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Hi'iaka's Healing Herb Garden : Newsletter index : 2000 News : Summer 00
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Volume 1, Number 4 Summer 2000
Beautiful New Gate and Sign
Thanks so much to my old friend Wayne Ahrens for creating a lovely sign for the garden. I feel as if I have officially hung up my shingle. Local friends Scott and Lorenzo fashioned a gate of 'Ohia that really makes the place look professional and polished.
Kava Kava Kicks Anxiety
Kava kava, or 'awa, is native to Polynesia and has important ritual, cultural, and healing significance.
I'm partnering with several 'awa growers here in the Puna district and am offering this remarkable herb in these forms: dried leaf for smoking and tea, chopped whole plant for tea and tincture, and powdered root for traditional 'awa ceremonies. Ready-made 'awa products include a massage oil, tinctures, teas and tonics. My best-selling product is an herbal smoking blend called "Awa of the Goddess," which I created to help smokers kick the tobacco habit. We've added a page to our web site for Kava kava: check it out at www.lava.net/hiiakas/kava.html. And watch for our ad in the upcoming issues of Herbs For Health and Herb Companion magazines.
Baby Plants Help Teach Herbalism
One of the most wonderful things about herbs is that they grow so fast--like weeds! The seeds that we started in late May are doing so well that we've begun selling plants at the Pahoa Sunday farmer's market. The reception has been excellent and we're happy to be teaching about the healing plants and encouraging people to grow them commercially for the constantly burgeoning herbal products industry.
We are growing: echinacea, comfrey, valerian, Baikal skullcap, peppermint, Madagascar periwinkle, motherwort, mugwort, lobelia, wood betony, St. John's wort, spilanthes, woad, Clary sage, figwort, calendula, kava, Roman and German chamomile, lemon balm, forsythia, feverfew, balloon flower, prunella, Chinese licorice, and the list keeps growing.
We Love Our Garden Helpers
Welcome to Valerie Albers and Theresa Billian, who are working hard to build the garden beds, plant the keiki (baby) plants, and do a lot of weeding. The garden is becoming as much theirs as it is mine and I couldn't do it without them. I'll be relying on them even more in the coming weeks as I heal from hip replacement surgery. Mahalo nui loa, dear ladies!
Volume 1, Number 4 Summer 2000
Beautiful New Gate and Sign
Thanks so much to my old friend Wayne Ahrens for creating a lovely sign for the garden. I feel as if I have officially hung up my shingle. Local friends Scott and Lorenzo fashioned a gate of 'Ohia that really makes the place look professional and polished.
Kava Kava Kicks Anxiety
Kava kava, or 'awa, is native to Polynesia and has important ritual, cultural, and healing significance.
I'm partnering with several 'awa growers here in the Puna district and am offering this remarkable herb in these forms: dried leaf for smoking and tea, chopped whole plant for tea and tincture, and powdered root for traditional 'awa ceremonies. Ready-made 'awa products include a massage oil, tinctures, teas and tonics. My best-selling product is an herbal smoking blend called "Awa of the Goddess," which I created to help smokers kick the tobacco habit. We've added a page to our web site for Kava kava: check it out at www.lava.net/hiiakas/kava.html. And watch for our ad in the upcoming issues of Herbs For Health and Herb Companion magazines.
Baby Plants Help Teach Herbalism
One of the most wonderful things about herbs is that they grow so fast--like weeds! The seeds that we started in late May are doing so well that we've begun selling plants at the Pahoa Sunday farmer's market. The reception has been excellent and we're happy to be teaching about the healing plants and encouraging people to grow them commercially for the constantly burgeoning herbal products industry.
We are growing: echinacea, comfrey, valerian, Baikal skullcap, peppermint, Madagascar periwinkle, motherwort, mugwort, lobelia, wood betony, St. John's wort, spilanthes, woad, Clary sage, figwort, calendula, kava, Roman and German chamomile, lemon balm, forsythia, feverfew, balloon flower, prunella, Chinese licorice, and the list keeps growing.
We Love Our Garden Helpers
Welcome to Valerie Albers and Theresa Billian, who are working hard to build the garden beds, plant the keiki (baby) plants, and do a lot of weeding. The garden is becoming as much theirs as it is mine and I couldn't do it without them. I'll be relying on them even more in the coming weeks as I heal from hip replacement surgery. Mahalo nui loa, dear ladies!
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