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The Medicine Woman's Roots: Wild Plants & River Tales of the Gila

The Medicine Woman's Roots: Wild Plants & River Tales of the Gila

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Practicing Medicine Woman Kiva Rose explores traditional herbalism, place-based healing and the wilderness. Filled with the stories and flavors of the Sweet Medicine River and Southwestern wilderness, this blog also includes many beautiful photographs of New Mexico flora and resources for herbal students and teachers.

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  • Green Wealth: Our Wild Plants & Weeds

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 in tales of the sweet medicine

    note: For my email subscribers, I’m sorry about the  post that came out this morning. Please disregard and enjoy this confusion-free blog post! Green Wealth: Our Wild Plants & Weeds by Kiva Rose http://animacenter.org We meet in a canyon...

  • TWH Conference Registrations Opens- please forward…

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 18:54 in traditions in western herbalism conference

    Announcing (please post and forward): REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for the Sept 17-19 TRADITIONS IN WESTERN HERBALISM CONFERENCE Expanded to 3 Full Days of Classes! Discount Early Sprout Registration: $250 The first 100 Registrants to request them (just em...

  • Of the Earth – Original Speech and the Senses

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 13:48 in talking with plants, medicine woman tradition

    The foundation for experiencing and understanding herbal energetics and human constitutions is to learn to speak with the natural world (including plants and the human body) through our senses (which is what they’re there for, after all). Thus,...

  • A Golden Torch: Mullein’s Healing Light

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 21:20 in medicine woman materia medica

    Common Names: Mullein, Punchón, Gordolobo, Wild Ice Leaf, Our Lady’s Flannel, Hag’s (or Hedge) Taper, Torches, Candelaria, Quaker’s Rouge, Botanical Name: Verbascum spp. Parts used: root, leaf, flower, flower stalk resin Energetics – Roo...

  • Rich, Sweet & Wild: Acorn and Pine Nut Infused Butter

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 16:36 in from the hearth

    Most of my readers well know my fondness for the sweet, rich taste of New Mexico’s wild acorn. This smooth dark nut from the evergreen woodlands of the Southwest’s middle mountain ecology is often prolific and a great favorite of local wi...

  • New Animá Supporterships

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 16:22 in green tidbits

    The following is the some of the new text for the Supporter page of the Animá website, describing the new forms for contributing financially to this place, practice and purpose.  We eliminated the Memberships, as that made it sound like this was an...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 3 comments.

amzolt

5 stars Alexander M Zoltai

Added your blog to my RSS Reader...

~ Alex

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rogueprofessor

5 stars Michael B. Dycus, Ph.D

Great to meet you...glad you are here.
There is much useful information that you can share with the rest of the world. So happy I've found your site.

Washte Hey!

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herbalistpath

5 stars Angie Goodloe LMT, Herbalist

Kiva has the best medicine woman blog hands down. Her writing is brilliant. She is a true wise woman, inspiring, empowering, knowledgeable, and her plant descriptions and pictures are superb. She add a personal touch to her posts that make the reading and learning easy, fun, thought provoking.

Posted: September 2nd, 2007 | More Reviews From herbalistpath | Report This Comment

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