The Healthy Herb Podcast

A Super Food for Menopausal Women: heart, cognitive, digestive and hormonal health in one yummy food

Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint a

Healthy Menopause: Raw or Cooked Food? What is best for nutrition?

Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked ve

Healthy Menopause: Top 5 Foods for Menopausal Women

Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods?  How can y

Healthy Menopause: Optimum Nutrition part 1

What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find ou

Healthy Menopause series: Introduction, defining peri-menopause and menopause

Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopau

The Roots and Herbs of Halloween

Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, an

Coffee: History, Folklore, and Medicine

Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine. Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreo

Have an Epic Herb-Inspired Spring Day

Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an her

Hawthorn: Apple's Wild and Witchy Cousin

Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folk

Understanding Herbs Through Taste with Meghan Rhodes

The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism. Meghan

Herbs, Travel, and HerbRally with Mason Hutchison

Brighid interviews Mason Hutchison of HerbRally. We talk about Mason's early plant experiences, the inspiration behind HerbRally and The Art of Frugal Nutrition, some cur

Top Herbs to Tincture and Why (Tincture 101 part 3)

This episode covers the top herbs that I make sure I tincture every year and why. Learn how to decipher which herbs work best as tinctures and which do not, plus, how to

Tincture Making 101 (part 2): 4 Methods

Learn about the 4 methods of making tinctures and the pros and cons of each one. Brighid discusses her favorite method, how to make a great tincture and a bit about dosin

Tincture Making 101 (Part 1)

This episode discusses what a tincture is, the history of tinctures and alcohol distillation, and general concepts around tincture making. https://www.solidagoherbschool

Catnip, it's Not Just for Cats!

Catnip is an herb that benefits humans in a number of ways. It supports the health of the digestive, immune, nervous and reproductive system health and is an especially h

Schisandra, the 5 Flavored Fruit

Schisandra berry is an adaptogen the builds energy reserves, increases resilience and benefits the whole body in a variety of ways. Learn all about the 5 flavored fruit a

Top 6 Herbs for the Cold and Flu Season

The top 6 herbs that helped my family during the early cold and flu season plus thoughts about the wheel of the year, goals for 2023, and a story about my first relations

Foraging Herbs and Making Home Remedies with Dacia Dailey

Brighid and Dacia have an inspiring and informative conversation about foraging wild herbs through the seasons, making tasty herbal concoctions, and having a small herbal

Transpersonal Herbalism and Plant Spirit Medicine with Kylee Foote

Brighid Doherty and Kylee Foote talk about transpersonal herbalism, plant spirit medicine, Kylee's favorite herbs, and so much more!  Yarrow, rose, plantain, elecampane,

Weaving a Web of Herbalists and Herbs with Harmonie O'Loughlin

Brighid and Harmonie talk about becoming an herbalist, making a product line, growing herbs, growing an herbal community, and producing an herbal publication. Harmonie i