Calendula Craft

Butterflies aren't just beautiful fairies who grace our gardens, they are also key players in our local ecosystem. As adults they pollinate flowers and as caterpillars feed a birds of all kinds.

The first step to helping butterflies is of course planting organic flowers for them. But, there is so much more to butterfly ecology than planting flowers. Each and every butterfly has a unique relationship with a plant (or group of plants) called their host plants. And recently I made a video all about butterflies, host plants, and how I keep track of everything I have learned about both;

this is where I talk about ecological crafts & share updates about the earthen house we are building.

Yarrow ~ Achillea millefolium

In herbalism yarrow is considered diaphoretic, carminative, astringent, pungent, antispasmodic, and stomachic. A lot of words, I know.

So... what does all that mean?

In simpler terms, yarrow helps heat up the body, especially useful if you want to break a fever (diaphoretic). Also, yarrow warms up the digestive system (carminative) kind of like cinnamon does, and also helps create an ideal situation for digestion.