Growing Resilience and Building Connections I just got back from the Okanogan Barter Fair in Tonasket, Washington, where I had the privilege of representing Zaníyan’s Growing Resilience project. It was a rewarding, eye-opening experience, and I wanted to share some highlights with you! At our boo...
Exciting News: I'm hitting the road for a book tour to promote my two newest books: Circle for the Earth and Eagletree Herbs Guide to Medicine Making. To make each stop even more meaningful (and fun!), I'm offering a free class called Herbs for the Zombie Apocalypse. It will cover essential emergenc...
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the NW Tribal Food Sovereignty Coalition gathering at Heritage University in the Yakama Nation, Toppenish, Washington. Representing the Zaníyan Center, I was deeply inspired by the experience. For those unfamiliar, "Zaníyan" is a Lakota word meaning a st...
My newest book Eagletree Herbs Guide to Medicine Making, is available at all the usual channels, both print and ebook. It is a how to manual on how to harvest, prepare and create herbal products from start to finish. It includes recipes from my 50 years of making medicines, as well as practical tips...
My beautiful niece Mytoka Petry suffered a horrific attack by eight dogs in Portland area on Monday, July 15th and barely escaped with her life, she lost her arm, her ear, as well as other injuries. Prayers are needed and if you can afford even a little help on her GoFundMe that would be greatly [&h...
On this Father's Day, I want to celebrate my incredible sons, Terran and Kloud (Alder), and my son-in-law, Victor, who exemplify what it means to be exceptional fathers. They are loving, devoted, and fully engaged in their children's lives in every way. All my grandchildren were born at home, and fr...
What a journey it has been! My writing adventure began on December 1, 2023, and except for a break to celebrate Christmas with family, I've been at it every single day. Transitioning from semi-retirement to this level of consistent work has been quite a shift for me. Through this process, I've gaine...
I didn’t know when I wrote my first novel that self-publishing would involve spending so much time on marketing. I read that successful indie authors spend 20% of their time writing and 80% marketing. One reason I closed my herbal product business was because I hate marketing. While I can handle F...
I was given a gift so extraordinary yesterday that it blew my mind. Janet Russell made me this incredible star quilt. Be sure to look at the detailed stitching of turtles and flowers on the four corners. The amount of time she spent was a true gift of the heart. Janet also volunteered to edit [&hell...
As I was getting ready for the powwow tomorrow since we will be giving out comfrey plants, I wanted to include some printed information about their medicinal uses, as well as uses for fertilizer, I could not find anything online I liked so I wrote something. Here it is in pdf form. Free to distribut...
As a lifelong avid reader, I've always been a bit addicted to books, often choosing to read instead of gardening or working. I read five to seven average-sized books a week. Mostly science fiction, with occasionally historical fiction and popular bestsellers. However, my favorite genre is stories ab...
Women Heals. This looks like a great event to celebrate International Women's Day. I am going to be talking about midwifery and plant medicine. One of the workshops is on Holistic Pet Care, something I know very little about. Sliding scale fee....
There is a lot of controversy about AI art these days. Microsoft has the new CoPilot, and many design programs like Canva and Adobe have it. There are many free and paid AI image generators online. They are becoming insidious; some are worried it will destroy the livelihood of artists. It might also...
I lost my domain name, daphnesingingtree.com because I forgot to pay the little amount it costs a year. I did not have a site for a couple of years, but now have created this on daphnesingingtree.org and will get back to posting. Lots of exciting changes going on so stay tuned....
Growing Resilience Summer 2021 Workshop Series Co-Sponsored by Zaniyan Center a nonprofit promoting health through plants and connection with the earth and EWOKS an integrated medical and crisis organization who hold workshops to learn new social and emotional skills, and collective trauma pro...
The first batch of Growing Resilience Garden Baskets went out today. Thank you Aleta Miller, who helped coordinate and deliver for the Eugene area Native elders and families in need. Each basket had garden and herb starts, mostly tomatoes, squash, sage, sweet grass, oregano, and some other veggies. ...
We are just getting everything ready to send out garden starts, seeds, container gardens, and cloth face masks to Native Elders and families in need. Working with the Siletz tribe locally and the Standing Rock and Pine Ridge reservations in the Dakotas. We had some wonderful volunteers this week and...
We had a guest speaker for the interns today, she is the owner of Crow Feather Farm and brought us some great plants. We got some astragalus, cinnamon vine, sea kale, and wapato that we are putting in the pond. Things look different around here now. Social distancing and wearing masks. She sha...
Facebook has banned me, no idea why, maybe due to being hacked, or the algorithms didn't like what I say about herbal medicine, growing your own food, and being prepared. My previous blog had not been updated in a decade so trying to get this up in a hurry as I did almost all my […]...
