The Story Behind My Container Garden and Why These 5 Herbs Matter. Right now, sitting on my back step in Kingston, I am looking at a row of containers. Some are plastic, some are repurposed buckets, and some hang from crochet hangers. Every single one of them holds a little piece of the wellness traditions…
Intentional living after 50 always sounds like something you map out in a journal somewhere – a quiet, solitary decision. To be honest, it was always at the back of my mind, showing up in random bits and pieces. But the full truth of it arrived loudly, right in the middle of my birthday. After…
Herbal tea ritual. Those three words do not sound particularly revolutionary, and that is exactly the point. There is something deeply grounding about returning to simple things. Not dramatic things. Not trendy things. Not things that promise an overnight transformation. Just simple rituals. The kind that asks nothing of you except your presence and your…
The month of May has arrived, and I can feel it already – the confident woman energy! This is my season. There is something special about stepping into a new month with fresh energy, clear vision, and gratitude in your heart. Friday was the first day of May, 2026, and today I woke up feeling…
Most people see a dandelion and reach for a shovel. I see one and reach for my cup. This week, I am working with dandelion, both in my garden and in my body, and what it is already teaching me runs deeper than I expected. I recently got some dandelion plants. Some of the leaves…
What a Blue Vervain and a glass of water taught me about the kind of growth that happens when no one is watching. Blue Vervain found me before I went looking for it. I had just shared my Herbal Wellness Starter Guide – 30 of my favourite healing recipes gathered from years of intentional living,…
Intentional living changed everything for me, not in a dramatic, overnight way, but slowly. The way a plant pushes through soil toward light. This morning, I stood in my little container garden, watering my plants one by one. No rush. No noise. Just the quiet rhythm of water meeting soil, leaves catching light, and the…
I have been growing scallions in containers for a while now, and what started as three small pots has quietly become one of the most useful corners of my container garden. Recently, I gave one pot to my neighbour, because that is the thing about growing your own herbs. When you have enough, sharing comes…
I thought I knew what I was doing the second time around. After all, I had already figured out growing herbs in pots in Jamaica, or so I believed. I had one Guinea Hen Weed plant thriving in my backyard container setup, I had the rhythm of the tea, the routine of the care, and…
A small cutting of the Leaf of Life, that’s all it took to get started. I snipped a piece from a neighbor’s yard yesterday. No grand plan, no fancy setup, no special tools. Just a simple, deliberate step toward something I have been meaning to do for a while now: grow what I consume and…