Heal Thyself Gardens

09/16/2025

08/30/2025

We are at this weekend, Stop By and say High! We have CBD and CBG flowers and products 🌱

08/09/2025

Bulk H**p Available! Dm us for details!

07/29/2025

Can we feed the world without destroying it?! Rosario Dawson’s award-winning film The Need To GROW shows the SOLUTIONS — and the real stories of the game-changing innovators behind them.

07/29/2025

07/29/2025

✨ Tea & Tarot Salon – This Friday
An evening of intuition, insight, and warm connection

Join us this First Friday for a quiet, soul-nourishing evening. Our Tea & Tarot Salon is a cozy, curated gathering for registered guests, each receiving a personal tarot reading in a tranquil, heart-centered space.

🍰 Light tea and sweet tidbits provided

🔮 Readings are a generous offering to the community by a skilled local tarot reader

🕰️ 6:00–8:00 PM

📍 Upstairs at The Cauldron, Middletown, CA

🌙 Space is limited

Slow down. Sip your tea. Hear what the cards have to say.

***Registration required***
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✨ Can't make it? Private tarot readings are available by appointment. Visit our Wellness Offerings page to learn more.✨

07/25/2025

THE REAL REASON WILDLIFE REHABBERS ASK YOU NOT TO FEED THAT BABY…

It’s not because we want to hog all the fun for ourselves, I promise. It’s because wild orphans aren’t typically healthy enough to digest food, when they are found.

Many are hypothermic. The body can’t even handle water when its core temperature is too low. All energy is going to crucial body functions in that state. If the body has to divert energy to digesting, - it will likely be fatal.

Many orphans are very dehydrated. Animals can’t digest properly when they are dehydrated. The body pulls water into the intestines to aid with digestion. If there isn’t any water to pull from, this could cause a domino affect of problems.

All wild baby animals require a specific diet and that diet generally isn’t available in local stores. Feeding the wrong formula could cause an upset stomach or worse.

All baby animals need specific amounts of formula calculated by their body weight. The percentage differs depending on the species.

Not every animal can drink from a bottle. The correct instrument must be used to prevent aspiration and over feeding.
Bring us a thin, dehydrated, hypothermic animal and we can probably save it. Feed that same animal before you bring it to us…there’s likely nothing we can do to bring it back.

So PLEASE, don’t feed any wild orphans that you have found this baby season. Keeping them warm is a huge help until you find a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

07/22/2025

07/22/2025

07/20/2025

Here’s a little bit about the difference between grocery store melons and locally grown melons found at farmers markets:

The melons found at the grocery store are LSL melons (long shelf life). This is because LSL melons boast excellent field holding, harvest, shipping, and storage traits.

Reduced harvest time and minimal rejection at the retail level make the LSL type the ‘workhorse’ of the industry. Because melon flowers are pollinated over a period of weeks, the fruit do not all mature at the same time. TSL(traditional shelf life aka western shipper types) melons are harvested 8 to 10 times over a period of 10 to 14 days. Because ESL and LSL type melons have longer shelf lives, they can be held in the field and harvested in fewer passes. LSL type melon varieties are usually harvested in 2 to 4 passes.

The LSL type melons are characterized by the fact they do not “slip” from the vine when mature but are instead cut off the vine when harvested. LSL melons are well-suited for extended transport and storage. They have very firm flesh which is really important for shipping.

The LSL melons reduce food waste due to less shrinkage in storage and shipping. However, with these benefits come challenges because they differ in flavor and aroma…LSL class melons lack aromatics (they don’t have the LUSCIOUS smell), they don’t have the beautiful golden exterior when ripe, and the ‘slip’ that melon eaters are used to. DON’T try to save seed from a grocery store melons.

LSL class melons are improving though as new varieties are bred. The ‘Ideal’ melons have improved flavor, aromatics, fruit color, and flesh freshness in LSL melons. The University of California-Davis’ study of the ‘Ideal’ melons found significantly more volatile organic compounds (aroma), remarkably higher and consistent Brix (sugars), and consistent flesh texture…BUT…

The melon most commonly found in locally grown situations are the TSL (traditional shelf life) Western shipper types. They are characterized by the fact that they “slip” from the vine when mature and have the traditional golden yellow exterior at harvest. These two traits are how you know when the melon is mature and ready to harvest. Compare them to the LSL types that typically retain a greener cast to the shell at maturity and need to be cut from the vine.

Western Shippers have been virtually phased out of commercial production and replaced with LSL melon varieties. Although the quality and overall consumer preference of the Western Shipper is better than the LSL types, they do not hold up as well in shipping and cost significantly more to harvest.

Although modern melon breeders are improving the LSL class melons to achieve the good looks and flavors of the western shipper class, if you want a truly spectacular tasting melon, you’ll have to grow your own or go to a farm or farmers market to get them!