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07/31/2026

Being with flowers naturally lowers your cortisol, a leading cause of inflammation.

What is your favorite flower? 🌸

07/28/2026

Every Appalachian grandmother had two remedies: castor oil for whatever ailed you, and a look that could cure it before you even took the spoonful. 🥄

There was no diagnosis castor oil couldn’t handle from cough, bellyache, bad attitude, to “spring cleaning” for your insides. You didn’t ask questions. You just held your nose and swallowed.

Tag the grandbaby who still shudders at the smell. 👇

(As always our elders knew)

07/21/2026

Yellow Root (Xanthorhiza simplicissima)

Bright gold under the bark, bitter on the tongue, and rooted deep in Appalachian tradition. Our grandmothers chewed the root raw for sore throats and mouth sores, steeped it for digestive bitters, and used it as a wash for skin irritation ~long before “bitters” was a wellness buzzword.

Look for it along creek banks and shaded slopes here in the mountains ~the golden-yellow wood gives it away every time.

Harvest ethically please because this plant is pressured. If you want an easier plant to gain rubber from look at Mahonia grape, which is often used in landscaping.

mountainmedicine wildcrafting

07/18/2026

We are Not FOR SALE!

Data Centers be gone


07/18/2026

Doctors were once embedded in the communities they served. Now they are fighting to serve. Many forgetting or never have been taught what being a healer really means.

Signing private practices to corporations for convenience. Many driven to this choice by a system set up to make them fail- just as what happened to pharmacies first.

We are on our own. The fight is real.

07/16/2026

Do you remember being a dot! We all need to be dots in our community-even today without a natural disaster. If you weren’t part of my page, then a dog is doing one small thing to make a situation better and if everyone did one small thing together, we become one by big dot.

This is my reminder because on July 30 Scars on the Mountain | Hurricane Helene Documentary will be premiering their documentary on hurricane Helene in the Yancey County region of Western North Carolina through the voices of the people who survived. It will be available on Angel. I hope that we can all continue to be dot for hurricane Helene and watch this movie because a portion will go back to the community.

Love you DOTS!

Angel

07/13/2026

Although we can always wish that hurricane Helene did not happen… It did. We are changed forever and these beautiful filmmakers have given voice to what we endured. Please go to their site. Scars on the Mountain | Hurricane Helene Documentary and sign up to see this documentary. A portion of what is made will go to the people of Yancey County.

07/13/2026

The Sycamore Keeps the Water’s Secrets

Platanus occidentalis

She stands where the creek bends ~bone-white bark peeling back like she’s got nothing left to hide.

Sycamores grow where water runs, and the old-timers knew: find her, and you’ll find a spring, a branch, or a river.

Her wood doesn’t split easy. Neither do the women who grew up under her.

In the old ways: the inner bark was steeped for coughs, colds, and chest complaints. It is an astringent, a drying medicine for a wet, rattling lung. Some kept the bark close for measles and eruptive fevers, believing she drew the sickness out the way she draws water up from the creek bed.

Not a plant for solo use ~best known alongside someone who’s sat with her a long while.

PlatanusOccidentalis

07/08/2026

Oldie on my page, but a goody!

This is more important than ever as industry is leading health guidelines and tying physician reimbursement.

We have to fight!

07/04/2026

Becoming a Keeper isn’t about following a trend, it’s about carrying a lineage.

Feral. Fearless. Rooted in truth.

To be a Keeper is to carry that forward.

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