The Journal, page 2

One herb at a time. What it is, where its uses were written down, and who wrote them.

2 articles

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  14 September 2026podcast

  Rooibos

  A pea-family shrub from one mountain range, a red that is manufactured rather than grown, and the ancient tradition behind it that nobody has ever been able to find in the record.

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  07 September 2026podcast

  Gunpowder Green Tea

  A leaf rolled into pellets, a name that arrived four hundred years late, and the most repeated origin story in tea, which nobody has ever been able to source.