January is my favourite time to be handling the dried materials of last years growth as within these many paper bags of dried, flowered and spent herb matter is where the tiny miracles of the seeds reside, the next generation of each of these medicinal beings I have come to admire.
Seed “cleaning” as it is referred to is essentially rubbbing down this material on a series of different sized screens and separating the tiny little seeds from everything else, the many layers of leaf, shaft and fluff, until you are left with only the seed itself, ready to bring the next generation of its medicinal lineage towards fulfilment.
While this cleaning process takes much time and lots of repetition and patience, getting to the big bowlful of only the seed at the end, and then sharing that gift outwards to the community is deeply satisfying and feels like quite the important cycle to help connect.
