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So many of our Yule and Christmas memories and traditions involve herbs - Share your favourite festive herbs!

Thanksgiving Season draws near, and we're inviting POSTS about the one herb you're MOST THANKFUL for! Prizes!!

More is better, right? Join in our informative comment thread about mixing herbs - synergies and interactions

The Rest Of April Is Root Month!

Hi Herbies! Each month The Herbal Hive puts out a challenge for keen herbal folk to use as a starting point for a post. It's a great opportunity to go on a journey of discovery and to learn from one another!

What a lovely set of posts for this month's herbal challenge, based around the theme of 'detox'. You can read all the Week 1 entries here - thanks @umirais, @traisto, @tydynrain, @blackberryskunk and @hindavi

We're a week into the montly challenge and we've already got three great entries that respond to the prompt DETOX. We hope you enjoy this summary post that aims to give you food for thought. There's a

Hey herbies!! It's the beginning of the month and as you might already know, our theme this month is DETOX. You can write anything around this theme you like! How might plants be used to detoxify? What

One of the things we love about communities on HIVE is the writing challenges that are posed, forcing us to think about how we feel about certain topics. With this in mind, we'd like to present a writing

Plus, the topic for the March challenge!

One of the questions we get asked the most is whether it's okay to write about something that we wouldn't normally think of as a 'herb'. People might say, well, I was going to write about my home made

@laviesm wrote about SLEEP for the rest challenge. Sleep is something that's harder to come by in the modern world it seems - we live a fast paced life with many anxieties, so it's little wonder we're

We're a big believer in the body's nourishment in the Herbal Hive, and what better nourishment is there than rest for the first part of the year? One needs to let the seed take form in the dark ground,

With Christmas and New Year just gone, people have been busy on HIVE so there's not been a lot of #herbalmedicine content - but boy we're excited about what HAS been going on and are looking forward to

Seasonal magical festive greetings to you all, herbies! Whether you're in a freezing European winter or by the fire in the Americas, or in warmer climates, Christmas ain't Christmas without some spicey

The evident theme for this collection is tea or infusions - from drying fruits to combinations to fight colds such as oregano, eucalyptus and tangerine. I'm amazed at how often oregano makes it's way into

Oooooh, we've been looking forward to this one! This challenge is something special and I'm sure you are all going to have a tremendous amount of fun with it. The challenge is to make your own christmas

What a creative lot of posts from eager herbalists discovering about this ancient process of extracting herbal medicine! Following their intuition and guided by the plants around them, these herbies came

A collection of awesome #herbalism and #plantmedicine posts. IT's been a while since we've published one of these, and we're changing how we do it a little. Now, TWO people will be chosen as random to

The first week of the OXYMEL challenge is over, and there's been quite a bit of excitement over discovering how to make your very own, very easy herbal extraction with vinegar that's as good for you as