The other day it got up to 60 degrees and wiped out 100% of the snow, now it is back to being cold, little snow, etc....such weather is making the Maple Syrup guys get their buckets ready. We put an order in for 100 gallons of Maple Syrup from the only local guy that doesn't remove the minerals from the Syrup, hopefully this will last for well over a year, etc...we came up short this year and was able to buy his last gallon which will last us until he has this season's syrup. Otherwise we checked our amish sources and they were all out of Maple Syrup.
The other thing about thawing ground is you can dig the ROOT HERBS. These plants absorbed all the SUN had to give them last summer and started using these nutrients all winter in prepreation to create new buds and the eventual new plant. SO, if you want the VERY BEST, you get your shovel out and start digging when the ground thaws. I was getting low on Echinacea Root and went out and dug 6 gallons of roots and that will last me a few years as far as making herbal products. The perfect match for the Echinacea Rt. would be the Goldenseal Rt. those 2 mixed 50/50 are well known traditional remedy for the common cold/disease in cildren/adult alike.
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COMMERCIAL SOURCES
those place with websites that are attract and easy to take your $$$$ as fast as you can type in your info, etc....ask them where they get their Echinacea Roots they use in their formulas and odds are they come in a bag from a forign country or at best, a REAL DOWN TO EARTH herbalist owned business, will grow/dig their own, but they will dry them first or the commercial places will "FORCE" dry the roots very fast, etc...and few places will ever use the herbs to their best abilities...simply because it is too much effort for them to do.
I know no one takes as much care to make a dewormer as I do, none of them will take the time to study what a herbal dewormer even is and fewer yet learn what it takes to make the herbs work. THEY, just look at a book and make their liquids/capsules as cheap as possible and rely on "advertising" to sale their product. While we rely on word of mouth to sale our product. We spent $50 on advertising one time 10 years ago and seen it was $50 thrown out the window and decided to never do that again. The amish spread the word about our dewormer and other products and then eventually I stumbled upon the curezone and eventually a man with ill intentions created the first website, then when that went very sour, a SECOND MAN made one and it went "south" as well, that is when I wanted a website to go along with this forum and with help from others we have managed to have some type of store on the website which would make it an expense or type of "advertising" that cost $180.00 per year and that is all we spend yearly on advertising...BUT, 80+% of our products are still purchased by AMISH, because 10+ years ago they started spreading the word and that word has never stopped spreading.........and none of those Amish Customers have ever read a single word on this forum or seen the website...
THE REASON
word of mouth works best...it is cheap and the opinions are not manipulated by $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...ALL those level marketng sales people LIE about their products because their goal is to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and con the next joker into doing the same and like parasites they all live off their host.....
With the country baskets & spices products....we simple use the best available herbs when we can...why do we do that? BECAUSE I grew up a poor kid, put my 30 years in the hole (lead factory) and lived pay check to pay check all my adult life and I couldn't afford those commercial herbal products and I learned to go dig up my own, simple because I AM CHEAP!!!!! and luckily being CHEAP lead me to doing it BETTER!
That is also why I am BIG on BOOK I, simply because it is the CURE for ALL when applied correctly and every CHEAP person on the planet has zero excuses to do it, because they don't have to buy ANYTHING from me or anyone.....and ONLY those that have EXTRA $$$$ to spend, they they do not need and want to use herbs, do I suggest buy a product from us. I havealways said: "IF" your living from pay check to pay check" DO NOT GIVE US YOUR HARD EARNED $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$! Do as BOOK I instructs and save your $$$$ for fresh fruits, etc...
AND TO THIS DAY
Who buys most of our herbs? The poorest people of the land, the American Amish....often some families make less than $2,000.00 per year, but they care more for their kids health and seek herbs more than the average person and are willing to spend a large percentage of their income on herbs/health. Like many, they are victims of magazines sent to their homes selling vitamin/herbs...
I KNOW of no AMISH HERBALIST making a good strong herbal product. There are a few men making horse remedies and the such and one man making syrups...but other than that, even the poor amish seek commercial herbs...wich never made sense to me...because I was poor enough I never wanted to buy something that I could go outside and DIG UP FOR FREE!
Where I live we are surrounded with the best of the best wild herbs, the black walnut tree is the dominant tree on our property. We have dozens of Gingko trees, wild mulberry trees, wild elderberry bushes, wild grapes and the woods and pastures loaded with all the common herbs that Dr. John R. Christopher teaches how to use in his books, so to this day, I basically sale the Dr. Christopher books because they are for the poor family that are willing to go out to Nature and dig their own herbs.
WILD CRAFTING is superior
BUT, do you know in the USA, it is basiclly ILEGAL to dig up any weed in AMERICA.............yes, the masons/who owns ALL WEEDS, they have laws saying this, but no one inforces their thousands of laws.......the law says, "IF" you want to harvest a weed on your own land, you must have that weed marked/identified and surrounded with a BORDER!!!!! SO YOU KNOW the #### with all that higher education coming from the UN/WHO have the intentions someday of making all herbs ilegal and that is the roots behind the codex/who/un world dicatorship that our new president is more than willing to usher into ever American Home very soon!
The world has been at war for 2,000 years with the pope....the pope has always won the battles, invaded the countries, murdered off every non christian religion and known as the dark ages or simple call it the days of NOAH when the end is near...and the rocks are coming! I hope we have another 1,000 years, before all hell breaks loose, but when you look at the past 100 years, higher education has lead to the xtinction of freedom faster than anytime in world history. The smart people know how to spray us/inject us ...........FARM US!
If you don't like being the "stock" on the farm, learn to be free....it starts with your health...don't let them POISON YOUR HEALTH, once poisoned, they own you!
MH