Mugwort smoking

 I’ve written at length about my childhood aspirations to be an herbalist. These early fantasies dreamed up from the embrace of a favorite apple tree were no doubt romantic and in some ways impractical. But they also held a seed of long-lasting truth that continues to inform how I shape my path as an herbalist and lifelong lover of plants.Mugwort smoking  Since earliest memory, I pictured myself in a tumbledown cottage or rustic cabin at the edge of the woods, with a weedy patch of garden interwoven with the surrounding forest, the inside of the cottage strung with bundles of drying plants, and the shelves packed with jars of remedies, mushrooms, and peculiar flowers. Happily, I’ve managed to manifest my childhood dream apothecary in the wild mountains of New Mexico.Mugwort smoking  The pantry and cabinets in my tiny cottage are packed tight with all manner of wonders—paper bags of carefully dried herbs, antique jars of oil infusing with aromatic plants, blue-tinted bottl...