10 WAYS TO USE HERBS 10 HERBS FOR EACH USE

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2 Hello! Please Share This Report With People You Think May Enjoy It! When doing so, please forward it in its entirety, including our contact and copyright information. Or you can have them visit to download their own copy. Thanks and enjoy it! Whole Green Heart, Michelle Summer N. Wolf ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This publication may only be reproduced with credit being given to the author and source. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted or translated in any form, electronically, or mechanically, including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage or retrieval system without crediting Michelle Summer Fike as the author and including a link to For permission to reproduce the information in this publication for distribution, please michelle@wholegreenheart.com DISCLAIMER AND/OR LEGAL NOTICES: All information in this publication is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease and should not in any way be used as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other licensed health care practitioner. The author expressly disclaims any responsibility for any liability, loss or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a result of using any of the techniques, herbs, or recommendations suggested herein. Always consult with a qualified medical professional before starting to include any herbs in your diet or lifestyle to address specific health concerns you may have. 2

3 Hello and welcome to the Whole Green Heart community...where you ll be inspired to embrace healthy, herbal living so that you can enhance your life. I m Michelle (Fike) Wolf, and I m so excited that you ve decided to take the initial steps toward integrating herbs into your daily life. I've lived with them for over 20 years. Intimately. Carefully. Lovingly. I've grown, harvested, wildcrafted and tried (in food or medicine) literally hundreds of herbs throughout my lifetime and years in the herbal industry. Weeds, native wild plants, garden ornamentals, and exotic cultivated herbs - they all have much to contribute to our well-being, wholeness and natural health, and they are some of my dearest friends. Within this report, I ve included the 10 Ways to Use Herbs 10 Herbs for Each Use checklist. It explores ten common uses for herbs and the top ten herbs you can utilize for each. It s a great quick reference guide to some common herbs for common health issues. These are herbs I know and use in my own family and business. I recommend that you print the checklist and have it handy as you ll want to come back to it again and again! You'll find some herbs repeated often. Others are unique to only one or two key uses. I encourage you to use this checklist to start (or deepen) your inquiry and curiosity about the plant world. What jumps out at you? What calls your attention? What plant(s) seem to show themselves to you, outdoors or in the media, repeatedly? Find them on this checklist and start getting familiar with some of these incredible plants! I'm super-excited that you've made your way to me, my community, my information and to my deep regard for you and your life. Green blessings, Michelle xo 3

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS MY STORY... 5 TOP 10 HERB CHECKLIST... 8 FINAL THOUGHTS... 9 MEET MICHELLE

5 MY STORY Let me start by telling you a little bit about my story and where my Top Ten Herb Checklist comes from. In 1992, I was a graduate student in environmental studies. It's pretty easy to describe me back then - energetic, young, and pissed right off! Course work and academic life had gotten the better of me, left me hankering for something positive, something hopeful. I needed a glimpse into another world, where the complex global problems I'd spent the last years saturated in and despairing about could be seen from another vantage point. And where my compassion for humanity could be rekindled. I was filled with youthful anger about the state of the world and I didn't want to start drowning in that. I needed one heck of a happy summer! Michelle in Lytton, BC in 1992 where she first discovered the world of herbs and wild plants So, I followed an intuitive hunch, and left Toronto for my home province of British Columbia where I spent the next four months apprenticing at a wild, off-grid, organic herb and veggie farm. It was nestled high in the mountains above the Fraser River, surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest and the wild outdoors. The sun was hot, the work was difficult, and the hours were long. Black bears were our only close neighbours, and the creek water we drank gave me intestinal troubles (nice way of saying I had the runs) for over a month (that's a really long time!). However, it didn t matter, because I loved it there! The rhythm of life on that pristine mountain soothed my rough edges. That lifestyle offered a practical solution to many of the problems that were threatening the earth's ecosystems, problems that had begun keeping me up at night. There was no noise there except for the sounds of the birds and nature, no pollution, no lights at night except for our candles and the starlight. I slept in a converted candle-making shed, alone on the edge of the large garden, wildlife stirring around me every night. There was no media or radio (and this was before the internet and cell phones). It was located 40 minutes on a rough dirt road carved into the side of the mountain. It led to the three-car ferry that 5

6 could take us across the river to a tiny town, although some days the ferry didn't run at all. So, there were no trips to town for junk food or entertainment or mindless shopping either (I left the farm only six times in four months). It was a heady summer, a totally different life. It pushed me mentally and physically, and made me strong and beautiful. When I returned to Toronto I was a new person, and I finished my degree with optimism in my heart. The summer of 1992 was about that transformational experience, but it was also about herbs. The farm owners had a small sideline herbal business along with their vegetables and garlic braids, and I fell in love with everything herbal! I became voracious for herbal knowledge. I asked hundred of questions, read every herb book in their library, picked hundreds of bunches of herbs for their business and harvested extra herbs on my days off for my own use, and to take back to Toronto. That autumn, I made up a couple dozen recycled bottles with handmade labels, and filled them with some tea blends, bath grains, cooking herb mixes and a few herbal vinegars. All made with herbs I had dried at the farm. I didn't know it then, but this was the start of a business I would continue, develop and grow for the next 20 years! I moved to Nova Scotia in 1996 in order to expand the business and Pumpkin Moon Farm went on to become one of the largest herbal products companies in the Maritimes, morphing and growing as I grew my gardens, my expertise and my business knowledge. By the time I sold Pumpkin Moon in the spring of 2013, I had made a success of my business both financially and from a lifestyle perspective. I employed four other women and I mostly worked from home. I had had a busy internship program and offered workshops to share my herbal information. My profit margin was up around 43% (that's very good in this sector!), and I was also leading workplace education training on business best-practises for other agricultural, food and craft-based business owners. But my production studio wasn't the only place, or even the most important place, where product development and tasting/testing were going on. For those 20+ years, my own kitchen and my own family's health care were the testing grounds on which I built my business. How did it taste? How did 6

7 it work? How did it smell? How did it feel? How well did it keep? Each of these questions were first asked and answered in my own kitchen and bathroom, and that is why I founded Whole Green Heart. People just like you love home-based, practical, real, tried-and-true information. They are turning to nature more and more for their health and wellbeing, and want to deepen that connection, understand it more, and allow it to percolate up into their cells in more ways that are meaningful. I founded Whole Green Heart on my 20+ years of living intimately with nature and plants, knowing what products my customers use and love the most, knowing their health concerns and lifestyle pressures. It s based on having used herbs and plant-based products in every area of my life - from my laundry to my beauty routines to my children's health care to my interior design - for over two decades. Moreover, it was born out of my love of relationship with other like-minded people who want to connect their home and their health to nature, to the outdoors, and to ancient and modern ways of living gently on the earth. So, I'm super-excited that you've made your way to me, my community, my information and to my deep regard for you and your life. Green blessings, Michelle xo 7

8 TOP 10 HERB CHECKLIST 10 Ways to Use Herbs - Top 10 Herbs for Each Use COMMON COLD WOMEN S HEALTH MEN S HEALTH ENERGY & WELLBEING CHILDREN & PETS Yarrow Cayenne Boneset Ginger Garlic Echinacea Astragalus Elder Usnea Horseradish Raspberry Black Cohosh Stinging Nettle Wild Yam Crampbark Dandelion Eleuthro Vitex Motherwort Rosemary Hawthorn Raspberry Ginseng Dong Quai Saw Palmetto Stinging Nettle Dandelion Ashwagandha St. Johnswort Gingko Turmeric Stinging Nettle Reishi Basil Tulsi Maralroot Roseroot Ginseng Eleuthro Cleavers Fennel Chamomile Calendula Mints Dill Chamomile Catnip Lemon Balm Elder Rose RADIANT SKIN RELAXATION & SLEEP STRESS & ANXIETY PERIMENOPAUSE & MENOPAUSE COMMON WEEDS WITH UNCOMMON USES Stinging Nettle Yellow Dock Lavender Dandelion Calendula Red Clover Cleavers Chickweed Elecampane Echinacea Lavender Wild Lettuce Catnip Lemon Balm Valerian Chamomile Ashwagandha Hops Scullcap California Poppy Rosemary Roseroot Stinging Nettle Eleuthro Rose Ashwagandha Oats/Oatstraw Hawthorn Lemon Balm St. Johnswort Marshmallow Comfrey Hawthorn Vitex Motherwort Dong Quai Lady's Mantle Sage Ashwagandha Stinging Nettle Plantain Purslane Chickweed Dandelion Horsetail Burdock Elder Yarrow Self-Heal Evening Primrose 8

9 FINAL THOUGHTS Thank you for joining me as I shared with you this 10 Ways to Use Herbs 10 Herbs for Each Use checklist. I m sure you may be interested in learning more about how to grow, harvest, identify and use these herbs in teas, juices, cooking, body care, and natural medicine. I provide more details in my programs. Although this checklist is a great way to get started on your journey to integrating herbs into your daily life, please ensure that you look out for my free newsletter to arrive in your inbox once in a while (you will receive that as a bonus for downloading this free report). It is filled with an abundance of information and inspiration so that you can make the most out of your curiosity (and love!) of plants and natural health. CONNECT WITH MICHELLE Please find me on social media, through my newsletter, or through my programs. Hopefully, we can meet in person some day over a pot of herbal tea! Website: Facebook: LinkedIn: 9

10 MEET MICHELLE Michelle (Fike) Wolf was the founding owner for 20 years of Pumpkin Moon Farm, one of Nova Scotia's most successful herbal products companies, producing farm-based herbal preparations, hosting interns and workshops, speaking at events, writing for magazines, and sharing her love of herbs, native plants, wildcrafting, and organic gardening around the province and country. With her husband, Michelle now runs Whole Green Heart, a coaching and wellness company that inspires people through training, programs, and retreats. She is a soughtafter workshop presenter and motivational speaker, former president of Seeds of Diversity Canada, and a champion of the herbal arts for over two decades. Michelle teaches workplace education business programs and is a certified coach. She holds a Master's Degree in Environmental Studies from Toronto's York University and lives on seven acres of forest and wild meadow with her husband, children, and sweet beagle in rural Nova Scotia. 10