A bright garden border turned into a teacher. We start by honoring Kelly’s loss and then follow a thread that runs from marigold folklore and calendula medicine to the everyday choices that shape our health, our farms, and our clarity. Marigold—Mary’s gold—steps out of the garden bed with real receipts: triterpenoids and flavonoids for inflamed skin, antimicrobial support for minor infections, carotenoids for eye health, and a place at the table as a vibrant, edible petal. We share simple, hands-on ways to work with it—garlands for drying, teas and salves for winter, and kitchen ideas that turn color into nourishment.

From there, we zoom out to cannabis in Wisconsin. THCA’s strange legal status exposes a bigger question: are we chasing the high at the expense of the plant’s full healing? We lay out the entourage effect in plain language, why isolates can distort expectations, and how overregulation risks erasing small farms and patient choice. The stance is clear: protect people, legalize sensibly, and let folks grow their own medicine.

This conversation also gets personal. After two years without alcohol and finishing the Bible, I chose to set THC aside and lean into hemp-only support—clarity over fog, presence over escape. That shift runs alongside real farm life: UW–Madison test plots, compliance testing, a late-planted field that taught us hard lessons, and farm tours that reconnect product to plant. It all rounds out with the rituals that hold a season together—self-care tools, canning tomatoes, and the small practices that make health feel local and real.

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