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Last Thursday's Atlanta Botanical Garden Lecture
Some days you just need a good excuse to travel downtown into the City! Atlanta is a beautiful city of trees. Sometimes it’s hard to stop everything and take the time to drive down. I’ve just joined the Atlanta Botanical Garden to do just that! This lecture series is one of several nudges to do so. As I learn more about the gardens, I’m sure I’ll understand a bit why they call this lecture a part of the Alston Lecture series. What drew me to the lecture? Two main things. It was free and the topic was plants as medicine. A talk on plants…does it send you into the idea…
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I went to the market and didn't take one picture!
Yesterday afternoon found me headed south toward town to go to the Norcross Farmer’s Market that is held every Tuesday at 4pm-8pm until end of October. This was my first time to this market. I’m in love with the fact that these are popping up all over the city and that the attendance is increasing for both customers and vendors. If you’ve seen my blog posts on food as of late, this farmer’s market culture has the potential to bring our food chain back in balance one farmer’s market at a time… What it’s going to take is a community, vendors, and customers. It’ll be an ongoing process that has the potential…
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Numen: The Nature of Plants – A MUST HAVE DVD!
There is a new DVD on herbs and medicine that from the looks of the 15 minute demo, is a t-total must have! Dare I say, A Dr. Flower’s Essential! Numen: The Nature of Plants. What is it? Numen as defined in the 15 min demo, is the animated force in ALL things living. Here are a few other facts I picked up: The 4th leading cause of death in our country is the APPROPRIATE use of medications. (Does that astonish you? It sort of takes me a back…) Cancer, heart disease…yep, we are almost intimate with them but appropriate use of medications?? Omega-3 oils (in chloroplast) is the fundamental oil of…
