First Ways

I took a stroll down my street with Greg Monzel, an Indianapolis-based herbalist, during one of Portland’s heat-soaked summer days this week and we gathered up some incredible ingredients, bottled them, and let them cook in a windowsill. Clockwise from left: St. John’s Wort flowers and buds, blackberry leaves, the tops of self-heal flowers, huckleberry leaves, and red clover flowers.