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Happy Dog Day!!! during these dog days if summer... #dogdaysofsummer #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #nationaldogday https://www.instagram.com/p/CTDvt5rjWto/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Look what I found in the woods!   A Cauliflower fungi.  So cool to come upon.  Cooked it up with some eggs!!!  Hmmmmm good!!!  That is for sure! There are so many medicinal or edible fungi in these woods.   I love coming upon them.  Magical!!! #medicinalmushroom #magicalmushroom #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #medicinalplants #magic #mushroomhunter Show more https://www.instagram.com/p/CRTh3-HpaAQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I love old pharmaceuticals.  I have posted photos before that were found in an old Florida pharmacy in Bartow. This is a fan, with a tiny tin of product attached. 666 Ointment.  Shown to us by the Goddess Diana, my gal of the woods and the hunt!  This 666 ends the hunt for a remedy for a cold, or that's what it says.  I got an extra, so I can try to open to examine.  So far, getting the top off has been, well, difficult. The company, Monticello Drug Company, is still in existence!!!  Still family owned.  Amazing.  I have been reaching out, to try to learn the ingredients of this salve. This fan is a "road" kitche from the 60's.  They made many others for this product!  Available at all the road stops on Route 66! Amazing!!! #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #medicinalplants #herbalmedicine #plantmedicine https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHMEwFp24z/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I love love love the smell of this lovely flower.   Intoxicating and magical! We use it in several MoonMaid products like our Toner and Face Serum infusions!!   It is also, and always a great calming tea when you just cannot sleep.  Just the scent of these fresh blossoms sent me down a dreamy path....of things to come! #chamomile #medicinalplants #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #plantbasedskincare Show more https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHLBbQp-3j/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Summer is my season. And I epecially love the flowers that appear!  Day Lilies, Elder flowers and berries, fleabane, Queen Anne, garlic scapes, red clover and so many more as the days roll along.   We use the red clover blossoms in our MegaMineral blend tea with the nettles that are beginning to flower too! The garlic scapes, or the blossom of the garlic plant, are such a wonderful addition to a salad, a vinegar or salad oil.  Spice it up!!! I can barely stand it when the elder begins to blossom.  This Lady of the woods has gifted me with a very large patch this year.  One I have never noticed before!!!!  The wonders of the woods! Summer will be a time of fruition, as it is in nature.  Flowers turn to berries, and berries into seeds.  The cycle ever continuing. By Autumn, the HipCamp here at Medicine Woods will at last happen.  It has taken years longer then I had planned.   The cycles of my life demanded that I pivot.  This is preciselyt what the plants and trees and animals of this land have taught me.  Sway, bend with a breeze, use your strength against a strong wind, let go when necessary! Enjoy these long hot doggy days of summer!!!!  Prepare, for the forthcoming harvest! #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #summerflowers #medicinalplants #summerflowers https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZLrDgAeB-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Wild yam, Dioscorea villosa.  Potent medicine growing right here in the woods...and the medicine wheel here at Medicine Woods.   Wild yam has been used for millenia for hormone related issues.  Not the yam one buys in the grocery store.  Nope.  A lovely plant with ribbed heart shaped leaves,  that bring a smile each and every time I see it.  Delicate.  Yet strong.   Yes!!! The root is hard and pretty tough, and very hard once dried.  Be sure to dice it up when fresh.  Leave a tad in the ground as a gift to the woods and for future growth. Strong plant medicine. Truth, most wild yam has been used for bio-identical progesterone production.  The source was a very large version, Dioscorea mexicana, harvested in Mexico.  Cultivated now, or found in woodland places like Medicine Woods. It is an endangered plant due to over harvesting. It is a native Smoky Mountain medicinal plant found in many hollers and woods.  Many other plants have a heart shaped leaf structure....but this one is special.  Growing in "whorls" round and round.   Special along with her sisters black and blue cohosh, ginseng, solomen's seal, goldenseal and so many more.  Ever a delight here at Medicine Woods. #medicinewoods #wildyam #smokymountains #plantmedicine #moonmaidbotanials #progesterone #medicinalplants #ginseng https://www.instagram.com/p/CQT7PNDAwR1/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A rose is......a rose. My father loved roses.  Not much of a gardner was he, but he had a beautiful bed of roses.  Double Delight and Yellow Rose of Sharon, were two of my favorites. Later in life, I worked at a rose development farm in Irvine California, and helped to create and very much loved Sterling Silver.  A beautiful lavender rose. This beauty is a wild wood rose.  She came from a friends garden, who had been given one by another friend that came from another friend.  Like that. Plant sharing.  Is something love to do!!   Though rosy girl does not have a ton of scent, instead a very delicate aroma.   There is another common invasive rose, a multiflora, but she comes with a magnificent scent.  The roadsides are full of these fragrant beauties.  Just coming to the end of their season. Roses are red.....and yellow and white and even pink too!!!   #wildrose #medicinewoods #plantmedicine #roses #moonmaidbotanicals https://www.instagram.com/p/CP6pttFgo3Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Pretty pretty wild rose. I wait for her every year! A faint scent, very faint yet noticeable. The dried petals will be added to the RadiantRose Nite Cream. She will add great beauty to the garden @ Medicine Woods. #wildrose #roses #moonmaidbotanicals #medicinewoods #medicinalherbs #nightcream #plantbasedskincare https://www.instagram.com/p/CPl70nRgUuM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Aren't these beautiful flowers.  The forest floor is littered with them.  The Tulip Poplars in their full glory.  As well as the mountain laurel with rhododendrons right behind.  I love the flowering trees of the Great Smoky Mountains.  Dogwoods, Red Buds, Tulip Poplar, and Black Locust. This will add a wonderful, magical scent to the air.  Can't wait!   #greatsmokymountains #medicinewoods #tulippoplar #floweringtrees #moonmaidbotanicals https://www.instagram.com/p/CO1ECTDr0BM/?igshid=zlvkbloox3vi

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It's National Pet Week.  5 creatures, who keep me as a pet, live here at Medicine Woods.  2 precious pups and 3 delightful cats.  This land would surely not be the same without them. They bring joy with their bouncy or curious or even naughty behavior.  Animals being animals reminding me that "I am same." These are one of the pairs of "boys" that live here.  Nissan, the black sleep persistent and curious hunter, and Little Rodger, commonly called Rogy, cuz he is just so darn sweet. Roger seems to attract all manner of difficulties.  First broken teeth from a tussle he got into.  Then a snake bite, copperhead....which left him with an interesting scar pattern on his chest.  And now the little man, as you can see, has broken his ear.  It appeared an abcess...but alas noooooo.  Surgery tomorrow, then he will have a button on his ear for two weeks.  Rogy..........the dog worth his weight in gold, litterally. #whatwouldwedowithoutthem #rescuedogs #nationalpetweek #pets #dogs #medicinewoods #cats #greatsmokymountains #unitedplantsavers #botanicalsanctuary https://www.instagram.com/p/COddmFDrLP-/?igshid=18x2emjcra571

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Tis a beautiful PinkMoon out there. Simply magical! #fullmoon #magical #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals #happy https://www.instagram.com/p/COJsCUSs1_t/?igshid=1mf8ucvbthpj3

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Gonna miss this girl. Happy trails LunaLooney girl! #kittylove #magicalcat #missingyou https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8kEeEMxqS/?igshid=jk5mrp4a1b0f

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Roger. #mypup #doglove #dogsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CNtRE_psjLg/?igshid=5y9zzoy5jl0x

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Hmmmmm good!! Fresh green juice. Made with my Nama juicer. Super full of minerals and vitamins good for we humans!! #greenjuice #namajuicer #greatsmokymountains #medicinewoods #moonmaidbotanicals https://www.instagram.com/p/CNiC8YzsFy6/?igshid=6uhuw6j1ljw9

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Me. Out in the garden, gathering. #moonmaidbotanicals #magical #greatsmokymountains #medicinewoods #dandelion https://www.instagram.com/p/CNd9WpDMIc_/?igshid=l8jupyv08w8a

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This delightful product arrived one day. Return address illegible. It works great? Was it you? Thank you!!! #surprise #moonmaidbotanicals #medicinewoods #plantmedicine #medicinalplants https://www.instagram.com/p/CNd8am7MnGZ/?igshid=1lxlazo4lm96j

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Gorgeous Mayapple with raindrops! Just one of the many beautiful medicinal plants here at Medicine Woods The greening has just begun! #moonmaidbotanicals #smokymountains #medicinewoods #medicinalplants https://www.instagram.com/p/CNd743FsNcp/?igshid=1an4a51rgpspn