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 […]...

Daphne Singingtree at the herbal clinic singing original Mni Wiconi - Water is Life, with some volunteers, Cannonball, North Dakota Sept 2017...