If you smell like a kale smoothie, can true health be far behind? Sometime near the dawn of the 12th century, the German Benedictine abbess and all-around mystical soothsayer Hildegard of Bingen became obsessed with the concept of viriditas, a word she stole from the Latin root for greenery but twisted into her own ecstatic definition.
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I Never Promised You an Herb Garden: 6 Green Scents for Summer
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