End of Summer and start of Fall are harvest times.  This is a good time to stock up on fresh herbs, berries, fruits and veggies for the winter.  You can dry, freeze, can, preserve all the local and hopefully organic produce available to you.

 

Herbs like dandelion leaf, raspberry leaf, red clover, rose petals, rose hip and mint can all be dried and used for teas.

 

Dandelion roots can be dug up in the fall and cut and dried for dandelion root tea.  Berries can be frozen or canned. Think about homemade preserves, pesto’s and salsas.

 

It is also a good time to start to prepare your supplement cabinet for the fall and winter.  If we start our winter supplements around thanksgiving, this will help to prevent winter viruses and keeps our mood and energy up during the darker and colder months.  I recommend that most families take a base of Vitamin D, Vitamin C, a fish oil and something green (liquid chlorophyll, spirulina, chlorella, wheat grass.). 

 

I recommend that the medicine cabinet have some things there in case of acute upper respiratory infections.  The first sign of sore throat or stuffy nose, you can start taking things like oregano oil, goldenseal, or antiviral tinctures.  So plan ahead and have some of these in your home already.