Fireweed for Wine

Eight cups of Fireweed Epilobium augustifolium blossoms drying for use in fireweed wine. I plan to include a pinch of hibiscus for color and red rose petals for an indefinable extra taste using this recipe.

Arnica unalaschcensis for the medicine chest ...

I was so happy to find Arnica here on Adak--I will be making infused oil for making salves and massage oil for sore muscles and contusions.
Arnica unalaschcensis flowers and sepals
Arnica unalaschcensis after sepals have beenremoved prior to drying.

Several ounces of dried Arnica.

A New Beginning ...

From a tiny 1-bedroom farmhouse with creaky stairs and an established herb garden, potager and mini-orchard

to a 4-bedroom ranch-style home with only a matted lawn and no trees in sight.

Join me as I begin again ...