whole herb, leaves.
Harvest: As needed or, if drying, in the summer.
Shelf Life: 1-3 years.

( Wild ) Thyme
Labels: Herbs
Uses: Drink as a tea for headaches and mild pain relief. It is also thought that a tea made from wild thyme can prevent nightmares. Take as a tincture for congested chests. A strong infusion of this herb will help ease flatulence and other digestive complaints.
Parts Used: Flowering herb.
Harvest: When the flowers are in full bloom-from May to October. If drying, toward the end of summer.
Shelf Life: 1-3 years.

( Wild Herb ) Basil
Labels: Herbs
Uses: Olive oil infused with wild basil has long been used by villagers in Northern Greece to treat ulcers and wounds. Basil tea eases stomach complaints while the leaves, added to a salad and other foods, help digestion. Drink an infusion to strengthen the immune system.
Parts Used: Leaves.
Harvest: Use as needed. If drying, harvest in spring or early summer.
Shelf Life: 1-2 years.

Growing all of these! <3

stefanie-bean:

The Goetheanum mural (designed by Rudolf Steiner)

splash-of-my-colors:

Amethyst Druzy with Agate by cobalt123 on Flickr.

fuckyeahpaganism:

Ogun is the god of iron, war, and labor. He is the owner of all technology, and clears obstacles with his machete. It is said that it was Ogun who had given strength to the Haitian revolution in 1804. He is often called to bring freedom and justice if there is a repressive government. In addition, he is also called to bring work for the unemployed. He is also linked with blood, and is sometimes called upon to heal diseases of the blood. It is said that women should not work with him during their menstruation.

uglyartdolls:

My handicap pet painting squirrel Winkelhimer has a new painting up for sale here on ebay
Please tell your friends about her painting auction.The money will go to helping a pug name Bijou we rescued get his shots and to get him fixed!
Thanks
Ugly Shyla
Uglyart.net

Check out this little cuties work! Awesome, also her mom/owner makes some amazing stuff too :)

0pen-book:

Tea as far as I can see by TC. on Flickr.

I want to go to the Baltimore Coffee and Tea company. I wonder if it resembles this. Yummmmm!!!

olorispublishing:

from Culhwch and Olwen (The Mabinogio) by Alan Lee

I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.

Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.

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Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)

Can I marry this post? This is everything I’ve ever wanted.

(via zoedangerawesome)

Alright so, I’m not the most feminine person for sure; but like 90% of clothes have flowers on them and I have very long hair and sometimes I have felt I looked too feminine especially as I can not look so punk fuckin rock in my line of work like I did in younger days…

fuckyeahvikingsandcelts:

sludge-all-night:

terrestrial-noesis:

Elliðaey, Iceland

Believe or not, the Icelandic prime minister wanted to give the island to Bjork, as gift to contributing to the international fame of Iceland.

really?

wow!

‘Cursing stone’ found on Isle of Canna

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‘Cursing stone’ found on Isle of Canna

The bullaun stone was found in an old graveyard

A stone discovered by chance on the Isle of Canna is Scotland’s first known example of a bullaun “cursing stone”, experts have revealed.

Dating from about 800 AD, the stones are associated with early Christian crosses - of which there is one on the isle.

It was found in an old graveyard by a National Trust for Scotland (NTS) farm manager.

The stone is about 25cm in diameter and engraved with an early Christian cross.

It was later found to fit exactly into a large rectangular stone with a worn hole which was located at the base of the Canna cross.

NTS manager of Canna, Stewart Connor, said the importance of the stone became clear after he was notified of the discovery.

He said: “We knew of the importance of bullaun stones and that it could be a really significant find.

“Our head of archaeology confirmed a possible link to the stone at the cross and I was so excited that I went back out at 9pm that night to check whether it fitted the stone with the hole and it did.”

‘Cursing stones’

Katherine Forsyth, an expert in the history and culture of early Celtic-speaking peoples, based at the University of Glasgow, described it as an “amazing find”.

“Stones like this are found in Ireland, where they are known as ‘cursing stones’, but this is the first to be discovered in Scotland,” she said.

Picture of the bullaun sitting on the bowl-shaped lower stone on Canna

This is the first time a top stone has been discovered

“They date from the early Christian period but have continued to be used by pilgrims up to modern times.

“Traditionally, the pilgrim would recite a prayer while turning the stone clockwise, wearing a depression or hole in the stone underneath.”

Dr Forsyth said bowl-shaped lower stones had been found elsewhere in Scotland, including on Canna, but this was the first discovery of a top stone.

She added: “This exciting find provides important new insight into religious art and practice in early Scotland and demonstrates just how much there is still to be discovered out there.”

In the early-Christian period, Canna belonged to the monastery on Iona.

The island was gifted to the National Trust for Scotland in 1981 by Gaelic scholar John Lorne Campbell.

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