by David Kiefer | Mar 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thank you, Aronia. I didn’t do squat for months, maybe years, and then I arrived to the greatest harvest one could imagine. A marginal fence, and nettles plants as tall as a high school basketball player didn’t deter this native bush from kicking out berries on every...
by David Kiefer | Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
It started innocuously enough. “What a great flower year it’s been!” We were at a wedding reception, and a beautiful bouquet was in front of us. Collegially, we tried to identify the milieu. I blurted out “I think that’s a hydrangea,” though it might not have been...
by David Kiefer | Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
It was almost the classic herbal error. I had harvested the plant and boiled water. My mug was ready to go. And, at the last minute, I said to myself that I should do some quality control. Heck, I lecture medical students to be completely sure about a plant species...
by David Kiefer | Aug 18, 2020 | Health, Herbal tips
I was (am?) stressed during the quarantine. Very stressed. And I don’t think I was alone. When I asked colleagues, patients, friends, families, even strangers, they all agreed that the stressors during the quarantine hit them from many angles. Mentioning this to an...
by David Kiefer | May 28, 2020 | Health
Foundations of health during Covid As we as a society/culture/world enter into, and possibly out of, quarantine, the idea of “new normal” is being batted around. What was normal before the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be replaced in the short or long term with...
