Editorial Policy

How the notes on this site get made, said plainly.

One writer

Everything here is written and edited by Thea Lindqvist. I use software to check spelling and to look things up, as anyone does, but the making, the judging and the being wrong are mine, and so is the name at the top.

Made before it is written

A method gets made in a real kitchen before it becomes an article, normally more than once, and where a thing needs a season to prove itself it gets a season. If I have only read about a method rather than done it, the article says so in the open rather than implying otherwise.

The attempts stay in

When a batch failed twice, the article says twice and describes what went wrong both times. That is not a mannerism. It is the most useful part, because it usually tells you which of those two failures you are currently having.

What this site will not claim

This is the rule the whole site is built around. No article here will say that a plant, a food, an oil or anything made in a kitchen treats, cures, prevents or diagnoses a disease, because I am not qualified to say it and in most cases nobody is. Where a traditional use exists, it is described as a traditional use and named as such. Where evidence is thin, the article says the evidence is thin rather than reaching for a vaguer verb.

Two subjects get raised deliberately and often: that dose is what separates a herb from a problem, and that a plant can interact with a prescribed medicine. Those articles exist to send you to a pharmacist, not to answer the question for you.

No manufactured enthusiasm

Overrated gets called overrated. If a method only works with equipment most people do not have, or only in a dry climate, that limit goes in the body of the article rather than in a hedge at the bottom.

Independence

Commercial relationships, set out in the affiliate disclosure, have no say in what is recommended or how warmly. No brand, agency or network sees an article before it is published.

Corrections

Articles are revised when I learn something better, and the updated date at the top of the page reflects it. If something here is wrong, and particularly if something here is unsafe, write to hello@naturallywelltoday.org and I will fix it and say what changed, rather than quietly editing it and hoping.

Where I stop

Work here stays at the level of somebody with a saucepan, a set of scales and a bit of patience. Anything to do with what you take internally in quantity, what you put on broken skin, what is safe in pregnancy or for a child, and anything at all involving a prescription, goes to a clinician or a pharmacist, and the articles say so where it comes up.