Laughing Lily Herbal Apothecary
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***The products and statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
The products and statements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illnesses. Athena Garcia is an Herbalist, Minister, Master Gardener, Environmental Activist and Mother. She stays active in the community by volunteering with the San Antonio Food Bank, protesting for equal rights, and fighting climate change. Athena received the 2017 Award of Appreciation by Ocean Conservancy in
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Forsythia Flower Honey Syrup The blooming bright yellow flowers of the forsythia shrub is one of the first signs of spring, but not everyone knows that the blossoms are edible! Make this forsythia syrup with honey for a delicious spring treat.
12/03/2021
Artist Recreates Feathers and Scales of Animals From Flower Petals and Leaves Mother nature has a way of beautifully repeating itself.
10/03/2021
Fermented Root Beer: Homemade Soda Made With A Ginger Bug Traditional homemade root beer is made with real roots, herbs, berries, and spices. This fermented root beer recipe is made with a ginger bug!
06/03/2021
300-Year-Old Botanical Illustrations and the Art They Inspire Today Botanical illustrations have been around for centuries. Take a look at this early form of documentation and the work of contemporaries who have expanded on it as an art form.
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Watch First Time-Lapse Footage of a Rare Moonflower Cactus Blossoming The rare Amazonian cactus blooms only once a year for 12 hours
04/03/2021
The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385-Million-Year-Old Tree Roots A trove of arboreal fossils pushes back the origin of modern forests and sophisticated tree roots
03/03/2021
How To Prune Raspberries For A Bumper Harvest Year After Year Pruning raspberries every year is essential for harvesting a bumper crop. Here's how and when to prune your canes depending on your raspberry variety.
03/03/2021
Crazy Plant Ladies Through the Ages: Women Naturalists, Botanists, and Horticulturists Who Made History - Garden Therapy Did you know that Emily Dickinson created a beautiful herbarium and Beatrix Potter dabbled in mycology? Read about some amazing historical 'crazy plant ladies' whose love of botanicals made an impact on the way we view plants and the study of plants today.
03/03/2021
Artist Uses a Chainsaw to Transform a Damaged Tree Into a Giant Hand Reaching Towards the Sky This is a different kind of "palm" tree.
02/03/2021
Purple Dead Nettle: 12 Reasons To Pick This Early Spring Edible Your one stop guide to identify purple dead nettle, and then figure out what to make with this healthy edible food.
26/02/2021
This 150-Year-Old Wisteria Tree Is the Most Beautiful One in the World This gorgeous tree looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale.
20/02/2021
Buildings Made of "Moss-Growing Concrete" Could Remove More CO2 and Air Pollution than Thousands of Trees Researchers have developed a “living concrete” that grows moss, lichens and fungi that could turn city buildings into giant air purifiers Spanish researchers have developed a porous, acidic concrete that acts almost like soil for moss, lichen, fungi and other drought-tolerant vegetation. They ar...
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Mini Trucks in Japan Are Being Transformed Into Enchanting Tiny Gardens Each exquisite creation proves that a flat bed can be a beautiful flower bed.
17/02/2021
Man Makes Adorable Acorn People and Sends Them on Magical Adventures in the Woods This guy makes elaborate “acorn elves” and photographs them in the most hilarious poses After moving to a small house in the woods, a Czech man and his kids started gathering chestnuts and acorns on their fall walks in the forest. To entertain themselves they’d glue them together in the […]
13/02/2021
Enchanting Bokeh Portraits Capture Rarely Noticed Beauty of Tiny Snails These snails were ready for their closeup.
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Honeybee Venom Kills Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells, Study Shows A new study out of Australia found that honeybee venom rapidly killed the cells for triple-negative breast cancer, a type of breast cancer that currently has few treatment options. The researchers also found that melittin interfered with the cancer cells' messaging system, which is essential for the...
Our Story
Well, the short of it is, I am a Folk Herbalist, Organic Gardener, Environmentalist and Mother. There's more to it than that though.
I have been interested in gardening for as long as I can remember. Since a small child I have had a strong connection to the Earth. Most of those long and hot Oklahoma summer days were spent helping my elderly neighbor in his garden. He taught me to care for and harvest vegetables by touch and smell. Even though he was blind, he still enjoyed gardening every single day. He appreciated each day and showed me that there really is light in a world otherwise filled with darkness. While I considered this just fun play time doing what made me happy, he was making lasting impressions that would later be the foundation of healing. I look back on my time spent covered in dirt, sweat and blisters and I smile. There is not a day that goes by that I am not grateful for those times. It was my brief reprieve from a place that I would spend the next several years trying to escape.
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