Green and Growing: Plant Folklore & the Magic of the Spring Garden

Spring in the Appalachian mountains is not just a season.It’s a medicine chest opening up.

This week we’re going into the garden and into the traditionof the granny witch, the herb woman, the yarb doctor, the neighbor lady who kept communities alive with nothing but what grew in the holler and what her mother taught her.

In this episode:

• The granny witch tradition who these women really were and why the mountain couldn’t survive without them.

• The plants of the Appalachian garden dandelion, willow bark, sassafras, foxglove, witch hazel, ginseng and more.

• Willow bark and the aspirin story how mountain folk medicine became modern pharmacy and nobody remembered the woman who started it.

• Honey in the mountain tradition from the kitchen shelf to the sickbed.

• Telling the Bees the Appalachian tradition of whispering death to the hive.

• An original short story What Della Knew about a granny witch, a willow tree and the knowledge that passes forward.

• The Green Hag vs. the granny witch what D&D gets wrong about the wise woman of the woods .

• A wisdom closer to carry out the door with you.

Referenced this episode: Roots Branches & Spirits by H.Byron Ballard

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