Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M.S.

The growing season can provide many different medicines straight from your yard or garden, sometimes wild and sometimes cultivated. Here are a few of my favorites to make for our family from our farm: ...

The book “Herbs for Flavor, Health and Natural Beauty” has an amazing array of herb-filled recipes, but also a crafting chapter that features how-tos on candles, lip balm, sugar scrub and more. Here’s ...

Calendula, commonly known as pot marigold, has been used for centuries in herbal medicine for its remarkable skin-healing properties. Extracted from the flowers of Calendula officinalis, calendula ...

When the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors planted an herb garden at the magazine offices in the spring of 2015, our expectations were low. The weather stayed unnaturally cool, cloudy and soggy for weeks. So, ...

CARNATION, Wash. -- It's harvest time in these flower fields, and PCC'S Lynne Vea helped Angelique Saffle, owner of Bodyceuticals, pluck the yellow and orange calendula flowers that she would later ...