A cold-curing, wound-healing, beer-making, sage-flavored salad herb medicine plant!

One of 3 commonly found wound herbs growing on our living wall, along with Selfheal and Plantain. People have used yarrow for thousands of years, including Neanderthals (see yarrow video), people in ancient China, and up to the present day, Native American tribes and country people throughout Europe.

It’s an antiviral medicine, a salad, a herb, an aromatic flavoring, and one of many wild plants formerly used to brew ale before hops became our main brewing herb. Like Plantain, it has a strong partnership with fungi in the soil who help by providing nutrients in return for water and carbohydrate. There’s a hand-in-glove quality of fit between them, giving both just what they need.

Another partnership to mention is the one between yarrow and pollinating insects, who feed on nectar and pollen from yarrow flowers and in return pollinate these flowers, so they can produce seeds.