A nice start to the St. John's Wort season. We'll be seeing lots of these throughout the hills over the next couple of months.
St. John's Wort is a lazy forager's plant. No getting up at the crack of dawn to harvest these! They love nothing more than being blasted by the afternoon Sun, so treat yourself to lunch before you set out.
Make sure you are Sun smart though, take a drink and a hat. Be prepared too for purple fingers from the oil.
I have a favourite spot to harvest them. I thought it was a secret but if you look in the last pix, someone's painted a big X in the sky above the place 😁
Some of you may have seen that I've been writing a series of posts about herbs and making herbal remedies at home. I want to share what I know of this topic so that, as the world gets crazier, folks will have other avenues of medical care, namely those of themselves and their community. If you look back over this blog, you can see heaps of info on the topic, plus loads and loads of posts on herbs and using Australian bushfoods from a white perspective. If you haven't been around on in the @hivegarden and @naturalmedicine communities for long, you may be interested in looking back. There's w-a-a-a-a-y too much there for me to repost and the Hive system doesn't let you vote on old posts so, if you're happy with what you find, I believe that there is now a tip option...
I was very struck by the X in the sky haha 😂