BB SunGrown

06/10/2026

Hugelkultur!
Is a mounded garden bed using decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials. Many people us wood, leaves, food scrapes, grass, and more in their Hugelkultur.
Want to learn more! Come to our earth workshop on July 8th
https://forbidden-foliage.bbbiz.us/class/

06/03/2026

Exciting NEWS!
The workshop is set!
We will be doing an earth workshop July 18, with rain day August 1st
We will start at 11 am and end at latest 4:30pm

Find more information and register https://forbidden-foliage.bbbiz.us/class/

05/13/2026

Globe Artichoke
Cynara cardunculus

Uses:
• Constipation or Alternating constipation and diarrhea
• Known as a ‘cleansing remedy’ - folk remedy for hangovers
• Helpful for gout
• Helpful for IBS
• Helpful to aid in digestion- especially in a bitters formula
• Hypolipidemic properties- lowers both cholesterol and triglycerides.
• Protecting for the liver
• Helpful for Metabolic syndrome
• Lowering LDL cholesterol & total cholesterol
• Insulin regulation
• Inflammatory or hepatitis with fatty infiltration rather than viral hepatitis in the liver
• Might be helpful for bladder and kidney stones
• Arthritis & gout- gets rids of metabolic waste
• Nutritive - packed with powerful nutrients
• May aid with high blood pressure
• Animal tested and test-tube studies show artichoke extract impair cancer growth

Potential Uses :
• Atherosclerosis
• Viral hepatitis

05/06/2026

Globe Artichoke
Cynara cardunculus
The leaf is used in medicine for tea tincture or juice. We eat the immature head and the bracts as food.
Best to harvest before it flowers in the first or second year, but ok to harvest anytime

It has strong actions of
• Cholagogue - promotes an increased flow of bile.
• Digestive bitter - helps relieve gas, bloating, heartburn, and indigestion, as well as supports digestion, regulates appetite, and boosts digestive juices
• Antiemetic - helps prevent and relieve nausea and vomiting
• Hepatoprotective - protects the liver
• Hypolipidemic - reduces the level of lipids and lipoproteins (lipid-protein complexes) in the blood

05/03/2026

Sign up for the Derby Immune Mushroom class. This is an extra special one as it is the last "class" (there is a workshop in July being planned) till September so don't miss it!

We will take a little deeper dive into Reishi, Turkey tail, and Chaga while also having a surprise food and a meet and greet after. You can get to know me a little better as well as each other while enjoying the power of mushrooms!

There is also an extra special price If you have come to a class before and you and the friend come to this class you can each get the class 1/2 off that is only $10 each. So you and a friend can learn about mushrooms, enjoy a mushroom food, and get to know others interested in the same things you are for only $10!

Please register here https://forbidden-foliage.bbbiz.us/class/

04/29/2026

Don't forget the Mushrooms Overview Class is this Saturday! Register

Forbidden Foliage

04/29/2026

Arnica, Arnica montana
This is a great Topical plant for pain, bruising, sprains, arthritis, varicose veins, joint pain, inflamed insect bites, and tendon pain. It can go nicely with yarrow.

04/22/2026

Agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria
Is a soothing tonic & astringent. It has an affinity for the urinary system.
Use when there is irritation of the urinary tract, with a burning and/or ill-smelling urine.