The Healthy Herb Podcast

Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods?  How can you get more of them into your diet?  Why are they important for building health as we age?  Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish. Brighid starts the episode with an excerpt from Susun Weed's book The New Menopausal Years:  The Wise Woman Way.  She then speaks about where her personal perspectives on healthy eating derive from, what she considers the healthiest diet, tips and tricks to get there and a recipe for Sweet Potato Br...

Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse.  She talks about the history of the definitions and the surprisingly recent look at the stages of menopause by the medical community. Enjoy this offering of information and inspiration for women who want to move through menopause with health, vitality and personal power. Send an email to s...

Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane, plus excerpts from Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger are read. Botanical Anthology Autumn HerbRally Nourishing Infusions course Herbs with full podcast episodes: rose, hawthorn, sage, rosemary, mugwort, elecampane instagram facebook website email me: solidagoherbschool@gmail.com   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and u...

Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine. Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreon Study Circle. Find Brighid on instagram, website, and Facebook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial. Botanical Anthology Spring Edition 2024 Botanical Anthology print version Solidago Herb School Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folklore of love and protection, hawthorn has benefits to our nervous system, connective tissue, digestion, and more! Learn how to prepare this plant to make easy home remedies that build health throughout the body. Hawthorn is the herb of the month this February for the Plant Wonder Collective.  Learn more about what the Plant Wonder Collective offers to help you discover more about Hawthorn and other herbs o...

The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism. Meghan Rhodes is a qualified herbalist who has helped over 80 people start living herbalism, making healthier, safer solutions for themselves and their families a reality. As the founder of Rhodes Roots & Remedies, she has written 10 course books, authored the books Easy Herbal Remedies for Infants and Slow-Infused Self-Care, as well as developed a unique four season sense-based herbalism course and journey, Awaken Herbal Wisdom. Meghan’s practice of...

Brighid interviews Mason Hutchison of HerbRally. We talk about Mason's early plant experiences, the inspiration behind HerbRally and The Art of Frugal Nutrition, some current plant allies, travel and a whole lot more. The video of this interview is available on HerbRally's YouTube station, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZiYV95IXc   and check out their whole YouTube variety here: https://www.youtube.com/c/HerbRally Brighid provided a three and a half hour module on nourishing herbal infusions for HerbRally's frugal nutrition c...

This episode covers the top herbs that I make sure I tincture every year and why. Learn how to decipher which herbs work best as tinctures and which do not, plus, how to find your dose of tincture. Past episodes to check out, to dive deeper into herbs mentioned in this episode include: Yarrow (episode 27) Hypericum (episode 26) Lemon balm (episode 38) Echinacea (episode 35) Bitters (episode 37) yellow dock (episode 45) burdock (episode 44)  dandelion (episode 4) spring roots (episode 13) Wild plants (episode 63) <...

Learn about the 4 methods of making tinctures and the pros and cons of each one. Brighid discusses her favorite method, how to make a great tincture and a bit about dosing. The spring issue of Botanical Anthology digital magazine is now available for download. Botanical Anthology is plant-centered, seasonal digital publication with over 55 articles from 42 contributors. Learn more about this herbal magazine here. Website Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of p...

This episode discusses what a tincture is, the history of tinctures and alcohol distillation, and general concepts around tincture making. https://www.solidagoherbschool.com https://www.instagram.com/solidagoherbschool https://www.facebook.com/solidagoherbschool Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Catnip is an herb that benefits humans in a number of ways. It supports the health of the digestive, immune, nervous and reproductive system health and is an especially helpful herb for children and elders. Invasive Plant Medicine podcast episode that I referred to in this episode. https://www.solidagoherbschool.com https://www.instagram.com/solidagoherbschool Https://www.facebook.com/solidagoherbschool Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Schisandra berry is an adaptogen the builds energy reserves, increases resilience and benefits the whole body in a variety of ways. Learn all about the 5 flavored fruit and how you can incorporate it into your life. Other episodes that relate to this topic include: #12 Adaptogen Herbs for Stress Support & Schisandra Find Brighid online here: Website: https://www.solidagoherbschool.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solidagoherbschool Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/solidagoherbschool Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See...

The top 6 herbs that helped my family during the early cold and flu season plus thoughts about the wheel of the year, goals for 2023, and a story about my first relationships with plants. The Healthy Herb podcast episodes that relate to this topic: ep. 43 Winter home apothecary ep. 39 Rose Hips ep. 36 Elderberry ep. 29 Elecampane ep. 2 Linden Solidago Herb School links: Website Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about...

Brighid and Dacia have an inspiring and informative conversation about foraging wild herbs through the seasons, making tasty herbal concoctions, and having a small herbal business. Yarrow, yellow dock, devil's club are a few herbs that are featured in the conversation. Dacia Dailey is a wildcrafter, herbalist, and soapmaker.  She spends the majority of the year in the tobacco valley located in northwest Montana.  Her summer months are spent in an off-grid cabin on a remote island is southeast Alaska.  Dacia is passionate about wild food foraging and shares freely in the blog section of her website.  She...

Brighid Doherty and Kylee Foote talk about transpersonal herbalism, plant spirit medicine, Kylee's favorite herbs, and so much more!  Yarrow, rose, plantain, elecampane, goldenrod, and other herbs are highlighted in this conversation.  How to listen plants, plant-spirit journeys, product making, and the path of an herbalist are all discussed in this episode. Kylee Foote is a transpersonal herbalist and healing mentor on a mission to teach fellow people-pleasers how plant medicine can help them consciously evolve beyond the trauma, pain, & uncertainty from their past that impacts their ability to be fully open & engaged with the life they’re curr...

Brighid and Harmonie talk about becoming an herbalist, making a product line, growing herbs, growing an herbal community, and producing an herbal publication. Harmonie is a homesteading mama maker behind Flora's Feast Botanicals, organizer of the Plant Wonder Collective and editor of Botanical Anthology.  You can find her in the garden growing herbs, in the kitchen experimenting with plants, exploring nature with her daughter or with her nose in a book. With a reverence for winter and the plants associated with it, we present the Winter edition of Botanical Anthology.  A plant lover’s dream, it is a s...

Incorporating plants into children's education curriculum changes the world. Find out how, in this episode interview. Jessie Lehson is the author of seasonal children’s books about the wheel of the year and nature. She is the director and founder of Watershed Public Charter School, a public school that uses the environment and the arts as a tool to connect and deepen student understanding and achievement. Ms. Lehson was previously the Director of Friends of Great Kids Farm, a working farm and Environmental Education campus owned by Baltimore City Public Schools. As a teacher, Lehson spent 15 years as...

A conversation with Margaret Byrd about incorporating plant derived colors into art.  From hibiscus to aloe and usnea lichen to cabbage, plants offer a variety of colors that are incorporated into a variety of art forms. Website: https://www.margaretbyrd.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretByrdColorQuest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonbyrdie TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/moonbyrdie Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/margaretbyrdstudio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretbyrdstudio Blog: https://www.margaretbyrd.com/trailtales Plant Wonder Collective: https://www.instagram.com/plantwondercollective Botanical Anthology: https://w...