I have been interested in herbal medicine since I was a teenager and Stuart took several ethnobotany courses in college including Northwest Indiana Native Uses of Plants where he learned what the indigenous peoples of the region used many different native plants for. The course was also practical and taught techniques for making salves, poultices, […]
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Poetry Analysis: Two Views of a Garden
Mary Oliver’s “On Not Mowing the Lawn.” and Andrew Marvell’s “Garden” both deal with themes of nature, gardens, and the reversion of order to wildness. “On Not Mowing the Lawn” is exuberant and commands us to let the lawn be, to let the grass spring up and the birds sing and the crickets chirp. In […]
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