Crust & Mantle: Minerals and Trace Elements in Herbs
“The mineral and trace element content of our foods, including more than 20 nutrients known to be essential to normal health, has plummeted decade by decade across the last two generations.” ~ The Healing Power of Minerals and Trace Elements, Paul Bergner
The poor agricultural practices used to produce food on an industrial scale have depleted our soils, and thus our food, of important nutrients, leading to deficiencies that have wide-reaching consequences for our health and vitality. The good news is, wild and weedy herbs have been shown to be significantly higher in important minerals and trace elements. This month's box will explore the function and role that minerals and trace elements play in our body and how herbs can be a rich, bioavailable source of these essential nutrients.
The poor agricultural practices used to produce food on an industrial scale have depleted our soils, and thus our food, of important nutrients, leading to deficiencies that have wide-reaching consequences for our health and vitality. The good news is, wild and weedy herbs have been shown to be significantly higher in important minerals and trace elements. This month's box will explore the function and role that minerals and trace elements play in our body and how herbs can be a rich, bioavailable source of these essential nutrients.
Alexandre-Isidore Leroy De Barde [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Herbs in this box may include red raspberry leaves, nettle leaves & seeds, horsetail, lambsquarters, amaranth, milky oats, yellow dock, oak, white sweet clover, crampbark... Products you may find in your box include an herbal tea, a finishing salt, a tincture, a greens powder, an herbal vinegar and/or an electuary.
Manganese dendrites on a limestone bedding plane from Solnhofen, Germany. Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson
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Boxes are offered with sliding scale prices. To learn more about sliding scale pricing, please read this post. But basically, in a nut shell (pun intended!), I invite you to pay one of the reduced fees, if paying the full price would cause you to be less secure in your ability to meet your food, health, housing or essential transport needs. To determine where you fall on the scale when choosing which price to pay, please refer to this infographic created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk (Click image to enlarge).
Large Box- 6 products
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Small Box- 4 products
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Payments can also be made by cheque made out to:
The Wild Garden, 2389 Pepin Ct. Ottawa, ON, K1B 4Z3
Additional shipping fees apply outside of Ontario and Western Quebec.
Please contact me for more information: info at thewildgarden dot ca
About the Herbal Box
The Wild Garden Herbal Box is your opportunity to connect with and learn about the wild edible and healing plants of the Ottawa bioregion. Monthly boxes are delivered directly to your door. Each month’s box will explore a particular theme and comes with a detailed newsletter highlighting the products for the month and is full of information, historical lore, recipes and more! Herbal boxes make great gifts and can be shipped directly to the recipient.
Monthly subscribers also enjoy free access to any walks and select workshops offered by the Wild Garden, during the month(s) for which they are subscribed. (Material fees apply and pre-registration is required.)
With an herbal box you can:
The Wild Garden, 2389 Pepin Ct. Ottawa, ON, K1B 4Z3
Additional shipping fees apply outside of Ontario and Western Quebec.
Please contact me for more information: info at thewildgarden dot ca
About the Herbal Box
The Wild Garden Herbal Box is your opportunity to connect with and learn about the wild edible and healing plants of the Ottawa bioregion. Monthly boxes are delivered directly to your door. Each month’s box will explore a particular theme and comes with a detailed newsletter highlighting the products for the month and is full of information, historical lore, recipes and more! Herbal boxes make great gifts and can be shipped directly to the recipient.
Monthly subscribers also enjoy free access to any walks and select workshops offered by the Wild Garden, during the month(s) for which they are subscribed. (Material fees apply and pre-registration is required.)
With an herbal box you can:
- build your own home apothecary of healing plants and discover traditional ways of supporting wellness
- support local, small-scale, organic permaculture
- incorporate more nutrient dense wild foods into your diet
- enjoy organically grown and ethically wild gathered foods and herbs delivered directly to your door (all products are made from herbs that I grow and gather myself on the Just Food Food Farm.)
- nourish yourself and your family with local, seasonal products handcrafted with love in small batches
- learn about the wild plants growing in the greater Ottawa bioregion
- loose-leaf tea blend
- herb infused honey
- herb infused vinegar
- herbal syrup or elixir
- wild herb seasoning blend, dried culinary herbs
- wild food preserve (jam, jelly, fruit leather…)
- herbal liqueur
- tincture
- herbal salve
- body oil, body butter or lotion bar
- herbal scrub or bath salt
- herbal burning wands