Comments on: Sweet Medicine: An Overview of Honeyed Healing and Sensory Delight

By: jason

jason — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:49:44 +0000

Hello,

Making a Balsam Root and False Solomons Seal honey last summer I was unsure whether I should remove the cut pieces of root or not once it had cooled down. I ended up straining the roots out of the honey but wanted to ask someone more knowledgeable than I am.

The resulting honey was also quite a bit less volume than before I brought it too boiling three times. Reading Moore’s recipe this surprised me as he said it might well expand.

This is a wonderful website!

By: Gwenevere Newell

Gwenevere Newell — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:42:30 +0000

Ooo…Darn, I wish I had found this post just a few weeks earlier for the Honeysuckle, mine down here in Ga have stopped blooming already! But thats ok! The elderberry has just started!
Thanks for the wonderful ideas and recipes!
-Gwen

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:16:46 +0000

Kiva – you ever do amaze me…I’ve been followin you off and on for a couple of years, and I’ve been selling infused honeys for almost three years now…but the combos you have here are unique and potent.

I found this post while searching for honeysuckle elixir! I have some soaking in ’shine right now…Much love to you and yours from the Appalachians!

~Amber (anchasta)

By: Dandelion Revolution » Vinegar - Medicine from the Pantry

Dandelion Revolution » Vinegar - Medicine from the Pantry — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:39:50 +0000

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By: andrea gutierrez

andrea gutierrez — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:41:44 +0000

seriously kiva, open up a etsy shop!

By: Sarah Head

Sarah Head — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:28:53 +0000

So many wonderful ideas and recipes – thank you, Kiva. I’m just off to try and find some more local honey from the farmers market held in the middle of the city this lunchtime. Now I know what to do with my abundance of mint!

By: Kiva Rose

Kiva Rose — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:08:14 +0000

Thank you all for your wonderfully kind comments. If you like this, you’re going to love the book

You could use Hawthorne, but it doesn’t have that distinctive taste at all…

I use the Beebalm leaves for medicine and food but not in the honey because the lack the distinctly floral taste that make the honey SO good.

By: Helena

Helena — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:54:24 +0000

Chokecherry trees are hard to come by here; unless they are on private owned land. I decided to grow my own. It’s still a baby and when my husband ran over it accidentally with the tractor, I thought it was lost. But it’s growing back nicely. Hopefully next year I can get a harvest to make some of the chokecherry heart tonic. Can Hawthorne be added or substituted.

The Bee Balm came in beautifully this season. Do you use the leaves as well in the honey? I know the leaves are used in Oswego tea

By: Karen Vaughan

Karen Vaughan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:38:02 +0000

Kiva,

This is a fabulous piece and I love the recipes. I especially like the wide-ranging combinations of flavors and odors in your preparations. And the teaching here is very special. Thank you.

By: Sidney

Sidney — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:31:50 +0000

Wow is right. Thank you, Kiva, for your grand obsession, and a blessing on it. Like April said, you have helped a lot of us move from the book to the kitchen.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:04:37 +0000

My mind is just reeling with all the information, Kiva. This is a great post. AND all those recipes. Thank you

By: Ananda

Ananda — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:40:30 +0000

Fantastic! I love this post by you Kiva…. so comprehensive and inspiring. Yum.

By: The Medicine Woman’s Roots » The Sweet Medicine Blogparty

The Medicine Woman’s Roots » The Sweet Medicine Blogparty — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:57:14 +0000

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By: April

April — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:40:45 +0000

I’ve already got my monarda honey infusing and dreaming about tasting it in a couple weeks.
Also choke cherry elixer from a wild cherry literally growing right outside my back door (funny, all these years and I never experienced the incredible smell of wild cherry bark!).
Now I’ve got to infuse some peppermint in vinegar in preparation for that Mint Sekanjabin!

Thank you Kiva for all this inspiration! I think I’ve learned more useful information from your blog in the last few months than the past 11 years of studying herbs.

By: Dreamseeds

Dreamseeds — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:14:34 +0000

W-O-W Love this Kiva