10 Things You Can Do Now (depending on the season!)

1

Learn to identify three medicinal plants you don't already know that grow in your region and learn their uses.

2

Add at least one of these herbs to your garden or to pots on your windowsill.

3

Make a tincture, tea, syrup, or salve. Or make one of each!

4

Harvest and dry mint, lemon balm, calendula, nettles, or any other plant growing in your region.

5

Find a plant to sit with quietly each morning for a week; draw the plant.

6

Identify one healing skill you would like to have but don't, and find a way to learn it—perhaps by taking an herb class, or re-certifying in basic first aid or CPR.

7

Make an herbal first aid kit.

8

Organize local healers for emergency response in your community.

9

With medicinal plants grown in your region, learn how to treat one condition that you and/or someone in your family struggles with.

10

Join United Plant Savers.