"Where the name is bigger than the farm & no one seems to mind"
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” —Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
. . . Or winter sunsets in the case of Edgehill Herb Farm!
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly. What ails the human body and soul may be difficult to diagnose, but just as often there is a simple resolution. Black pepper for aching muscles, linden root and yarrow for high blood pressure, feverfew for migraines, ginger for motion sickness, watercress to ease labored breathing, vervain to quiet the pangs of unrequited love.”
– Alice Hoffman
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“That greeting is Aloha – love, I love you, my love to you. Good day – what is it more than an impersonal remark about the weather? How do you do – it is personal in a merely casual interrogative sort of way. But Aloha! It is a positive affirmation of the warmth of one’s own heart-giving. My love to you! I love you! Aloha!”
– Jack London
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“ … shallow stream at full tide a bed of sea-lavender, fallen from the glory of their prime, and …” – Harold John Massingham, Untrodden Ways, 1923
By Karen England, the Edgehill Herb Farmer.
“The flowers bow their heads
The sun she blushes
And she turns red
Leaves are begging trees to be shed
To fall beside you
Words are shamed to be said
And lips are craving to be fed
Butter’s not good enough for bread
When you come through I smelled your breath and it was
Sweet as berries and cream
It went to my head like
Good bubbly on New Year’s Eve
Your love I be could turn apples from
Green to red if you pleased
Come on and turn
All your magic out on me . . . ” – Berries & Cream Song by Amel Larrieux
