Granny Smith

We all know that famous saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” but have many of us considered why apples? Why not a banana a day or a kiwi a day? Your grandmother may have praised the benefits of apple pectin and told you to eat an apple when you were constipated. And it’s true, the fiber in the pectin is great at getting things moving again. But did you grandmother know apples were actually a superfood? From lowering cholesterol to improving gut health and preventing cancer, apples…

edition and rare tea available right now named the First Flush, Wonder and is incredibly full bodied with an earthy, fragrant aroma. You’ll really enjoy the light, velvety taste and I believe this is a tea to be enjoyed by all. Pair it with the Granny Smith Apple Pie, which they make with oat milk giving it a smooth velvety texture. These two together offer the perfect balance of crunchy, sweet, and that slight bitterness from the tea that will have your tastebuds begging for…

student protest took a different direction and adhered to mainstream tactics such as banners, chants and whistles. Although there was an element of Quebec strikes satirical side, as in the Ottawa student protest invited a group called Ottawa Raging grannies to perform who choose a satirical piece which was similar to the tactics used in…

Over the years I have experienced both severe anxiety and depression. When I found my self in the middle of an anxiety attack I always tried to get away from everyone and just close my eyes to imagine my safe place, the place where my anxiety and depression did not suffocate me. This place I envisioned for myself is the same place I still find myself going back to in my mind, even today for example when I learned one of my classes might prevent me from going to pharmacy school in the fall…

Lilly Bell Bazin was my grandmother. I love her with my entire heart and soul. She made my life have meaning those years the Lord blessed me to know her. No one would want to get on her bad side though! Grandma was a spitfire of a woman in her youth. I could write an entire book about her alone! She raised me. I owe much to Aunt Patricia and my mother Catherine, but my true love as a child was my grandma. My mother Catherine was hurt in a terrible accident at her occupation in a steel factory…

Appalachian folks did not have access to other alternative medication and were pushed to find solution for their own problems. In the encyclopedia of Folk Medicine, it suggested that “The answer lies in the eye of the beholder: to some it is an old granny with chicken soup stories, to others it is a heap of medical customs, taboos, superstitions and sometimes plain, sheer ignorance” (Collins, Folk Medicine). Folk medicine is similar to herbal medicine and what is also known today as alternative…