General Note for Unavailable Tour Days 2025Read More
November 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th - Private tours at 10am, 11am, and 12pm. Only the 1pm tour is open to the public.
*We will be closed for Thanksgiving* There will be no tours on the 27th.
We will be open for tours on Black Friday 11/28, and on Saturday 11/29.
December 2025
Saturday, Dec 6th - Christmas Open House! Site is fully open to walk through from 11am-3pm with demonstrations and crafts. Please note there are no guided tours.
Wednesday, Dec 17th - Private tours at 10am and 11am. All other times available
Thursday, Dec 18th - Private tour at 10am. All other times available.
JLMH is closed for the last two weeks of the year (Dec 22, 2025-Jan 6, 2026). Tours will resume on January 7th, 2026.
AKA: Old man, lad’s love, appleringie, garderobe, Our Lord’s wood, maid’s ruin, garden sagebrush, European sage, witherwood, lemon plant
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Historically Used to Treat: Gas, cramps fever, eye problems, acne and blemishes, worms and childhood parasites, splinters and thorns, dry ulcers/old wounds, venereal disease, baldness, hysteria, pain, swelling, gangrene, urinary tract infections, jaundice
Other Uses: Aromatic bitter (similar to related wormwood), and/moth/snake repellant, nasal spray for allergies, odor neutralizer, yellow dye, sometimes used in absinthe instead of wormwood, said the help a beard to grow.
“It is a gallant….plant, worthy of more esteem than it hath.” - Nicholas Culpeper, 1653
CAUTION: Contains thujone, may be toxic in large quantities
Culpeper's The Complete Herbal (1653) - On Southernwood
A Brotanum, mas, fœmina.
Southernwood, male and female. It is hot and dry in the third degree, resists poison, kills worms; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves cold swellings, and helps the bitings of venomous beasts, makes hair grow: take not above half a dram at a time in powder. [230]
Culpeper also lists Southernwood as an herb that cleanses, ‘provokes the terms’ (causes menstruation) in women, and resists poisons [264].
