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The Happy Herbal Kitchen, developed from a passion rooted in plants and herbal knowledge!
🍋🌿 SOUR, SASSY & SECRETLY POWERFUL! 🌿🍋
Did you know this lemon-kissed garden green has been treasured for centuries as both food and traditional herbal medicine? ✨
Meet SORREL (Rumex acetosa) — the tangy wild green with a fascinating history, nourishing qualities and a little herbal magic hiding in every leaf! 🌱🔮
But there’s something you should know before adding it to your herbal repertoire… 👀
🌿 discover the secrets of sorrel!
Think Goldenrod is just a pretty yellow w**d? Think again…
🌑✨ THE LUCKY NEW MOON IN LIBRA ♎️✨
October 10 | A moment to choose what truly lights you up
There are moments when the universe seems to whisper:
“What do you really want?”
This New Moon in Libra invites us to pause, clear away the noise, and listen—not to what we should want, not to what others expect of us, but to what makes our spirit feel alive. ✨
Libra reminds us that manifestation begins with alignment.
Before we ask the universe to bring something into our lives, we can become clear about what we are actually calling in.
🌿 What brings you joy?
🌙 What makes your heart feel lighter?
✨ What dreams keep returning to you?
🔥 What truly lights you up?
🍂 What are you ready to release so there is room for something new?
Tonight, make a little space for yourself.
Light a candle.
Open a window.
Step outside beneath the dark moon sky.
Write down what you desire—not from fear or scarcity, but from possibility.
Then whisper your intentions into the night:
“I am clear about what I desire.
I trust the unfolding.
I welcome what is meant for me.
I release what no longer belongs.
I make room for what lights me up.”
And then… let the universe participate. 🌌
Not everything has to be forced into existence. Sometimes manifestation is also about recognizing the doors that are already beginning to open.
🌸 A New Moon in Libra Tea
Create a gentle little Libra New Moon tea ritual with herbs that evoke balance, beauty, love, and harmony:
🌹 Rose petals — love, compassion, beauty & heart-opening
🌿 Lemon balm — joy, ease & emotional brightness
🌼 Chamomile — peace, balance & gentle relaxation
🌺 Hibiscus — passion, vitality & the courage to follow your heart
✨ A little cinnamon — warmth, attraction & the spark of intention
New Moon Libra Tea
1 tsp rose petals
1 tsp lemon balm
½ tsp chamomile
½ tsp hibiscus
A small piece of cinnamon
Steep in freshly boiled water for 7–10 minutes. Strain, breathe deeply, and enjoy while writing your intentions.
As you sip, ask yourself:
“If I knew the universe was supporting me… what would I dare to want?” ✨
May this New Moon bring clarity to your heart, harmony to your path, and a little more of whatever makes you feel wonderfully, unmistakably alive. 🌙♎️🌹
For the good of all.
🌿✨ From The Happy Herbal Kitchen ✨🌿
🍂 LET THE LEAVES LIE 🍂
A little autumn mess can be a beautiful gift to your garden.
As autumn begins to whisper through the garden, resist the urge to make everything perfectly tidy. Those fallen leaves are not waste — they are garden gold. 🌿
Leaf litter creates a natural blanket for the soil, helping to:
🌱 Feed the soil — As leaves slowly decompose, they return organic matter and nutrients to the earth, helping build healthy, living soil.
🪱 Support soil life — Earthworms, fungi, microorganisms and other tiny decomposers thrive beneath this natural layer.
🦋 Create winter homes — Fallen leaves provide shelter for countless insects and their eggs as they overwinter, including butterflies, moths and other beneficial garden inhabitants.
🐞 Protect beneficial insects — What looks like a pile of leaves to us may be a winter nursery, shelter, or hiding place for next season’s pollinators and garden allies.
💧 Hold moisture — A layer of leaf litter helps protect the soil from drying out and moderates soil temperature.
🌿 Build healthier gardens — Nature doesn’t rake every leaf away. Forest floors recycle their own abundance year after year, creating rich, resilient ecosystems.
So this autumn, perhaps leave some leaves where they fall. Tuck them beneath shrubs and trees, spread them over garden beds, or create a quiet little leaf pile in a corner of the garden.
And when you see a slightly messy garden this winter, remember:
Messy isn’t neglected.
Messy can mean alive. 🍂
The garden is already preparing for spring — quietly, beneath our feet.
✨ From The Happy Herbal Kitchen
Learning to garden in right relationship with the seasons, the soil, and all the little lives that call our gardens home.
09/26/2026
🌕🔥 FULL MOON IN ARIES ♈️ | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
Goldenrod • Solidago • Dreams Becoming Reality
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the first hints of autumn are settling into the garden. The days are beginning to soften, goldenrod is glowing like little stars along the edges of the fields, and tonight the Full Moon rises in fiery Aries ♈️.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac — a spark, a beginning, a sacred invitation to move forward.
This Full Moon carries the energy of courage, action, forgiveness, release, and becoming.
And what if the dreams we’ve been carrying quietly in our hearts aren’t meant to remain dreams?
What if this is the moment to give them roots? 🌱
Tonight, gather a little goldenrod (Solidago spp.) and prepare a simple golden tea. Goldenrod has long been associated with resilience, brightness, abundance, and the turning of the seasons. Its golden flowers seem almost made for moonlit ritual — little pieces of sunlight gathered for an autumn evening.
✨ Goldenrod Full Moon Tea ✨
Steep dried goldenrod in freshly boiled water for about 10 minutes. As the tea steeps, sit quietly with your intention.
Breathe.
Release what no longer belongs to you.
Forgive where forgiveness is possible.
And then ask yourself:
What am I ready to bring into reality?
Imagine your dream not as something distant, but as a seed already planted.
See it.
Feel it.
Speak its name.
Then take one small, earthly action toward it.
Because magic isn’t always about waiting for something extraordinary to happen.
Sometimes magic is the moment we decide to begin. 🔥
Let this Aries Full Moon illuminate the path ahead.
May courage replace hesitation.
May forgiveness loosen what has been held too tightly.
May what needs to leave, leave gently.
May your dreams find fertile ground.
And may the things you have whispered to the Moon begin, little by little, to become real.
🌕🌿 A golden moon.
A fiery heart.
A garden full of possibility.
A gentle herbal note: Goldenrod is a beautiful autumn ally, but as with any herb, a little knowledge and care go a long way. Be certain of your plant identification before harvesting or drinking, and if you are pregnant, nursing, have a known allergy, kidney concerns, or take medications, check with a qualified healthcare professional or herbal practitioner first. 🌿✨
For the good of all.
🍂🌿 Preparing for the Autumnal Equinox & Mabon 🌿🍂
September 22, 2026
The wheel is turning.
The light is beginning to soften.
And the garden is whispering that it is time to gather, preserve, give thanks, and prepare. 🍁
As we approach the Autumnal Equinox and Mabon, the second harvest invites us to pause between summer and winter—to notice what has grown, what has ripened, and what we have gathered along the way.
Here at The Happy Herbal Kitchen, preparation for this beautiful seasonal turning might look like:
🌿 Harvesting herbs before the cooler nights arrive—gathering what can be dried, infused, tinctured, or tucked away for winter.
🌻 Collecting seeds from the garden to carry this year’s abundance into another growing season.
🍂 Leaving some leaf litter in place—creating shelter for overwintering insects while returning precious organic matter to the soil.
🌱 Preparing perennial herbs for winter, taking cuttings where appropriate and giving established plants a little attention before dormancy.
🧄 Planting bulbs and autumn crops, trusting that some of the garden’s greatest magic happens beneath the soil where we cannot yet see it.
🫖 Bringing the harvest into the kitchen with warming teas, herbal infusions, soups, roasted roots, spiced apples, and nourishing foods that celebrate the season.
🕯️ Creating a simple Mabon ritual—light a candle, step outside, breathe deeply, and name a few things you are genuinely grateful for.
And perhaps most importantly…
🍁 Slow down.
The equinox reminds us that balance isn’t something we hold forever. It is something we continually move through.
Summer gives way to autumn.
Growth gives way to gathering.
Abundance gives way to preservation.
The garden gives back to the soil.
This is the season of gratitude, reciprocity, harvest, and release.
So as Mabon approaches, walk through your garden. Notice what is still blooming. Gather what is ready. Leave what belongs to the creatures. Return what can nourish the soil.
And give thanks for the beautiful, messy, miraculous cycle that keeps beginning again. 🌿🍂✨
May your harvest be abundant, your pantry nourishing, your garden protected, and your heart grateful.
From The Happy Herbal Kitchen 🌿
Living seasonally. Learning from the garden. Finding a little magic in the everyday.
🌕🔥 Full Moon in Aries ♈️
September 26, 2026 | The Happy Herbal Kitchen
The Full Moon in Aries arrives on September 26, bringing a bright, fiery moment in the lunar cycle. Astronomically, the Full Moon occurs at 12:49 p.m. EDT in the U.S. Eastern time zone.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac—a spark of beginnings, courage, movement, independence, and action. Traditionally associated with Mars, Aries energy invites us to ask:
🔥 What wants to begin?
🔥 Where have I been holding myself back?
🔥 What deserves my energy now?
🔥 What can I release so I can move forward?
And after the slower, reflective energy of the Virgo season, this Full Moon can be a lovely reminder that we don’t have to have every step figured out before we take the first one.
🌿 A Fiery Full Moon Tea
For this moon, I’m reaching for a warming, aromatic blend that feels like autumn in a cup:
🔥 Aries Full Moon Spice Tea
* 🌿 1 tsp dried rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus)
* 🌶️ 3–4 thin slices fresh ginger (Zingiber officinale)
* 🍂 1 small cinnamon stick (Cinnamomum verum or C. cassia)
* 🍊 2–3 strips organic orange peel (Citrus sinensis)
* 🌹 1 tsp dried rose petals (Rosa spp.)
* 🍯 Honey, to taste
Add the herbs and spices to 2 cups of just-boiled water. Cover and steep for 10–15 minutes, then strain. Add honey while warm and enjoy slowly.
The rosemary and ginger bring warming, aromatic notes, cinnamon adds cozy autumn spice, orange brightens the cup, and rose softens the whole blend into something wonderfully balanced.
A little fire. A little sweetness. A little softness. ❤️
Before drinking, take a moment to breathe deeply and set one simple intention:
“I honor my fire. I trust my first step. I move forward with purpose.”
Then step outside, look up at the moon, and let yourself remember that you are allowed to begin again. 🌕🔥🌿
From The Happy Herbal Kitchen ✨
09/18/2026
🍂🌿 Getting Ready for the Autumnal Equinox at The Happy Herbal Kitchen 🌿🍂
There’s something about the approach of the Autumnal Equinox that makes everything feel like it’s gently shifting gears. The days are getting shorter, the mornings are a little cooler, and the garden is beginning to whisper, “It’s time to prepare.” 🍁
And around here, we’re ready!
For Brayden, autumn means one very important thing… MORE WALKIES! 🐾🍂 After a long, hot summer of early-morning and late-evening walks, we are both looking forward to cooler days, longer strolls, crunchy leaves, and plenty of time outside together. ❤️
And while Brayden is busy inspecting every interesting smell along the trail, I’ll be busy in the Happy Herbal Kitchen garden:
🌷 Planting bulbs for spring’s future abundance
🌿 Harvesting herbs while they’re still at their seasonal best
🍃 Gathering seeds and saving a little garden magic for next year
🪴 Preparing tender herbs for overwintering
🍂 Cleaning, mulching, and preparing perennial herbs for their winter rest
☕ And, of course, bringing some of the garden indoors through teas, infused oils, tinctures, and nourishing seasonal preparations.
The Equinox reminds us that harvest and release can happen at the same time. We gather what is ready, preserve what we can, plant what will sleep beneath the soil, and allow the garden—and ourselves—to slow down.
So here’s to cooler walks, muddy paws, autumn gardens, full baskets, herbal preparations, and the beautiful wisdom of the changing seasons. 🍂🐾🌿
Brayden and I are ready for you, Autumn! ❤️
From The Happy Herbal Kitchen 🌿✨
09/12/2026
We have got this so wrong!!!!
🌿 THE LIFE OF A PLASTIC PLANT POT 🌿
As gardeners, we spend so much time nurturing life—planting seeds, tending soil, feeding pollinators, and creating little sanctuaries for wildlife. But there’s another part of gardening worth considering: what happens to the things we garden in.
Those little black plastic nursery pots can seem insignificant. One plant, one pot… but multiply that by thousands of gardens and millions of plants, and the amount of plastic becomes enormous.
The good news? We don’t always have to throw them away. ♻️
🌱 Reuse them. Clean and save nursery pots for starting seeds, taking cuttings, dividing plants, or sharing seedlings with friends.
🌱 Return them. Some local nurseries and garden centers accept clean pots for reuse or recycling.
🌱 Buy thoughtfully. Look for growers using recyclable, reusable, biodegradable, or plastic-free alternatives when possible.
🌱 Pass them along. Your gardening friends may have a use for the pots you’re finished with.
🌱 Choose longevity. A sturdy pot that can be used for many years is often a better choice than something intended for a single season.
And remember—recycling isn’t the first step. Reducing and reusing come first.
There is something wonderfully herbalist about this philosophy: use what you have, waste as little as possible, and remain in right relationship with the living world around you.
Our gardens aren’t separate from nature.
They are part of it. 🌎🌿
So before you toss that empty nursery pot into the bin, pause and ask:
“How many more lives can this little pot support?”
🌱♻️🌎
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