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When Weeds Become Wishes: Embracing Nature's Gifts
Ever wondered what happens when a raccoon decides your carefully planted hoop house is the perfect new home? We're tackling this challenge with an unexpected ally: country music at full volume! This small farming dilemma captures the essence of working with rather than against nature, a theme that runs throughout our conversation.
The spotlight of this episode falls on the humble yet mighty dandelion. Far from being just a pesky lawn invader, this resilient plant offers remarkable health benefits that many overlook. Like our beloved hemp plant, dandelion suffers from widespread misunderstanding despite its incredible therapeutic potential. We explore how this tenacious herb works as a powerful detoxifier that supports your liver, kidneys, and elimination pathways. From its sunny yellow flowers to its deep taproot, every part of this plant offers healing properties—truly a gift hiding in plain sight!
Looking ahead, we're bubbling with excitement about our upcoming appearance at the Midwest Women's Herbal Festival. As sponsors through DNA Hemp, we're proud to help reshape the narrative around cannabis in the herbal community. Last year's experience of sisterhood, knowledge-sharing, and those unforgettable sauna sessions have us counting down the days until we return. We approach this gathering with both enthusiasm and humility, ready to learn from the wisdom keepers who've been walking the plant path for decades.
Before we sign off, we extend a heartfelt invitation to join us for Memorial Day events in Slinger, Wisconsin. Walking alongside our veterans and honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice connects us more deeply to our community and reminds us of the importance of coming together in gratitude and remembrance.
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Speaker 2:Oh, pictures yeah.
Speaker 1:Perfect, and the action is going here. I love it for the YouTube, all systems go. And then now we have a go live. We're on Cheryl's and which is on Cheryl's and we're on Cheryl's, and DNA, hey, and Sunshine and Bubbles, no pressure, and we're live. Yay.
Speaker 3:Again. Hey, yeah, baby.
Speaker 1:We're back, we're gonna quick sneak this one in. I feel like it's gonna be short, and sweet, in just the way we like it, just the way we are. Actually, I don't know if we're short, but Karen are there. Welcome to Sunshine and. Bubbles. Welcome to Sunshine and Bubbles podcast number six Woo-hoo.
Speaker 2:Are you doing a gasp?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. We got lots of fun things happening and lots of things percolating here on the farm and beyond how we're engaging with the community.
Speaker 2:We have a lot to share today, right, sunshine? Yes, we finally got some music down in the hoop house.
Speaker 1:Plant babies are jamming, which is hope we're hoping that will repel or ward off the intruder that has been in the hoop house digging up all of our bulbs or sleeping in our bins. I think he's nestling in there. Yeah for sure. The soil is significantly warmer than the air, so I feel like, whatever it is, it's making itself too cozy. I would be in there, I enjoy it in there, down there by the hoop house. Yeah, it's kind of wild. It's not happened to us before on the farm, at least to this degree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I feel like he's a criminal. He's chest-bassing, it's probably just one.
Speaker 1:It's like one raccoon, One big daddy right, yeah, that's like and a Joe Mondond, if I do, but we never had it before because Danny has always been on the tunes, right, he had the music going up in the barn and then we would have it down in the hoop house too. So I feel like maybe we're on to something here with the music. Yeah, so I would like to say it was one of those old school stereos.
Speaker 2:It really was with the CD player and everything right With the CD and it had CDs right there.
Speaker 1:And we it really was, with the CD player and everything right.
Speaker 2:With the CD, and they have CDs right there and, dude, we're in pretty good shape. I must say I didn't open it up and look through it, but I'm curious, I know. I'm like is there Tupac in there?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, oh yeah, the T-I-G Ace of Base Green Day is probably in there. I don't even know Nice nirvana in that and that, so it'll be cool to look through that one time and see where we were at, you know what was that?
Speaker 2:15?
Speaker 1:years ago, 15 years ago. No, I was on a mission sunshine. We're on with grace, not taste for years but we got. We got things to do, sit down. No time to look reminisce on my cd selection from god knows when right? Well, not today, but we will yes but I was so excited that I got one speaker going not the other speaker, not both, but I got one. That's all you need. It's all it takes is one. Take that rodent.
Speaker 1:We're turning on the music, either that or he's going to be like thanks, guys, all the way up. It's at 92.5 FM, so you better like country If he doesn't like country he's out of there. You can see your way out. The racket, the racket. I can't. You can be line dancing. Yeah, oh, my gosh. Well, he can definitely quit helping himself to all of our bulbs and seeds and scurrying up what we got going planting in there.
Speaker 2:My gosh. He's well fed, that's for sure. Yeah, it has been quite the nuisance.
Speaker 1:actually Not our plan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not our plan and not our. We're in his house, right.
Speaker 1:He's like ladies, this is I'm going to make myself cozy.
Speaker 2:Thanks, guys.
Speaker 1:As long as he's not going in the cell trays and all of our little hemp seedlings, because I don't know if I can deal with that damage, oh man.
Speaker 2:They're like this big now, no. No way you can eat them all, we'll get more.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, the German chamomile. Charge it to the game Calendula. Fine, not the hemp seedlings, not our beautiful babies All God's creations. Though we have a lot cooking in that hoop house too. I'm excited for all those edible flower baskets that we have. Oh, me too, they're beautiful. The green is just like, wow, yes, there's like 20 different kinds of edible flowers in there and we just sprinkled them in little fat sacks. What do you call them, fat sacks? Yeah, yeah, little fat sacks, what do you call them?
Speaker 1:Fat sacks, yeah, with a hope and a prayer, and they're coming up pretty darn good in there. It's about 80 degrees, 85 degrees in the hoop house. It's what Kelly's Sunshine's New Thermometer says, that she manifested batteries to put in there.
Speaker 2:That was pretty amazing, I was impressed. Three AAAs coming right at you. I'm like what, like what.
Speaker 1:okay, thank you, thank you, come again. Thank you come.
Speaker 3:Let's say a quick prayer before we get too far off into it just like a really short one of dear.
Speaker 1:Let's close our eyes and take a deep breath in, a deep breath out. I just want to say thanks. Be to our dear Lord, our Savior, for giving us yet another day to share our gifts and shine our light, and getting and letting us do these things here, engaging our community. We're going to be more thankful for this opportunity. In Jesus name, glory to be to God. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. That was our practice for the day. Hey-o hey-o. Worship team.
Speaker 1:Worship team here we hear sunshine comes. I planted the seed. I'm trying to recruit sunshine to sing with me at church and I'm trying to recruit Joe From. Cheryl's Club. Do it, do it. He's got a set of pipes at him I know I have.
Speaker 2:I think he would rock it.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, I heard it. Not our plan. You never know. All we do is keep planting seeds.
Speaker 2:Literally, I feel like that's what we do, Just like. How about this? How about this? A little germinate? Give some love, some water, some sunshine.
Speaker 1:And I hope I don't pray.
Speaker 2:I don't think they're going to keep growing, and it's meant to be, it'll be because we don't trust the process.
Speaker 1:Ooh, yes, it's the mantra for this podcast episode Trust the process, wait, no, we're going.
Speaker 3:Not our plan.
Speaker 1:Surrender to the process, have so much faith in the process. It's a process. It's the peach moonstone, I swear.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's who it is, it's the energy from this. She's laughing.
Speaker 1:I got the pee the pee pad pee pad which brings us to our beautiful plant ally that we have this week, and it is the bold, the fierce, the unstoppable. Even when she's trampled, she will keep getting up to rise again and spread her seed far and wide. Some say, see a weed, others see a wish. It's the dandelion. Yes, yes, rawr, taxa Rockum, officinal Right, or is that way?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Taraxa Rockum, that's a.
Speaker 3:Officinal Taraxa. Okay yeah, taraxa. Officinal Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That's the Latin name. Okay, going to stab at at that, giving it our big, best bet. But oh, not only is this dandelion seriously underrated, it reminds me a lot of cannabis, actually. And how misunderstood this herb is. This plant ally that's out there, that you know, we take for granted, see everywhere, and it's so abundant and want to you know people pay a lot of money to try to get rid of this stuff but it just don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1:That's, that's the tenacity. That is why it's a wonderful, wonderful, uh, anti-inflammatory people will use it for and even anti-cancer. You know you can't. There's not. It's backed by a bunch of scientific research I make no claims.
Speaker 2:No, I make no claims, but you may or possibly because it works with your body.
Speaker 1:It works with your systems to eliminate things that your body does not need, that it picks up along the way from your diet and free radicals and pollutants and everything else. It'll help with your respiratory system, your urinary tract and your digestive system.
Speaker 2:Who would have thought it detoxes your detoxifiers say that again. That's so good detox your detoxifiers with dandelion which is such a special gift.
Speaker 1:I mean because I feel like we can all use that a little bit extra support. And the fact that you can use this entire plant, from the flowers to the leaves to the roots, is pretty darn special. She's so giving, she's so giving, and you know it's kind of like, you know she's full forgiving.
Speaker 3:She's so forgiving, just like our god you know, it doesn't matter what you do to her.
Speaker 1:She's just gonna keep on giving to you. If you can change your perspective and elevate the vibration and work with nature instead of against her amen, you will be rewarded.
Speaker 2:You're feeling so best so like salads, right, just flip-flop these right in there.
Speaker 1:Great greens it reminds me of arugula actually the bitterness in the arugula, but not as bold and fierce as like kale. You know, it's like more chewable than that. So I think with a grape balsamic vinaigrette sign me up.
Speaker 1:Just work it in there. You don't have to have a whole entire salad, but you can just work it as part of your leafy greens. Yeah, and it's free. Free, yeah, absolutely free. Just be careful where you're sourcing it from, not on no sketchy roadside or a perfectly manicured lawn, because they probably spray it with pesticides and chemicals. So no, just where you're sourcing it.
Speaker 2:Yes, you should have little dandelion, capers, little buds it's a caper.
Speaker 1:I like that. It's a different kind of caper.
Speaker 2:There's a good one right there. I like that.
Speaker 1:It's a different kind of caper there's a good one, and Sunshine, she just so gently dug this up and we sprayed it off with the hose down by the hoop house. But check it out, these roots too. People will dry them and chop them up and store them, so that way you also have herb preservation for the winter. You can also dry the leaves too. The thing is, the flower just doesn't really dry well, it turns into a wish, yeah. So I would not recommend doing the flower. But how people preserve the flower is making that dandelion wine these years I never actually had any, have you?
Speaker 1:You know what I have way back in the day, and I remember it was, um, I'd be willing to try it again, though I'll tell you what. I'd try it again. I probably prejudged it oh easy, so I would. Uh, I can't. We can't say enough about the, the health benefits of this detoxifying diuretic. That means it increases your urine flow, so helping with that elimination, kind of keep on, keep her getting moving out out of your way. Your kidneys, your liver, your spleen help support them.
Speaker 2:And the solar plexus I mean hello, and I heard this is represents the sun, the moon and the stars. I forgot what the moon part was, though the sun, the moon and the stars. I forgot what the moon part was, though. The sun is the yellow flower, the stars were the wishes, but I forgot where the moon came in, probably the head.
Speaker 1:Maybe the pistol or the.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, at the end, when they're all gone.
Speaker 1:The style. Or like how it.
Speaker 2:She's good. She's good Maybe.
Speaker 1:We'll have to consult with our girly friends and see what exactly the energetics are. But I just love the dandelion and what she represents.
Speaker 2:And she also detoxifies the soil too. So where there's dandelions, that's really good soil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nature is an ecological way of telling you when it's ready to plant, and so it's seasonal too. As you can tell, they kind of come and go rather quick. They do receive themselves, uh, but, and they are perennial, so they keep coming back year and year and year after year.
Speaker 2:Um but I think if you catch them early enough too, they're not as bitter a little softer woody yeah, not as bitter and woody I could just munch on, I know it's not bad we're. We might be hungry too.
Speaker 1:Let me know we have no fun. No fun. Allowed all of it, allowed all of it all the time, because what else would jesus put us on the surface? Joy, joy, joy spread joy, Joy to the world and you know that energy exchange. I feel like we're excited because of the sweet dandelion and she's like helping us be strong and bold and courageous and vulnerable here right now, because that's all we have.
Speaker 3:Mm.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love this detoxifier. She's amazing. Yeah, and this is just. I mean, we were down there too, talking about all the other beautiful herbs that are in a lawn, like plantain and clover, that we can't wait to tell you about next time. Yes, but let's go on. We're on an adventure. We were just here packing up all of our goodies, our whole show offering hemp, full spectrum, whole plant medicine to the Midwest Women's Herbal Fest.
Speaker 2:Oh, I think it's the 16th annual, if I remember correctly. But yeah, it's a lot of fun. This will be our second year there. We're vending, but we're also going to submerge ourselves in all the yummy herbal goodness. I think you would agree with me that one of our favorite parts last year was the sauna of epic proportions.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about detoxifying, yeah in that sauna, I felt so clear, and the bush what was that?
Speaker 2:a willow?
Speaker 1:or oh, yeah, the leaves, yeah the leaves that she used to kind of open the pores, and we're gonna use those essential oils. Yeah, yeah, that would be cool, I'm excited. The sauna chronicles what we talked about the conversations and the sisterhood in that sauna.
Speaker 2:The songs we were singing. That was so sweet.
Speaker 1:Yes For me the Midwest Herbal Conference. The herbs are the bonus. I feel like being amongst our people and the sisterhood is so strong there and to be immerse yourself into that kind of womanly, nurturing, feminine forward environment was really eyeopening of what support can look like from like-minded people. I felt so supported.
Speaker 2:It's like there were so many grandmas and aunts and right, I just want to learn from them all.
Speaker 2:And they're like baby Christian, they're like teach me show me your way literally, and they're so happy to do it. That's what they live for. Like I know not everybody, but there were native um friends that were teaching us the natives way and then I don't know like what you would call it. But you know, everybody has their own style or their own take on herbalism, and to have them all unite under one tent it was amazing. I'm excited to see what we're gonna learn this year.
Speaker 1:We'll report back lots to report and we couldn't be learn. This year We'll report back Mm-hmm. Lots to report and we couldn't be more proud. Dna Hemp is actually a sponsor with the Midwest Herbal Fest, so we're really proud to be fierce lion-hearted, like our plant ally dandelion here today and, you know, rewrite the script and the narrative for cannabis and you know, show or or not show.
Speaker 1:I don't think we have to prove anything, I don't think we have to show anything, uh, but just, you know, to be part of the mix, honestly, just to be there is such an honor because it's like we made it like we're here and cannabis does have a place here amongst her other herb ally, friends and the synergy that's created there with all the beautiful energy of all the herbs. It just feels so right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was an honor to introduce, not introduce, obviously we were the first canadamus is yeah, but there were the first hemp fender people there.
Speaker 3:No right we were, we are the black sheep yeah, I don't know for the black sheep, though I feel like we were really uh accepted.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were accepted, and people came with uh curious questions and I feel like even if they had pre, you know notions, um, I think we kind of changed their mind a little bit. You know, like they didn't even I don't feel like it's top of their list because there is so much fuss about it. They're like there's a million other herbs we'll just use these, you know not. But no, like it's just as good, it's just as beautiful and just as important. Potential is out of the roof. Like oh, it was an honor to bring the cannabis there, like and see it real live. We're gonna bring the, the tribute plant that just took flight in the nursery. She just planted herself and started growing. So we're gonna bring that to show them. I know we don't have the flower crowns or anything like that, but we're gonna bring that just show them. I know we don't have the flower crowns or anything like that, but we're gonna work with what we got oh, we have, so much, we have, we are more than enough.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I feel like, yeah, just going there with a student mindset and asking questions and listening. I want to do a lot of listening Me too, on this trip of just sitting with the truths there and, yeah, with a humble heart, even though we might be seen as.
Speaker 2:The fun ones, the hippie hemp girls.
Speaker 1:Yes, we know how to do it. We can get down with the best of them. Oh yes, so we're going to go turn it up, turn it all the way up.
Speaker 2:I hope so, right as a humble heart, but grateful as well. No, but we come with nothing but love.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all of them. I'm sure it would be myself. Yeah, cheers to the dandelion tea Cheers.
Speaker 2:Also to baked tea with the dandelion.
Speaker 1:Do the leaves or the roots? I think mostly the roots are the most potent part of the constituents that help you.
Speaker 2:I feel like the leaves have it too you can certainly use it all.
Speaker 1:It's nice drying the roots so you can have it later. By all means, use it as much as you can fresh. Just put that whole thing in there, why not? It won't hurt you.
Speaker 2:So, abundant.
Speaker 1:It is part of the ragweed astrakoshe family Dandelion. Sorry, backing up to the dandelion, I'm still going on about her. She's so amazing. So you know people that are allergic to that pollen. They can have a reaction to the dandelion. Hence, maybe why she got a bad name in the first place, it's because maybe a few bad reactions and then people decided it just kind of sounds like a familiar story, isn't this?
Speaker 2:kind of like microdosing. Then though, right, like if you are allergic, then you just take a little bit to not yeah kind of like the honey theory right I'll drink to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll drink to that, yeah, yeah don't knock it till, you try it. Precisely, precisely, bringing Hemp, sponsoring the Midwest Herbal.
Speaker 2:Fest so excited.
Speaker 1:There's music and the food is amazing. The meals were just out of this world. I feel like if it was just for the food alone, I would. I'm coming back, but I mean it was just. The whole experience is so lovely. And we have a friend that we know is coming there.
Speaker 3:Nikki is going to be there. I have another hand-pulling girl.
Speaker 1:So it's a great recruit recruit. I love to see it. It's super amazing and uplifting. So just coming together with all these females that are so connected to Mother Gaia, our fellow Gaias, our fellow mothers, and they're in our hands up and singing our praises to Plantain Dandelion and Ham Motherwort, and everyone, all the other herb allies in between, and Miss Jane.
Speaker 3:Oh from.
Speaker 2:Four Elements. I didn't forget, but I forgot until right now. Yay, yay, I see you.
Speaker 1:Mary Jane. Miss Jane oh is the owner of Four Elements and she has serious goals with all of her Herbal knowledge and Compassion for the All living things. It's just really infectious. So I can't wait to, yeah, kind of rub shoulders with her and see how she's been. She's doing farm visits out there In, not Fredonia.
Speaker 2:Freedom.
Speaker 3:Freedom.
Speaker 1:Wisconsin and it's definitely something to go see. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Let us know We'll go with you. Yes.
Speaker 3:And before we bounce up on and down the happy trail to Almond, Wisconsin, where the Midwest Herbal Conference is, we want to invite, cordially invite you to march proudly with DNA, hemp and Cheryl's Club 175 down the main highway what is that?
Speaker 2:144 to the cemetery in Slinger, wisconsin, with our veterans get to stepping with the veterans, yeah, boom with our veterans. Get to stepping with the veterans, yeah, oh.
Speaker 3:Boom.
Speaker 1:Yes, and for the memorial, god bless those that made the ultimate sacrifice and their families that carry their legacies and their memories. It's really something to be shared together as a community and we would love anyone who is called to enjoy the parade festivities and hand out some trinkets and things to elevate the vibration here with our family.
Speaker 2:And if you don't want to walk, you can be part of the parade at the sideline. Meet you at the community park afterward. Nope, right after is the cemetery Memorial Day ceremony yes. Very, very cool. If you have not, you should.
Speaker 1:Yes, I feel like if you're coming to the parade, you have to come. Yes, go meet at the cemetery to do the ceremony, mm-hmm, and then, and then, and then.
Speaker 2:The community park.
Speaker 1:The community park where the pastor will be serving brats, hot dogs, sodas, chips and sodas and having a bags tournament. Show your skills all to raise money for our local veterans, who then dump it right back into the community and are always engaging with other charities and people in need, which is super amazing that they keep giving. It's like the veterans, it's like they're the soldiers, the troopers, the sergeants, the commanders that are seeds of hope, peace, love and light in our community and I can march to that.
Speaker 2:Amen, sister, I'll meet you there.
Speaker 1:And you should too. I love you guys so much.
Speaker 2:We gotta go, and I'm sure you guys do too.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for tuning in and checking us out. We sure love to share space with you. It's been truly a journey. I'm Bubbles, I'm Sunshine. Together we're Sunshine and Bubbles, and I love you. I'm sorry, I forgive you. Thank you, god bless. Ciao, ciao, okay, god bless, ciao. It was 2433. Do you turn it off here on your phone, or? Oh, yeah, sorry, oh, no, worries.