52 John Barleycorn & the First Loaf: The Story of Lughnasadh
“The field gives back what the field was given.”
Author: The New England Herbary - Thompson Street Farm LLC
Brenda J. Sullivan is an herbalist, author, and entrepreneur. Brenda and her husband manage 1.3-acre micro-farm in South Glastonbury, CT. We specialize in medicinal herbs, lavender and small leafy greens such as microgreens following the organic grower's guidelines. The medicinal herbs are used for their bath and body products sold under the name Farm to Bath.
51 Motherwort | The Lion-Hearted Mother
Motherwort — Leonurus cardiaca, the lion-hearted herb — is bitter medicine for a racing heart. In this episode, Brenda explores the plant’s centuries-old reputation for steadying anxiety and menopausal heat, the astrological history linking her to Leo the lion, and how to meet her as the sky turns toward this week’s Aquarius full moon.
50 Our Grandmothers’ Herbs | The Thread That Came Down Sideways
She saw the devil in it. I see an old friend — this is grandmothers’ herbal wisdom, plain and simple. Welcome back to another dose of grandmothers’ herbal wisdom. Some…
49 The Lavender Drawer
“Home was never the walls. Home is the tending — whatever small territory you care for on purpose.”
48 After the Sun: Cancer’s First Whisper
“We climbed all this way for the light. And the light, having reached us, turns us gently back toward home.”
47 Litha: An Herbalist’s Threshold
“The solstice gives you the threshold. The Virgo moon hands you the map and asks you to actually look at it.” It’s Litha, summer solstice morning — the longest day…
46 The Sun in a Bottle| St John’s Wort at the Summer Solstice
“In February, when the light is thin, you take down that red jar — and you are holding the third week of June in your two hands.”
45 The Pollinator’s Sermon | Tending Here While Holding the Dream
“The garden you have is already worth returning to. Tend it well.”
44 Once in a Blue Moon
“The rare moon is a doorway. And rare moons open onto rare possibilities. The things we have been carrying privately, year after year, deserve a doorway sometimes.”
43 The Road Was Full of Company
The road was full of company. That is what I came home to tell you.