Saturday, January 1, 2011

Welcome to the Woodland Pharmacy

This website is designed to provide you with simple, effective descriptions of the various native and introduced plant species of Canada which posess particular medicinal, edible and practical functions that can be simply utilized by anyone. People's opinions are changing: plants are beginning to be viewed as sources of comfort and well being both physically and mentally, not just a pretty face. Come explore their chemistry, their lives, and how are worlds are forever entwined in a mutual and self sustaining relationship!

Since plants are living things, please treat them with love and kindness, as they are providing us with generous gifts of healing that ought to be respected! Only harvest modestly when the plant is abundant, and if it is rather uncommon, perhaps find a more widely available substitute. If you treat the natural world with consideration, it will provide you with a more successful experience and a hightened sense of satisfaction!