Herbal Resistance

Upcoming events

There's a few events coming up over the next month that yours truly is presenting along with The Precinct and the Hills Environment Centre

Bach Flower Essences for activists

This is a post about how to nurture your own activism in these tense times. Whether it is purposeful gardening, focused non violence, local protests, letter writing or engaging on social media. All of that stuff can get to us. This is one of a short series about…

Leave Chia seeds in water for a long while and you’ll get a wonderful, gooey mucilage that can help your digestion, reduce inflammation and boost your immuntiy.

Chia (Salvia hispanica) is in the Mint (Lamiaceae) family and shares this feature with other members of the family such as Basil. Basil…

Closing the covers

An era ends as the covers close on Grass Roots magazine.

Hi! We have glorious weather here at the moment. Today, there’s not a cloud in the sky. Wow! This weekend, I’m doing a little talk on how we control pests here at Ligaya Garden (spoiler…we do nothing!). It’ll be at the Spring Garden Festival at the Mt. Pleasant Market on Saturday if you want to come along or if you’re a regular market attendee. So, I thought I’d share  a brief post with a few garden pics to celebrate this gorgeous day! If you’re finding this information useful, share it with your community Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Facebook Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Tumblr Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)WhatsApp Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window)Threads Click to share on Mail (Opens in new window)Mail Click to share on Print (Opens in new window)Print ✓ Subscribed All of the information on Ligaya Garden Online is freely shared. Please consider making a small donation to keep it free for everyone. Just click this blue button.Submitting form

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We have glorious weather here at the moment. Today, there’s not a cloud in the sky. Wow!

This weekend, I’m doing a little talk on how we control pests here at Ligaya Garden (spoiler…we do nothing!). It’ll be at the Spring Garden Festival at the Mt. Pleasant Market on Saturday if you want to…

It’s that time of year again – Spring. That means it’s time for our feral foraging foray, ‘Food Underfoot’.

Every year, thousands come to Gawler for a week of wild pllant based festivities. Well..not quite (I’m well known for hyperbole😁).…

The algae are uniting to form networks against AI.

Every day begins that way!

Don’t be disappointed in the very low numbers of edible Fungi showing themselves this year. Prepare yourself better for next season with fungal foraging tips by coming along to our presentation at the Barossa Bushgardens…

I would have loved to take part in this but only got onto this platform last month. Will it be run again or online?

Sidewalk chalk message says: "Start imagining the revolution. Stop imagining the apocalypse."

Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.

there's no corruption in politics. none at all.

sweet!

No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza For 18 days, six members of JVP-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

For 18 days, six members of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

Mallow, just the right size to eat!

Here's a little bit about a local friend who can support your resilience...

Our local Mallow isn't the Marshmallow of Northern hemisphere herbalists but is rather Malva parviflora.

It shares the same soothing medicinal properties of all its family, Malvaceae.

Lovely Mallows at just the right age to eat!

Our local Mallow isn’t the Marshmallow of Northern hemisphere herbalists but is rather the Small Flowered  Mallow, Malva parviflora.

It does have its appeals, though and, as with…

Having a coffee at Coffee on Jacob, I’m telling friends that im still resting after last week’s successful herb infused oils workshop at Fulham Community Centre. It was exciting too because I went really high…

Chickweed time!

It's Chickweed time!

Does the Council killing trees get you down too?

Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants

People doing good things for #plants

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Athena's sniffing out health giving herbs

Hi! We've changed the account name from Malcolm Haines to 'Herbal Resistance' because we're more about mutual aid, resistance to capitalism (and all the rot that comes with it) and community support than about me.
Athena is still in here too,on the front lines and sniffing out health giving herbs.

Herb infused oils workshop

My herb infused oil making workshop is tomorrow at Fulham Community Centre.
You can pay on the day if you haven't managed to book a spot.

If you’re ever intimidated about remedy making, remember that practice makes perfect and herbalism is an art that , as a herbal proverb goes – ‘takes seven lifetimes’ to master.

Even for this one, mortal lifetime, there is an…

Use an ice cream maker to mix oils for faster extraction.

I like to use an ice cream maker to keep my herb infused oils mixing for faster extraction.

Watch out for a lot more herbal tips now that I'm on bluesky!

Herbal Honeys

Herbal honeys are sweet, sticky remedies that are easy to take for almost everyone. Here's the process.

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Welcome to the first of our sporadic newsletters for free subscribers. It's a bit of an experiment so let us know if you receive it.

Gooday from me and Athena. It's our first post!