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In late October, we headed off to Hawthorn Farm, in Palmerston Ontario.

We were on a quest to harvest some Echinacea angustifolia, the medicinal variation of the very common "purple daisy" that frequents countless gardens and flower beds. Loved by butterflies, adored by humming birds, and quite pretty, it makes for a healthy human, too.

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