Creating a Personal Materic Medica

Between making a home and creating family goals for the upcoming year - I have been rekindling my herbal interests. Somewhere amid reading Homegrown Healing by Christine Dalziel and Botanical Portraits by Ann Swan desire and inspiration struck. Then when I signed up for the Herbal Academy's free Herbal Materia Medica course, that inspiration took hold of my dusty nature journal turned personal 'materia medica' and set my pencils to action.

Paired with a lettering reference from the local library and I had all the tools I needed to begin.

My art class instruction from high school is a bit rusty, but the joys of sitting with the botanical subject and creating a personalized medica and gardening journal has been so healing. This creative is also helping my educational recall and giving me steam to continue to save for my next course.

Have you began your own personalized materia medica?