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Category: Medicinals

We talk about food security but not so much about medicine security. This is a series about the plants with a good evidence base for medicinal use. They all have garden ecosystem and culinary uses too, so worth growing anyhow, and having them in the growing close at hand might give you a small measure of security in the wild west of late capitalism.

Garden Pharmacy – Chamomile

So, a series on the easy to grow, multiple-use herbs I grow at least partly for their medicinal use. A retrosuburbia garden medicine chest. After my cold last week, I started to think about how useful it is to have basic medicinals growing where I can just go out and pick, even when I am quarantining so as not to pass my germs on, even if pharmaceuticals get tangled up…