The growing season can provide many different medicines straight from your yard or garden, sometimes wild and sometimes cultivated. Here are a few of my favorites to make for our family from our farm: ...

When it comes to skincare, Calendula or pot marigold is one of the oldest known herbs. Pot marigold which is quite different from the ornamental marigold grows widely in the Mediterranean region, ...

Sometimes the stuff you buy over the counter just doesn’t hold a candle to the remedies your granny used to make. In the country kitchen at Stonehaus Farms in Martinsville, Connie is making calendula ...

Calendula is an herbal plant, and its flowers are used for preparation of medicines especially homeopathic medicines. There are many health benefits of calendula flower but it is best known as health ...

When the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors planted an herb garden at the magazine offices in the spring of 2015, our expectations were low. The weather stayed unnaturally cool, cloudy and soggy for weeks. So, ...

Question: I am reading an old book about herb gardening, and the author talks about "pot marigolds." What is a "pot marigold"? Is it the same thing as calendula? Are they annuals or perennials? My old ...

Product: Bitecare Gel, homeopathic medicine, $5.90 for a 1.5-ounce tube of gel. Key ingredients: Calendula officinalis, Echinacea angustifolia and Ledum palustre. The pitch: A natural way to heal ...