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Nature's Poison Ivy Cure"I've heard all the stories," says Harold Brown. "Weedwacking in shorts Brown is talking about poison ivy and he knows what he's describing. Born and raised and still a resident of Richmond where he grew up on a dairy farm, this "senior" citizen had a lot of battles with poison ivy when he was young. The remedy was always homemade and natural: dried Sweet Fern boiled into a potion. Now the Sweet Fern Remedy "Used by Our Family for Over 60 Years!" is being marketed by Brown and is currently being sold in sixty stores in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Called "Nature's Poison Ivy Cure," the product is harvested and packaged by hand in Richmond by Brown and comes with instructions on how to prepare and apply. "I gave it away for years," this one-man, "just me," company explains. Since last year, he has been selling it, and very successfully, too. The Indians used Sweet Fern for tea and for a variety of cures, Brown recalls. (One use, according to hearsay, is bug repellant.) "It seems to work on all kinds of rashes," Brown says, "but I don't market it that way." His target is the large seasonal poison ivy market, and since Sweet Fern doesn't grow in the south, he's hoping for maybe a year-round niche down there. In the meantime, it's poison ivy season right where Brown already has a loyal following in northern New England, right near where he lives only a mile from where he was born and grew up and spent the first 50 years of his life, where he is close to some of his five children and ten grandchildren, and where for a lifetime he can vouch for his product that, "It works!" For more information, visit the Nature's Poison Ivy Cure website or call | ||