The Blog of Chloe Calendula

Hello, I am Chloe Calendula, an herbalist, gardener and aspiring writer/blogger. This website is a online journal where I share messages from our garden, the surrounding forest, as well as the arts and crafts I create.

Each day I spend mostly outdoors, tending to the ecosystem around me. As a creature of the modern age, a phone or camera is often near by and I use such technology to share my crafts here online. My goal is to inspire (myself and others) and spread the message that we are meant to live in harmony, with this world, with art, and technology too.

Garden of Sprouts 🌱 fenugreek and squash seeds have been surprising stars of the 2023 sprouts & microgreeens garden.

Algarroba Season :: at the recomendation of my Mom I am aiming to share more about the herbalism culuture of Argentina and what it is like living here too. Being honest I always feel a bit odd speaking with any kind of authority about Argentina. So, take this as the field notes of an amateur anthropologist and ethnobotinist.

☀️ Happy Solstice -- Feliz Solsticio ☀️ featuring a moment from the garden. Calendula flowers are very often associated with the Sun as they open when the sun the hits their petals and later close when shade is upon them. For the

My herbal apothecary :: for the most part I work with herbs that I grow & harvest myself. But, as I wanted to make a tea mix that is uniquely Argentine, I felt called to include some organic Yerba Mate and Stevia leaf from the bulk store where I work.

Passion Flowers :: A few days go I spotted this intricate flower which I'd been searching for since we moved to this land. I knew there must be passion vines growing somwhere because there are so many gulf fritillary butterflies here too.

Happy Full Moon :: from the white clover patch. Today's was a wonderful spring morning. Under the influence of the full moon and the soft morning sun I went out to harvest some flowers that I use for art projects (and sometimes tea).

Poppies & Calendula Flowers ~~ a couple of my favorites of spring popping up all over the garden.

In tandem with this blog I also write and print a gardening and herbalism publication called the Libra Gardener Zine, which is available for trade or for sale via my Ko-Fi Shop. If you also make zines or another tradable art and are interested in setting up a trade, email me at chloecalendula@protonmail.com.

As I grow as a crafter and creator, this blog also evolves and I update it regularly. Thank you for stopping by and checking in on my work — Chloe Calendula // Chloe Russick.