Harvesting Practices

• Learn jim's First Two Rules

• Tools of the Trade: Thoughts of jim

The Vervains: Verbena hastata, Verbena urticifolia & Verbena stricta

• Did you make your list yet?

• the flowers of blue vervain

Japanese Hedge Parsley: Torilis japonica

• Hedge your bets, can jim tell these plants apart?

• the flowers of Japanese Hedge Parsley

Self Heal: Prunella vulgaris

• Healing: what a journey it can be.

Ghost Pipe: Monotropa uniflora

• Where jim confronts his own plant lust.

Maidenhair Fern: Adiantum pedatum

• What does grey hair mean to you?

Poison Sumach: Toxicodendron vernix

• Poison Sumach, yes with a "H".

Purple Loosestrife: Lythrum salicaria

• Purple Loosestrife, but doesn't it really look pink?

Turtlehead: Chelone glabra

• A world in which a flower looks like a turtle head.

Royal Fern: Osmunda regalis

• Where royalty wears its spores like a crown.

Boneset: Eupatorium perfoliatum

• Can YOU say perfoliatum?

Joe Pye Weed: Eupatorium maculatum

• But really, Joe?

Skullcap: Scutellaria lateriflora

• I don't need skullcap! Grrrrrrrr!

Goldenseal: Hydrastis Canadensis

• Goldenseal berries!

Spicebush: Lindera benzoin

• Where jim spices things up, watch out!

Horsetail: Equisetum arvensis

• Quit horsing around jim.