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SCA-Herbalist · Discussion of historical and modern herbalism in the Society for Creative Anachronism, an historical re-creation and recreation

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7219 Lila Richards
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Oct 3, 2008
2:57 am
For those of you not already familiar with it, you might find this interesting: The metropolitan museum's (new York) medieval garden blog? ...
7220 Jo Anne Fatherly
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Oct 9, 2008
2:54 am
The fall issue of Tisane is out. It's up on the website, www.eastkingdom.org/guilds/herb So far three hard copy issues have come back to me: Jennifer Schlender...
7221 Lady Biya
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Oct 9, 2008
11:21 am
okay...i don't subscribe, but looking at the online issue, now you have me thinking I should. on another board there was a discussion about how to apply a...
7222 Amy Provost
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Oct 9, 2008
11:39 am
Something like beet juice would work. Or maybe saffron, dandelion, etc. ... -- www.crookedwall.org www.bthumbstudios.com...
7223 Carowyn Silveroak
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Oct 10, 2008
3:12 am
Or any fruit juice suitable for parrots. Probably pomegranate juice, if a certain African grey's response can be trusted.... -Carowyn Something like beet...
7224 Jo Anne Fatherly
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Oct 11, 2008
3:00 am
So, I assume someone is going to write this up for the newsletter? Johanna...
7225 Lady Biya
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Oct 11, 2008
2:54 pm
oh, if someone could write something up, that would be WONDERFUL. I would love to be able to take piles of undyed toy pieces and soak them into fruit juice or...
7226 Amy Provost
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Oct 11, 2008
3:07 pm
Absolutely! Since laundering and color fastness isn't an issue like with fabric, there's no need for the extra mordant steps. If you're boiling beets for...
7227 Lady Biya
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Oct 11, 2008
8:06 pm
hmmm. my birds like cooked yams. If i saved the water from making them yams, would it dye their toys? or is that a bad example?...
7228 Nicole Young
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Oct 13, 2008
2:19 am
Good my lady Biya; The water that you cooked the yams in would not necesarily have enough colour to change the wood.... anything that dyes or colors food would...
7229 moirabreabadair Offline Send Email Oct 15, 2008
7:17 pm
Wouldn't adding salt or other type of sodium be too much for an animal's system to handle, according to their size? ... is used as a food colorant for us......
7230 Amy Provost
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Oct 15, 2008
7:40 pm
I wouldn't think so - my bird loves corn chips.... On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:32 PM, moirabreabadair ... -- www.crookedwall.org www.bthumbstudios.com...
7231 Rodrigo Belmonte
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Oct 20, 2008
9:20 pm
Just as a reminder, tomorrow evening is the Demo at Robberson Elementary School in North Springfield. Demo starts at 530, please plan to be there at 5pm (or as...
7232 Rickard, Patty
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Oct 21, 2008
1:07 pm
Please indicate what state in post. many of us have no way of telling where you are. From: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com]...
7233 Rodrigo Belmonte
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Oct 21, 2008
1:22 pm
My apologies.. the Demo is tonight at the Robberson Elemntary at 1100 Kearney St, in Springfield, Mo. In service to the Dream,   Rodrigo Belmonte Web-Minister...
7234 Rickard, Patty
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Oct 21, 2008
3:28 pm
My apologies.. the Demo is tonight at the Robberson Elemntary at 1100 Kearney St, in Springfield, Mo Thanks so much - out of range for me, but have a great...
7235 Jennifer Dobyns
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Oct 22, 2008
2:32 am
Greetings, I seem to have been blessed with a bumper crop of Aloe this season. Having re-potted it last fall, I had not quite expected it to double in size....
7236 Foster, Laurie E. US...
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Oct 22, 2008
10:53 am
I second this request. I, too, have a bumper crop! YIS Lore ... From: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
7237 Amy Provost
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Oct 22, 2008
11:29 am
How about making a face cream or burn salve/lotion? For burns I would mix with oils of st johns wort (my bumper crop this year) and comfrey. I've always used...
7238 Foster, Laurie E. US...
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Oct 22, 2008
11:45 am
Thanks! On the St. John's Wort, did you do greens or flowers? (I have some flower oil that I made through infusion). I had several bumper crops this year -...
7239 Amy Provost
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Oct 22, 2008
11:57 am
I used both. If you make your extraction with fresh material, it comes out a fantastic deep burgundy color! Extracting dried material still has medicinal...
7240 Carowyn Silveroak
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Oct 22, 2008
7:04 pm
Greetings, Has anyone been keeping track of what they get bumper crops of and what years it occurs? I try to keep note of it in a little journal, along with a...
7241 Robin Kennedy
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Oct 23, 2008
3:09 am
Does anyone have documentation of medieval usage of aloe? or what cultures used it? Maereta...
7242 Amy Provost
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Oct 23, 2008
1:47 pm
Just about every culture in the Mediterranean used it. There's documentation in Egypt, Greece, Rome. Dioscorides and Pliny both wrote about it, so that would...
7243 Foster, Laurie E. US...
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Oct 23, 2008
7:49 pm
This is a really interesting idea. Perhaps we could put a section on the group for folks to post their location and bumper crops by season/year and we could...
7244 Lady Biya
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Oct 23, 2008
8:03 pm
There is a gentle in Anestorra in my aviculture guild who is autocrating a Viking event. She's also putting together one of the first aviculture A&S displays...
7245 kingstaste Offline Send Email Oct 23, 2008
8:04 pm
My first question would be, did Vikings keep birds in cages? _____ From: SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCA-Herbalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lady...
7246 Amy Provost
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Oct 23, 2008
8:08 pm
My bumper crops this year were st john's wort, red clover, oregano, thyme, and catnip. Last year was the year of the peppermint and oregano. Ameline ... -- ...
7247 Dianna Haught
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Oct 23, 2008
8:23 pm
As far as I know grapes don't grow in Norway, or Iceland and can't be grown there. A native wine is made from crowberry I think. But grapes grew abundantly...
7248 Lady Biya
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Oct 23, 2008
9:25 pm
Well the use in this case is two-fold: as perches and as toys. The cages themselves are, for very good safety reasons, made of stainless steel. She's bringing...
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