For the last few weeks, I have been searching for red clover anytime we headed into the woods on an adventure. Growing up in Pennsylvania farm country, red clover was everywhere and was seen as an invasive weed and not a nourishing flower to harvest for medicinal purposes. Where we live in western Montana, red clover is much harder to find growing naturally.
In case you’re new to the amazing benefits the red cloverflower provides, click here to read about it on the Mountain Rose Herbs website. They do a wonderful job providing an overview of the health benefits ranging from heart health to hormone levels and more.
I’ve been in search of red clover because I am planning to make my own Women’s Tea like I found in our local herb shop, Meadowsweet Herbs. I went in there a few months ago feeling like my body and hormone levels were all out of sync as I’m still in my adjustment phase post childbirth last August. I was shown the Women’s Tea, which actually comes from Hill Botanical in Bozeman, Montana. I bought some, wrote down all the ingredients and began drinking it every day.
I feel like it has made a big difference already in my body. My hormones/moods feel more balanced and I didn’t have the full PMS symptoms I usually have. The gal working in the herb shop when I bought the tea told me she drinks a large glass of the tea everyday because it is so beneficial to her body. I totally agree and plan to keep drinking it everyday!
As I reviewed the ingredient list, I realized I already grow and can wild harvest a good portion of the ingredients. The only ingredient I may need to purchase is oat tops. Thus began my obsessive search for red clover!
Last week we headed up in the mountains to check on our “secret” huckleberry spot high up on the mountain face. I was thinking solely of huckleberries as we headed up the mountain so thoughts of flower harvesting were far from my mind. Since the huckleberries were still green, I was able to get huckleberries out of my mind for another few weeks!
As we headed down the mountain, I remembered I wanted to wild harvest some flowers.
By the time I remembered this and started looking for arnica, we were at too low of an elevation to find any good blossoms and I was disappointed. I then shifted to looking for red clover.
Just when I was about to give up hope I spotted a big patch off to the side of the dirt road and excitedly yelled “Stop, red clover!” to my husband. I jumped out of the truck bursting with excitement, grabbed a bucket we brought along just in case the huckleberries were ready and began harvesting.
This totally made my day. Unfortunately we were coming down from the mountain after 8pm which is post sleepytime for our little nugget. A few minutes after the truck stopped she woke up and began screaming. This put a bit of a damper on my red clover harvesting but I did manage to get close to two inches in the bottom of my bucket.
The next day I laid the red clover flowers out in a single layer on my metal rack to dry. Once they dry, I’ll store them in a glass jar. I’m excited to find more red clover to harvest on our outdoor adventures. Eventually once I have gathered all the ingredients for the Women’s Tea, I’ll share a post about my first adventure in mixing my own medicinal tea!
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What a fun story! Red clover is amazing and it constantly blows me away that beneficial plants like red clover and so very many others are growing all around us and yet many folks are unaware. What incredible resources we have right under our noses!
I totally agree Moonsprig! Everywhere I look in our gardens and out in the woods I’m constantly looking up plants to see which ones are edible and what I might be able to use them for. I just found a red clover plant growing in our yard and harvested two flowers-I was so excited!