As I was eating breakfast this morning I watched leaves flutter from the trees. Fluttering leaves always leave me feeling wistful. I love the scent of fall, but it's odd to think that that wonderful smell is really decaying leaves. And there's nothing like the thrill of shuffling through papery multi-colored leaves to kick up that wonderful scent.
I started out my fall season by attending a very inspirational conference. Now I'm looking forward to my fifth clinic anniversary on 10/10/10. Try your luck with my anniversary celebration.
As the leaves come down it means that we should be putting food up - just like the squirrels. Read all about The Seed And Me and improve your vision with this month's featured recipe.
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Awesome Herbal Conference
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View from Ghost Ranch  | I recently attended the most inspirational conference, Traditions in Western Herbalism (TWH), at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. This year was the inaugural year for TWH. It was a resounding success, so there will be many inspiring years to come. It's the first conference that I have ever attended that was infused with joy.
I was inspired by the landscape at Ghost Ranch. Georgia O'Keefe was known to have spent time painting at Ghost Ranch. The weather was beautiful, so our classes were held outdoors. The teachers were incredible. I had three teachers in mind that I wanted to study with: Paul Bergner, Howie Brounstein and 7Song. All three teachers have their own herbal schools, so it wasn't a surprise that they were all excellent teachers. Most of the classes I attended focused on digestive health, and I'll be putting that information to good use in clinic.
The conference also featured entertainment at night (which is where part of the joy came from). Rosemary Gladstar, founder of United Plant Savers, was our featured speaker on Saturday evening. In her spunky way she encouraged us to spread the herbal renaissance throughout our communities.
Rosemary was followed by Rising Appalachia, a duo featuring two sisters (Leah and Chloe) from Atlanta, Georgia. Rising Appalachia has risen to the top of my play list. I just can't get enough of their sound - which is a bit hard to describe so you'll have to check out their new CD, The Sails of Self, for yourself.
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Five Year Anniversary Drawing
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 My, but how time flies! It's hard to
believe that I will be celebrating the five year anniversary of my very
own acupuncture and herbal clinic on October 10th - 10/10/10.
I
thought long and hard about how to celebrate my anniversary. I love to
enter drawings - I'm quite lucky at them, so I decided upon a drawing. The drawing will add a bit of excitement to the crisp October air.
The
drawing will be open for the entire month of October. Enter the
drawing any time you come in for an acupuncture visit or stop in up on
the third floor of my office (no purchase necessary). The winners will
be drawn on Monday, November 1st.
Grand Prize: Gift certificate for three acupuncture sessions. Valued at $250.
1st Prize: Gift certificate for three stress-relieving sessions featuring auricular (ear) acupuncture. Valued at $150.
2nd Prize: Private class for you and 5 of your closest friends. Choose from any class on my class list. Class will be taught at my clinic at Avenues of Health. Valued at $150.
All prizes valid until 11/1/2011.
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Putting Up The Good Stuff
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The squirrels have been crazy busy with their bounty of black walnuts this fall. Their sense of urgency is rubbing off on me too. I feel like my husband, Dan, and I must put up AS MUCH FOOD AS POSSIBLE for the upcoming winter.
Dan has been canning tomatoes, tomato sauce, ketchup, salsa and pizza sauce. On my to-do list is to can pickled beets, ferment kim-chi, freeze the collard greens, harvest the seeds of coriander and dill, and dehydrate apples. Plus we'll be filling our root cellar soon with root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and hopefully sweet potatoes. This was the first year that we planted sweet potatoes, so it will be a big surprise to see how many we actually get from the sprawling vines.
The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest cookbook has been a great resource for how to preserve our garden's bounty. It contains 150 recipes for freezing, canning, drying and pickling fruits and vegetables.
You, too, can can. The co-ops often offer classes on canning, and there's plenty of instruction available on-line. Besides having the flavors of summer available in the winter, canning offers that oh-so-satisfying sound of the lids sweetly popping as they seal once they come out of their hot water bath.
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The Seed And Me
| Giving Tree Gardens. . .Enchanting. Organic. Gardens.
 I met Russ Henry years ago when I first dug my hands into the dirt to plant a flower garden. Back then Russ was working at a neighborhood garden center, and he provided me with plenty of advice and assistance to sow the seeds of success in my garden. Nowadays he is the owner of Giving Tree Gardens, a full service organic gardening and landscaping company. Giving Tree Gardens is responsible for the lush gardens at the Seward Co-op, and he would be your man if you would like to add a little lushness to your garden too. Once the gardens are covered with snow he also offers snow removal.
Russ sends out an e-newsletter, The Seed, every month. In fact, it was his newsletter that inspired me to create and write my own newsletter. Guess who was featured in his latest edition of The Seed? Me!!! I've never been "featured" before, so the glowing account made be blush a bit. Read all about it here.
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Recipe of the Month
| Turkish Carrots
 We're moving into root vegetable season already - whether we like it or not!
This easy recipe calls for chopping the carrots into thick coins. Notice how the coin looks like an eye/iris. Carrots have been known to improve and maintain vision, especially night vision. In herbalism this connection between what a plant looks like or where and how it grows is called the Doctrine of Signature.
Another example of the Doctrine of Signature appears in walnuts. Walnuts benefit the brain - which is fairly obvious when you look at a walnut. You can see the two halves/hemispheres of the brain as well as the gyri.
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 As always. . .
your first wealth is health.
Katherine Krumwiede, L.Ac.
Diamond Stone Oriental Medicine, Inc.
612 872 9133
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Quote of
the Month
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| Beauty for some provides
escape,
who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape
or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
1902-1967
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Newsletter Archive
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There's a wealth of health-inducing information contained in past issues of my newsletter.
Newsletter Archive
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Gift Certificates Are Available
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Give the gift of good health to your friends and family.
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The Benefits
of Acupuncture
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De-stress
Alleviate pain
Improve concentration levels
Lift the cloud
of depression
Get a better night's sleep
Improve digestion
Boost energy levels
Insure success with smoking cessation
Excellent preventative medicine
And many more. . .
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