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City Herbalists often have to make do with tiny places – a balcony, shady backyards the size of a postage stamp or busy boulevards. With a bit of ingenuity and planning, urbanites can grow an amazing array of herbs and medicinal plants even in small spaces.

Herbal Learning can start as early as kindergarten, and it never needs to end. Herb walks and summer camps are a couple of fun avenues into nature and Herbalism. Today, we’re talking with Anna Bradley, clinical herbalist and co-founder of Whole Earth Nature School, about helping your kids connect with Nature and Ancestral Living.

We discussed our early learning experiences with herbs and primitive living skills we have learned through our relatives and teachers along with wildcrafting ethics.

Although many of our ancestors used herbal medicine daily, often as an of course, most of us didn’t grow up in herbal households. Despite that, we can recover the wisdom and ways of our ancestors in our modern lives.

As herbalists, we often talk about our favorite plant friend for specific conditions, like Crohn’s or Alzheimer’s diseases. One class of herbs often helps bring balance to all the body’s systems: The Adaptogens.

When dental troubles surface, natural remedies are a go-to for Practical Herbalists. We recognize or plant allies are well suited to caring for the extremes our teeth and gums brook in health and in crisis. Today, we’re talking about herbalism for dental emergencies and diseases and the more intensive situations our mouths sometimes face.

Forty years ago, Peru’s Department of Agriculture tallied maca cultivation at only 70 acres. By the early ‘90s, maca was on the endangered plants list.