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🍄 Exciting news! I’ll be at Mycology Outside 2025 this weekend at The Ecology School in Maine — a full weekend of foraging, workshops, and mushroom education. @northsporemushrooms 🌿

If you’d like to dive deeper before then, check out my book Christopher Hobb’s Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide 📖✨

See you there!

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🍄‍🟫Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) is one of the most well-known medicinal mushrooms, valued for its immune-supportive properties and beautiful fan-like bands of color.

I’ll be sharing more about mushrooms like this one in person very soon! Join me at Mycology Outside 2025 at The Ecology School in Maine, September 5th–7th, for a weekend of mushroom education, foraging, cultivation, cooking, and more. @northsporemushrooms

Thank you for walking the plant (and mushroom) path with me! 🌿

Christopher Hobbs

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🍃Stinging Nettles – Nature’s Prickly Paradox

Stinging nettles may look intimidating, but once cooked they lose their sting and reveal one of the most nutrient-dense greens around. Per cup, they’re loaded with protein, calcium (more than milk!), magnesium, iron, potassium, and a powerhouse mix of vitamins and antioxidants. Traditionally used for energy, bone strength, allergies, skin health, and as a spring detox tonic — nettles are proof that sometimes the sting is worth it.

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🥣 Nettle–Potato (or Yam) Soup Recipe

Ingredients
• 4 cups fresh nettle tops (tender, before flowering)
• 2 medium potatoes (or 1 large yam/sweet potato), cubed
• 1 medium onion (optional)
• 4–5 cups vegetable broth or water
• 1–2 tbsp olive oil or butter (optional)
• Seasonings: salt, pepper, curry powder, or spices of choice

Directions
1. Sauté onion in oil/butter (optional).
2. Add potatoes/yam + broth, simmer ~15 min until tender.
3. Add nettle tops, simmer 5 min until wilted and bright green.
4. Season to taste.
5. Blend until smooth and creamy.

🌶️ Variation: Add coconut milk + curry spices for a silky, aromatic twist.

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🌿Meet Vitex agnus-castus

Known as chaste tree berry, Vitex has a long tradition of use in women’s health, dating back to ancient Greece and Rome. The berries support the body’s natural hormonal rhythms and have traditionally been used to ease PMS symptoms, support fertility, and help with the transition through menopause.

💡 How it works
Vitex acts on the pituitary gland, gently influencing the balance of estrogen and progesterone—helping the body restore its own natural rhythm over time.

🍇 Traditional Preparation
The berries are most often taken as tincture or capsule, though herbal teas can also be made.

🌱 A reminder: Vitex works gradually and is most effective when taken consistently over several months.

Have you used Vitex before? Share your experience below!

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Thank you for walking the plant path with me 🌿

Christopher Hobbs 

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Meet Pulsatilla 🌸

Also known as wind flower, this gentle remedy has long been used in traditional herbal medicine for emotional balance and physical relief.

Often called upon for mood swings, weepiness, and hormonal imbalances, Pulsatilla supports those who feel emotionally sensitive or out of sorts — especially during hormonal shifts like PMS or menopause.

It’s also traditionally used for respiratory complaints, sinus congestion, and earaches that feel worse in warm rooms and better in fresh air.

✨ A plant of softness, sensitivity, and support.

Have you ever worked with Pulsatilla?

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Meet the Silk Tree 🌸 (Albizia julibrissin) — also called He Huan Hua or the “Tree of Happiness” in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

This delicate, fragrant flower is more than just a visual delight — it’s known for its calming and uplifting effects on the spirit. Traditionally used to ease grief, anxiety, and emotional tension, Albizia is a gentle nervine that supports the heart and mind.

Both the bark and the blossoms are used in herbal preparations — think tinctures, teas, and powdered extracts.

Have you worked with silk tree before?

Thank you for walking the plant path with me 🌿

Christopher Hobbs

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