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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 17h

This cool piece covers different possible connections between baneful and beneficial fungi in our bodies from gut health to Alzheimer's.

"The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for."

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain

The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

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Robbie @robbietheroo.bsky.social · 11d

Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people

We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land

Listen. Learn. Act 🧡

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 11d

Native bees and wasps pollinating my fall-blooming native asters 💚

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 13d

Intro to Medicinal Mushrooms

Oct 26 @ 3-5pm EDT on Zoom
Registration closes Oct 23rd
$65 CAD | $47 USD

Learn more: thepoisongarden.com/product/clas...

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 13d

Upcoming Online Classes:

The Folklore of Fungi

Oct 11 @ 3-5pm EDT on Zoom
Registration closes Oct 8th
$55 CAD | $40 USD

Learn more: thepoisongarden.com/product/clas...

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 13d

Starting this October, The Poison Garden will begin hosting two live online classes per month via Zoom.

Class topics will be focused on plants and mushrooms, herbalism, gardening, ethnobotany, and botanical folklore.

Registration is now open.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 16d

Save 20% off all flower essences and flower elixirs this week only! Sale ends on Friday at midnight eastern time.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18d

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 18d

I put a jasmine plant in my living room and now it always smells like jasmine green tea in there 💚

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 21d

The seeds stay in the berries.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 21d

Gouche paintings of deadly foxgloves (digitalis sp.) by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, circa 1649–1659.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 24d

It's seed saving time. Wrapped up my atropa belladonna plants with cheesecloth so I don't lose the berries and all their seeds to the ground or the birds.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 25d

The fruits are edible when fully golden and taste like a sweeter yellow cherry tomato with a hint of tropical flavour similar to mango or pineapple. They can be used fresh, dried, or cooked, no need to remove the seeds.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 25d

Clammy ground cherry (physalis heterophylla) is a poisonous nightshade native to eastern N. America. The whole plant is toxic to ingest with the exception of the ripe fruits. There are 80+ physalis species in the Americas with many used as a food source by indigenous peoples.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Sep 9

An incredibly accurate atropa belladonna gouche painting by German artist Hans Simon Holtzbecker, circa 1649–1659.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Sep 7

One time I went to my rural village's halloween party dressed as a local man in a 3/4 zip sweater, puffer vest, jeans, a ballcap, and patchy facial hair and went and stood with a big group of them who were "too cool" to wear costumes and none of them noticed I was a woman for the whole party.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Went for a walk after dark to harvest some wild mint from a ditch and the moonlight was reflecting off the waterlily pads in the river, the frogs and crickets were singing a symphony, and the stars were hanging like celestial fruit in the cloud-like boughs of the white pines.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Sep 3

Newsletter Contents Summary:

* Everything now ships to Canada
* Seeds now only ship to Canada
* Now shipping to Ireland & the UK
* Tariffs on US orders are now in effect
* What goods aren't tariffed
* Tariff free print-on-demand coming soon
* Online classes coming soon

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's the newsletter with the full list of shipping updates for the USA, Canada, Ireland & the UK. There's lots of important info so please read all the way through to have any questions or concerns answered.

mailchi.mp/thepoisongar...

Shipping Updates for the USA, Canada & UK

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 31

Vegetables woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Shigenobu, 1866.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 31

My shipping to the USA will be temporarily paused this weekend while I manually update my table rate shipping now that I know what the new tariff fees are. Duties are paid by the seller before shipment so customers should not get unexpected bills. Thank you for your patience while I do the math.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 27

Illustration of poisonous amanita and false morel mushrooms from the culturally important "One Thousand American Fungi" by Charles McIlvaine and Robert Macadam first published in 1902.

I love that the little devil is reading a toxicology book.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 25

I don't want to log on to the internet, I just want to listen to disco snails on repeat while making arts and crafts.

(Art by D.D. McInnes, 2022)

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 25

In love with this painting of a frog in a copper pot by American artist Aaron Brent Harker from 1977.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm currently running a sale for 20% off everything in the apothecary until this Monday at midnight (eastern time). Stock up on favourites or discover new ones!

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