By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
June 15, 2008
BLACKSBURG — Goldenseal. Jewelweed. Motherwort. Dandelion.
The names of healing plants call across continents and through the millenniums, up and down the spine of the Appalachian mountains, echoing even today along the paths of a terraced hillside off Jennelle Road in Blacksburg where herbalist Lauren Cooper helps keep the old healing ways alive.
“They become like people,” Cooper said while planting some of the dozens of herbs she cultivates on her property and steeps or mixes into various teas, salves and tinctures for sale to a growing customer base at the Blacksburg Farmers Market. Read the rest of this story and view an audio slideshow of Cooper foraging for wild herbs…
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