COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho—Traditional naturopath and clinical herbalist Patrick Jones said that in the beginning, “there were weeds—and the war began.”
The weapons to fight the weeds improved over the centuries, he said, as “our troops were well-armed. Our resolve was firm.”
But the weeds were winning; it was time for a new strategy.
Clinical herbalist and traditional naturopath Patrick Jones talks about the value of medicinal “weeds” during The Modern Homesteading Conference on June 30, 2023. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times)
“We had to become one with the weeds. It’s like Darth Vader said to Luke—’Come to the Green Side’—or something like that,” said Jones to peels of laughter at The Modern Homesteading Conference in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, on June 30….