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The Herb Hunter

Welcome to a five minute window into the world of wildcrafting and follow me each week as i take you through the undergrowth collecting medicine from the earth, for the people. This podcast was originally recorded live and off the cuff for KSER natashaclarke.substack.com

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/03/05

Carrying on with the love affair! but why not, it’s such a worthy focus of attention. as we get through nettle season. And as we start to slow down in the nettle patches we start to embrace that goddess of all time and healing Elder. Stay tuned! and please bombard me with your nettle stories :)Updates from the Undergrowth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.All the websites mentioned on the show have now faded and

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/02/26

More and then more on my favourite plant, inspired by the image of Roman soldiers guarding Hadrians wall while beating themselves with nettle so they wouldn’t freeze to death. All the websites mentioned on the show have now faded and no longer exist - however all my contact info for herbal and other inquiries can be found here and any resources mentioned can be found here.Such sweet medicine of discernment, indeed a whole essay of it below and first published here:The Nettle in MeA love letter to

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Magic with chickweed

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/02/19

More on the uses of chickweed, a continuous reminder of how we have so much bounty around us and also an ask to look closely. I have never done anything that exciting with chickweed although upon reflection I might preserve it in vinegar or wine, all old school ways of preserving mineral rich herbs. You can totally add it to pestos etc, however I have always found it most beneficial to simply stand in the field and eat it like a horse.Updates from the Undergrowth is a reader-supported publication

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Nettle

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/02/12

So I’ve written a lot about this amazing friend and will include links but here are some of the many nettle herb hunter episodes that I have done over the years. Such a robust plant! As you can hear in this episode. This is the first time I recorded nettlefor the herb hunter and I love hearing how I get all worked up the longer I hang out with them. Invigorating is definitely a key word. All the websites mentioned on the show have now faded and no longer exist - however all my contact info for

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The Gentle Giants

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/02/05

So even though it’s still winter and cold and often freezing, foragers, herbalists, medicine makers, outliers and that rare of rare people who live life on the hoop are getting geared up for the prominence of spring. For the next 6 or so weeks I will be interplaying the magic of two very wonderful and so readily available fantastic herbs, chickweed and nettle. They both start emerging now and in fact chickweed is often with us all through winter if you’re say in England or the north west coast.This

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/01/29

So I have to say, after having gone through the covid years that the BCW tincture was one of the best things ever for that insanely painful sore throat. Simply fill a mason jar with all the fresh buds and all cover it with 190 proof alchohol - or the highest proof you can get (as we are dealing with a very resinous herb.) Put your lid on and then leave for at least 3 weeks shaking regularly, again thanks to the high resinous aspect of the medicine and needing to get it really “dissolved” or taken up

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/01/22

A bit of a rant on mono cultures and the mindset that comes with that. More on the medicine and recipes next week.hugs and lovethe herb hunterAll the websites mentioned on the show have now faded and no longer exist - however all my contact info for herbal and other inquiries can be found here and any resources mentioned can be found here. Get full access to Updates from the Undergrowth at natashaclarke.substack.com/subscribe

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/01/15

As we move into the ecosystem of black cotton wood.For those of you who dont have access to black cotton wood and would like to get your hands on some of these wondrous sticky buds you can purchase ethically wildcrafted buds from my friends Reisha and Gabewww.waysidebotanicals.com/shopAll the websites mentioned on the show have now faded and no longer exist - however all my contact info for herbal and other inquiries can be found here and any resources mentioned can be found here. Get full access to

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The Herb Hunter

The Herb Hunter ·

2025/01/08

This month we celebrate the glory of black cotton wood with 4 recordings made between 2016 and 2019. Its a fitting start to the podcast as it was the beginning of the herb hunter radio show all those years ago and indeed where I got the first flash of insight, on a cold crispy January morning as I crept through the sandy black cottonwood groves on the bank of the great Skagit river. And indeed this is the first recording I ever made, its very stilted, way too slow and hesitant as I had yet to hit my

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River run through me

The Herb Hunter ·

2022/10/06

Greetings my lovelies, this month brings with it the settling and resting of my spirit, my feelings and my thoughts as routines begin to take hold and expectations are somewhat able to be met.Todays meditation is inspired by the river and the season, the season in which we look to what we let go off, what has passed through us this year and the emptying, the release before we go fallow with winter.The river held me all summer. I am about 5 mins away from one of the forks of the Snoqualmie, our

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Getting to the heart of the matter

The Herb Hunter ·

2022/06/01

It’s hawthorn time, full bloom time and it’s time I rouse myself and gather the flowers of this incredibly important medicine, since it supports the heart.Involving the heart has been tricky for me, in practice. Acting from the heart, speaking from the heart, being all heart is something that seems simple in my mind hah! Oh my mind. It wants in at all times, to manage things, and really to override and oversee. So it’s hard to balance that mind heart thing, the mind so overprotective while the heart

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Meditating with Gentle Giants

The Herb Hunter ·

2022/04/20

I love this little plant that is out right now in all its stunning beauty in my neck of the woods, named for the stars, the beautiful Chickweed, Stellaria media.I hope you enjoy the 15 minute long meditation that was inspired from chickweed, as I sat in the field with her and called her in to guide and prompt me. Hang on, this is an aspect of herbal medicine that might be confusing to some, and indeed still is not a linear process for myself, or simple, or even something I get right (see later),

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Unfurling

The Herb Hunter ·

2022/03/11

I was pretty blown away when I had my first herbal meditation. I mean what is that even? Well I was attending a year long herb program and about 40 of us were sitting in a large room and we were spending the weekend with a guest teacher who was mostly a wild forager and medicine maker. Of course he was much much more, however as a sort of close to the first day he said something like “let’s find out about this plants medicine” and passed around an unlabelled tincture which we all took a drop of and

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