Hedgewych's New Line of Critter Care

Hey Folks  Check it out!
After many requests from our customers as well as our furry roommates, we have finally come out with a line of all natural wild herbals for pets and livestock.

Critter Care includes:

• flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats
• liniments for sore or damaged muscles and tendons
• arthritis rub for our loyal dog companions
• quick healer salves for the scrapper in the family
• Infection Fighters and more

All New!    Not on the website yet.   
Critter Care.    Ask about it!!

Hawthorne bounty from the Heart

It was a bountiful harvest of hawthorne this year!  Although not plentiful, they were beautiful, big and ripe, of excellent quality,and more than enough to meet our heart's desire and needs!  The hawthorne is important both to the physical heart and the emotional/ spiritual heart.


It is symbolic to the spring of young lovers,  the maypole dance was said to have taken place around the hawthorne tree, processions of young maidens carried branches of hawthorne blossoms, a symbol of their fertility.  O tree of Love! with its sharp dagger thorns and creamy white blossoms, representing both the pain and pleasure of love.

Collect the flowers in rain water,  infuse in sunlight for four days, and moonlight for four nights - this will heal a broken heart and cleanse negative emotions.  It was also used as a wash for attracting love.

Ah the blood red berries!  for the "physical"  heart. Just as the negative emotions are cleansed by the blossoms, so blood impurities are cleansed by the berries.  The druids used the berries as a strengthening food for the frailty of old age.  They are safe, tonic and strengthening for the heart, respiratory and nervous system, they dispell depression and brings light into the darkness of spirit, where grief is present.


In celtic tradition, Hawthorne was known by many names; whitethorn and mayblossom, pixie pear and cuckoo beads because of their association with the fairy folk. In Irish legend it was unlucky if not fatal to cut down or move a hawthorne tree, thus incurring the rath of the unpredictable wee folk.  Donald O'Brien learned this the hard way, when once he cut down a hawthorn growing on his land , he needed the money for his wife and child , however the very next day his baby disappears and his wife runs off with the money.  In great dispair he plants some twigs around a thyme bed and nurtures it into a great blossoming bush.  Soon after his child returns! (His wife never did.)


For young and old, for the heart both physical and emotional, hawthorne always brings relief.  Standing in the farmers field, under the sunny blue October sky, I can feel the ageold healing of this mythical tree well up from within, an unrepressible lightness of being.  The Tree of Love that never stops giving!

Hello everyone!

Fall has fallen in the beautiful Cowichan Valley and the squirrels that live in the chestnut tree are busy collecting nuts to get through the winter months.  We too have had a busy few months collecting, and gathering in the valley, up and down Vancouver Island, to make sure we have enough medicine to meet our needs and a growing number of clients who rely on us for healing.  The squirrels are a constant reminder that time is growing shorter!!  Just a quick update, enough said, can't spend all my time on these timewaste devices when there is more gathering to do.   

"dedicated to the wild lands and their folk healing knowledge'

The Essense of Wildcraft Medicine
is found in the wilds, and the life force that springs from Earth and Sky. It is an all encompassing approach to life that seeks to connect us once again to that collective earth memory alive in all things. We do not have to journey to another time and place to feel that connection, simply look within and without, to a solitary space, A WILD SPACE, an unspoken communication with the rocks, trees, rushing river, wind through the cottonwood, hearth fire sparks on a cold winter night, or the healing love of a small green plant, FOR THAT MOMENT WE ARE CONNECTED. This is the essence of wildcraft medicine. It is in this unspoken communication that transcends logic that healing takes place not in the laboratory's of mankind.