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One of the simplest ways to begin a living apothecary is to grow what you will actually use.It can be tempting to start ...
06/25/2026

One of the simplest ways to begin a living apothecary is to grow what you will actually use.

It can be tempting to start with a long list of beautiful medicinal plants, especially when you begin learning herbalism. But a living apothecary is not just about collecting plants. It is about creating a relationship between the plants, the needs of the home, the season, the garden, and the people you are caring for.

So before asking, “What herbs should I grow?” it can help to ask:
- What kind of care do we reach for most often?
- What teas, oils, salves, steams, vinegars, or simple preparations would we actually make?
- What plants would we remember to harvest?
- What grows well in our climate and our garden?
- What can support pollinators, beauty, soil life, and household care at the same time?

This is where permaculture and herbalism begin to come together. We are not only choosing plants for their uses. We are choosing relationships that can be tended over time.

In Create Your Living Apothecary Masterclass, Anna Maria will help you think through plant choices based on your family, land, climate, goals, and capacity, so your apothecary begins as something useful and alive, not just another project that becomes overwhelming.

Comment APOTHECARY and we’ll send you the link for the July 1 live class.

A yellowing plant may look like a simple nutrient problem, but soil rarely speaks in only one layer.It might be low nitr...
06/25/2026

A yellowing plant may look like a simple nutrient problem, but soil rarely speaks in only one layer.

It might be low nitrogen. It might also be pH affecting nutrient availability, compacted soil limiting root growth, waterlogged conditions reducing oxygen, drought stress, weak biological cycling, low organic matter, or a fertility system that is losing more than it is returning. The visible symptom matters, but it is not always the whole story.

This is where regenerative soil work asks a different kind of question. Instead of only asking, “What product fixes this?” we begin asking, “What condition is creating this symptom?” That one shift changes the way we approach compost, fertilizer, mulch, minerals, cover crops, biological inputs, and even irrigation.

There are times when adding an input is appropriate. But if the deeper issue is poor structure, low oxygen, bare soil, erosion, weak roots, or broken nutrient cycling, then simply adding more may not solve the real problem.

Learning to read symptoms as signals helps us respond more intelligently. It moves us from reaction into diagnosis, and from diagnosis into better design.

This is one of the ideas we’ll be unpacking in the free webinar on July 8th: The 3 Keys to Regenerative Soil Fertility.

Comment SOIL or send us a message and we’ll send you the registration link.

A living apothecary should fit the life you actually live.It does not have to begin as a perfect herb garden, a huge med...
06/24/2026

A living apothecary should fit the life you actually live.

It does not have to begin as a perfect herb garden, a huge medicinal planting, or an overwhelming list of plants you feel pressured to learn all at once. The best apothecary is the one you can actually tend, harvest from, remember, prepare, and use in the rhythm of your home.

This is one of the first design questions: where will the plants actually be seen, cared for, and brought into daily life?

For one person, that may be a few pots near the kitchen door. For another, it may be a garden bed, a food forest edge, a pollinator border, a small farm planting, or a pathway lined with useful herbs. The point is not to copy someone else’s garden. The point is to design with your people, your place, your capacity, and your real season of life in mind.

In Anna Maria’s live online masterclass, Create Your Living Apothecary, she will help you think through medicinal plants with a permaculture lens so you can begin designing something beautiful, useful, and realistic for your home, garden, homestead, farm, or community space.

Join us live on Wednesday, July 1, from 6–9 PM Central.

Comment APOTHECARY and we’ll send you the link.

There is no single soil fertility recipe that fits every garden, orchard, homestead, market garden, farm, or designed la...
06/24/2026

There is no single soil fertility recipe that fits every garden, orchard, homestead, market garden, farm, or designed landscape.

A sandy vegetable bed, a young orchard, a compacted clay area, a pasture, and a greenhouse bed may all need different strategies. They may need different forms of organic matter, different water management, different roots, different mulch systems, different timing, and different expectations. The tools may overlap, but the design should not be copied blindly from one system to another.

This is one of the most important shifts in regenerative soil work. We are not simply trying to “improve soil” in a generic way. We are trying to understand this soil, in this place, for this living system, under this management, with these real people caring for it. That means fertility decisions need to consider the soil itself, but also the plants, water, climate, season, available materials, labor, budget, and long-term capacity of the person or family managing the system.

A fertility plan that looks good on paper but requires too much time, money, or complexity may not actually be regenerative for the people involved.

This is part of what we'll explore in the free webinar on July 8th: The 3 Keys to Regenerative Soil Fertility.

Comment SOIL or send us a message and we’ll send you the registration link.

Lucian: I’m teaching a free live webinar on Wednesday, July 8 called The 3 Keys to Regenerative Soil Fertility.This is a...
06/23/2026

Lucian: I’m teaching a free live webinar on Wednesday, July 8 called The 3 Keys to Regenerative Soil Fertility.

This is a practical 45-minute training for gardeners, homesteaders, orchardists, market gardeners, small farmers, permaculture students, designers, and land stewards who want to think more clearly about soil fertility and stop relying on guesswork.

A lot of people care deeply about soil, but still feel unsure about what to do next. Should they add compost, mulch, fertilizer, minerals, biology, cover crops, or something else? Those tools can all have a place, but regenerative soil work becomes much stronger when we understand the soil first, learn how to read what it is telling us, and then choose strategies that fit the actual context.

In this free training, I’ll introduce the three keys we use at Sun and Bloom Farms: understanding soil as a living system, learning how to read and test soil, and beginning to build a fertility plan that fits your soil, plants, time, resources, and goals.

The webinar is drawn from our Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems guidebook and the Master Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems course re-starting in August.

Comment SOIL or send us a message and we’ll send you the registration link.

06/21/2026

What has come into the light for you this season?

It could be something beautiful, something hard, something growing, something unfinished, something you’re proud of, or something that needs care.

Name one thing the light is revealing.

Around the longest days of the year, nature is fully visible. Growth is obvious. Gaps are obvious too. This is not a tim...
06/21/2026

Around the longest days of the year, nature is fully visible. Growth is obvious. Gaps are obvious too. This is not a time for shame. It is a time for seeing clearly. Today, honor what the light is revealing.

A note from Lucian: "I am opening an early interest list for the Regenerative Life Design book, free introductory class, and future coaching container. This work is for people who feel drawn to permaculture principles not only for the garden, but for the redesign of life itself: rhythm, purpose, home, work, relationships, resilience, and care. Comment “LIFE DESIGN” or send me a message if you want to be notified when the first invitation opens."

06/20/2026

What is one action you could take today that would serve more than one purpose?

A meal, a conversation, a walk, a garden task, a family rhythm, a piece of writing, a repair, a phone call — what could give more than one gift?

Share one “stacked yield” action in the comments.

Cover crops are not just plants we grow between crops. They are living tools.Some cover crops help fix nitrogen. Some bu...
06/20/2026

Cover crops are not just plants we grow between crops. They are living tools.

Some cover crops help fix nitrogen. Some build biomass. Some protect soil from erosion. Some loosen compacted layers with deep roots. Some feed pollinators. Some suppress weeds. Some support microbial life. Some become mulch, compost, or animal forage.

The question is not simply, “Should we plant a cover crop?” The better question is: What does this soil need, and what plant can help provide it?

A sandy soil may need cover, organic matter, and moisture protection. A compacted soil may need roots, time, biology, and reduced disturbance. A vegetable garden may need faster nutrient cycling. An orchard may need perennial ground-cover, fungal support, and slower fertility release. This is where soil-building becomes design.

Inside our Regenerative Soil & Fertility Systems guidebook, we introduce cover crops as part of a larger fertility system. In our live or recorded Master Soil course this August, we go deeper into choosing strategies that fit the soil, the season, and the system being built.

Comment COVER CROP for the book and course links.

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